Mars rover Curiosity detects bright object

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:45 pm

Mars rover Curiosity scoops, detects bright object

Probably a rover part. Or the tip of a buried starship.

choff · Post by **choff** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:50 am

Martian periscope, they're checking out the rover from the hide-e-hole.

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:11 am

Technologically-advanced anaerobic sandworms was one of my next choices, after Illuminati-planted fake artifact.

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:57 am

Chem-Cam close-up. Sandworm with a shark-like mouth and small pair of eyes on the nose.

GIThruster · Post by **GIThruster** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:13 am

Looks like they found life! Here's the 400X close-up:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... Ag&dur=886

paperburn1 · Post by **paperburn1** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:27 pm

we spent how much and nobody put a macro lens on this thing??!??

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:25 pm

Note the non-random arrangement of the "boulders". Apparently it was interrupted while building a cabin.

CaptainBeowulf · Post by **CaptainBeowulf** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:53 pm

Suggestion now seems to be that it is a piece of plastic that fell off the rover itself:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... rover.html

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:47 pm

Sloppy. You'd think they could keep their sound stage clean. Apollo never had these problems.

paperburn1 · Post by **paperburn1** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:17 pm

TallDave wrote:Sloppy. You'd think they could keep their sound stage clean. Apollo never had these problems.

They had a larger budget and the old school Protestant work ethic to help. by the way has anybody seen my tie clasp?

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:06 am

I recall that Opportunity spotted a flattened spot in the soil ... had some characteristics of a large footprint, and found some metallic cloth. Both turned out to be from their bouncing air bag landing.

Later I think it encountered its heat shield.

I'd be unsurprised to find a few fragments of, say, some frangible bolts.

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:15 pm

TallDave wrote:Sloppy. You'd think they could keep their sound stage clean. Apollo never had these problems.

Any NSF regulars know the story behind picture 2 ( 1R403751100EFFBWGXP1311R0M1.JPG )?
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index. ... c=4075.765

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:04 am

Dang, that looked just like a fusion reactor power unit and two Neeko'rak landers on a snowy horizon.

But it's just the underside of the Opportunity rover seen through a fish-eye lens.

Opportunity :: Rear Hazcam :: Sol 3105
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... 11R0M1.JPG

zbarlici · Post by **zbarlici** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:18 am

get CSI on this! They will figure it out for sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

djolds1 · Post by **djolds1** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:11 pm

DeltaV wrote:Dang, that looked just like a fusion reactor power unit and two Neeko'rak landers on a snowy horizon.

Neeko'rak landers?