Big News From Mars? Curiosity Rover Scientists are Mum For Now
According to Joe Palca of NPR, Scientists working on NASA's Curiosity rover have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. However, they'll have to wait before making an announcement because they want to make sure their results are true. Is this going to be one for the history books or just a false alarm? For now, we'll have to wait to see. In time we'll find out what's got the Mars rover scientists so excited.
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Thanks to Robert Provin for finding this very interesting news item and pointing it out to me. <br><br>Thanks, <br><br>Guy Pirro <br><br><br>
Hmm, what could it be? Well, I've already read the story of the origin of earth rocks on Mars. We've had Mars rocks on earth in the form of meteors so it's a case of the roles reversed with earth meteors on Mars accounting for earth rocks on the red planet. Could the big surprise be confirmation of the latter?
<br>This is a nice portrait of Curiosity on Mars. But who took it?<br><br>Answer: It is a self-portrait.<br><br>But wait... There is no arm extending from the vehicle to hold up a camera.<br><br>Rel Answer: NASA's Curiosity rover used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture a set of thumbnail images stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait on Oct. 31, 2012. MAHLI is mounted on a 7-foot-long robotic arm, but because of the way the images were taken and stitched together, the imager and the extended robot arm are not visible in this mosaic.<br><br><br><br>
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