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Mars Rover Spots Metallic 'Arm' Sticking Out Of A Rock
here's another weird thing on Mars, and Nasa really doesn't know what it is this time.
You may remember the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover currently drilling rocks on the Red Planet already found strange shiny things and what was labelled a 'Martian Flower'.
But if anything, this is even weirder.
An image posted by Nasa on 30 January and taken with the right Mastcam on Curiosity shows what appears to be a 0.5cm metal spoke protruding out of a rock.
The strange sight - which looks a bit like a robotic arm - was noticed by imaging editor Elisabetta Bonora from Italy.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/07/mars-rover-spots-metallic-arm_n_2637990.html
longship
(40,416 posts)NOT!!!
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)I'm sure one can imagine quite easily what he'll say!
Berlum
(7,044 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)That's what she thinks it is, and it's a story LOL
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)It's space junk!
Baclava
(12,047 posts)crashing all over the solar system, can't they control them saucers?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 8, 2013, 12:37 PM - Edit history (1)
Anyone have a photo of the metallic "flowers"?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 8, 2013, 12:38 PM - Edit history (1)
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Hope they find all my lost wool socks, too....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Or one of Russia's?
Or ( ) one of North Korea's?
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Remember the crawling arm making that last grab at air?
warrior1
(12,325 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
warrior1
(12,325 posts)the picture of this thing is miss leading to me. It's seems a lot bigger in that picture. So it's about as big as this dash - Correct? How did Rover see this thing?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)woodsprite
(11,916 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)in high temperature volcanic activity. If I'm correct, many more of these will be discovered.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Or marsh gas.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Or, reflections in the atmosphere.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Being all thumbs, it scared the heck out of me.
librechik
(30,674 posts)and raise you liquid water sites
and forests
(NASA imagery)
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)I'll have to stay up late and listen to Coast to Coast AM to get the real story.......................
LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Bugs took care of that one.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)without labor or taxes.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Those things will run the bill up I tell ya. They contain unobtainium, very expensive.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Kinda like mixing oil in gas for a two stroke.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)The transmission has to buried there, too somewhere.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)it looked like a transmission shifter. I'm not that into cars, so I wasn't able to get much more specific than that, although I did think it was probably an automatic transmission rather than a manual.
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)KatyMan
(4,197 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Now forever lost in the robot graveyard in the sky......
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)make.
librechik
(30,674 posts)it's a part of the Martian Statue of Liberty, perhaps.
It could almost be something organic.
Another Mars WTF???? mystery I probably won't live to know the answer to...
randomelement
(128 posts)Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)It's oddly pretty whatever type of deposit it is.
On the Road
(20,783 posts)The rock eroded around it and left it sticking up, since it is a harder material. Erosion is mostly by wind, which polished the iron and left it shiny.
On earth the iron would oxidize very quickly, but free oxygen on Mars is extremely low. That may be why it looks so artificial.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Let's blow the fucking thing up!
What does it contribute to the solar system anyway?
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)I don't want to wake up to this...
Blow it up!
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Silent3
(15,220 posts)So to speak.
DireStrike
(6,452 posts)No worries, probably just one of these: