http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/mars-rover-curiosity-shiny-object-16938331
Just one small pic... But interesting They reported it.
they are slowly but surely conditioning the masses with little information like this.
standard method that has probably been used many times before.
and the information will progressively get more and more serious over the years to come.
then, eventually, the truth will come out when the world is more ready.
thanks for the share.
Yes, I am sure They are. Why They hid it for so long I don't understand. Should have started "conditioning" Us five or more decades ago.
OR someone didn't use enough threadlock on the masthead camera access plate number two upper left fastener..
The object is the exact same color as the rover..eh fruitbat?
Le
Point taken, FB. 'Course ANY metallic object would likely be similar in color...
Quote from: Amaterasu on October 09, 2012, 08:32:56 PM
Point taken, FB. 'Course ANY metallic object would likely be similar in color...
LOL!
Well have to ask A51 if it could be a part of Frankenstein Phil up there... :o
Le
(http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16225.jpg)
10.08.2012
View of Curiosity's First Scoop Also Shows Bright Object
This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. The object might be a piece of rover hardware. This image was taken during the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012), the same sol as the first scooping. After examining Sol 61 imaging, the rover team decided to refrain from using the arm on Sol 62 (Oct. 8). Instead, the rover was instructed to acquire additional imaging of the bright object, on Sol 62, to aid the team in assessing possible impact, if any, to sampling activities.
For scale, the scoop is 1.8 inches (4.5 centimeters) wide, 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) long.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Full Res (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16225.jpg)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/Vault/Object_001.png)
Quote from: Amaterasu on October 09, 2012, 08:32:56 PM
'Course ANY metallic object would likely be similar in color...
Based on what? :o
They found gold!!!!!
Quote from: zorgon on October 09, 2012, 08:39:05 PM
Based on what? :o
The fact that most metals used in machinery are silvery and shiny to some extent...
Nah they are messing with you... They are just using conspiracy nuts to keep their program alive and feeding us a tidbit....
They will announce soon that it fell off the lander. Afterall NASA spews metal, plastic and other crap all over Mars
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45keith_laney/04images/Mars/Opportunity/1P158365677RAD40CLP2582L257C1.JPG)
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45keith_laney/04images/Mars/Opportunity/1P156949170RAD4075P2357L257C1.JPG)
Cosmic Litterbugs
Mystery Solved...sort of:
http://news.yahoo.com/bright-object-mars-actually-plastic-curiosity-rover-200931416.html
Quote"The rover team's assessment is that the bright object is something from the rover, not Martian material," mission team members wrote in an update today. "It appears to be a shred of plastic material, likely benign, but it has not been definitively identified."
If its not a conspiracy nut...could it be a conspiracy bolt?
Le
Quote from: Littleenki on October 09, 2012, 08:14:32 PM
The object is the exact same color as the rover..eh fruitbat?
Le
It's not, the object is translucent.
(http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00062/opgs/edr/ccam/CR0_403005421EDR_F0050104CCAM01062M_.JPG)
(http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00062/opgs/edr/ccam/CR0_402995770EDR_F0050104CCAM01062M_.JPG)
It looks like it could be a piece of plastic, and, as someone said in another forum, it's too clean of dust to be something that was already on Mars.
Quote from: ArMaP on October 09, 2012, 11:33:01 PM
It looks like it could be a piece of plastic, and, as someone said in another forum, it's too clean of dust to be something that was already on Mars.
A passing Martian could easily have dropped it. They might have been trying to work out who had a primitive rover on Mars. Or it could be rubbish dropped from a Grey beam ship that stopped off to collect water.
Be serious ArMaP. :P
Translucent?
Then it would truly be out of place...and new to Mars.
In the nasa shot it does look silver..but it could be crystal or possibly a lichtenburg feature...
Who really knows?
Quote from: Pimander on October 10, 2012, 12:42:47 AM
The aliens who dropped it. :P
So nasa hires aliens to drive its rovers now?
:P :P
Quote from: Littleenki on October 10, 2012, 12:51:25 AM
So nasa hires aliens to drive its rovers now?
:P :P
It's called outsourcing. ;D
Apparently NASA are going after private contracts. The Greys keep crashing their saucers so perhaps they might want to hire the Shuttle Fleet. :o
Quote from: ArMaP on October 09, 2012, 11:33:01 PM
It looks like it could be a piece of plastic, and, as someone said in another forum, it's too clean of dust to be something that was already on Mars.
Well the magic dust devils on Mars cleaned the Rovers spotless many times that allowed them to function so many years. Its either that or the secret astronaut corp cleaned them
Take you pick you cannot have it both ways
Quote from: ArMaP on October 10, 2012, 01:54:25 AM
It's called outsourcing. ;D
Hehe, the next rover should be named Romney then!LOL!
Methinks this lady might have been to blame for the rover cleaning.."No,No,No,No..NASA, I clean better than anyone!, more lemon Pledge please..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmbcNqC6TSk
LOL! couldnt resist.. :)
Le
As far as I know the rovers with solar panels have a special electrical dischage program that blasts all of the dust of the panels. How it gets off the rovers, you will have to ask the cleaning lady. So static electricity cleans the panels....Deuem
Quote from: zorgon on October 10, 2012, 02:35:26 AM
Well the magic dust devils on Mars cleaned the Rovers spotless many times that allowed them to function so many years.
No they didn't, they removed most of the dust but they were far from spotless.
Quote from: ArMaP on October 10, 2012, 09:51:39 PM
No they didn't, they removed most of the dust but they were far from spotless.
Your gonna make me prove that huh? :P
From: http://news.yahoo.com/curiosity-rover-digs-shiny-particles-mars-141427893.html
QuoteThe Curiosity rover had dumped out a recent sample of Mars dirt after spotting shiny particles inside the hole dug by the shovel-like scoop on its robotic arm. Mission scientists were concerned that the bright material might be debris from the rover itself, so they ordered Curiosity to toss the Mars sample as a safety precaution, mission managers said in a statement.
As it turns out, the bright particles are actual Martian in origin, they added.
OhhhhKayyyyy.
so they are gonna rebury the shiny objects?
Reading Yahoo news today and they are now up to 3 shinny objects with the first one being from the rover. One was found in or just below a fresh scoop of soil?
Maybe silver in those hills....I guess the story does not end yet...
Deuem
nope silver would have been black from billions of years of corrosion.i know of no silver shiny metal.it is either our stuff or its alien .there is no other answer that im aware of.
Silver ore is usually green when it is found; however, iron pyrite or as commonly called 'fool's gold' is shiny in sunlight but fades when shaded...
seeker
great answer seeker.
i totally forgot about pyrite.
They are inside a huge crater, could it be diamonds or glass. The Russians say their crater is full of diamonds.
Deuem
It's a bit of Beagle! hehe