Mystery rock appears in front of Mars rover

[rdunk]

A not exciting but interesting bit of news from Rover Opportunity on Mars. A small rock wasn't there, and a few days later it is there!.   (Mars Sol day 3528 vs Sol day 3540)

By Ian O'NeillPublished January 17, 2014 Discovery News

After a decade of exploring the Martian surface, the scientists overseeing veteran rover Opportunity thought they'd seen it all. That was until a rock mysteriously "appeared" a few feet in front of the six-wheeled rover a few days ago.

"It's about the size of a jelly doughnut," Squyres told Discovery News. "It was a total surprise, we were like 'wait a second, that wasn't there before, it can't be right. Oh my god! It wasn't there before!' We were absolutely startled."


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/17/mystery-rock-appears-in-front-mars-rover/?intcmp=features

[08rubicon]

   Used to work on a farm, rock does not look like a jelly doughnut to me..

[ArMaP]

   Used to work on a farm, rock does not look like a jelly doughnut to me..

He said "the size of a jelly doughnut", not that it looked like one.

[ArMaP]

This is what it looks like in (near) true colour.

[ArMaP]

A not exciting but interesting bit of news from Rover Opportunity on Mars.

Maybe it will turn out to be more exciting than it looks.

It would be funny if this time it wasn't a rock. 

[burntheships]

This looks as if it could have been dropped
by an old silver miner....hehe.