Thursday, October 18, 2012

MYSTERY PARTICLES ON MARS REVEALED BY CURIOSITY’S JUNK





MARS HAS ALSO POLLUTED WITH CURIOSIT’S JUNK, what news to hear

All over world to hear this news and thinking a mystery is occur on MARS.  I hear this news and see internet, NASA clarified this news that mystery particle is a Curiosity's waste.


 
Sifting through soil on Mars, NASA’s rover Curiosity paused to take a picture, and exposed its own bad behavior. The shot included a bright object lying in the Martian dirt, and a closer look suggests that the rover is guilty of littering: it appears the object is a piece of plastic wrapper that has fallen from the robot.
The discovery has put a twist on the rover’s current mission to scrub out its soil scoop and take its first sample of Martian dirt for analysis. More bright specks of unidentified matter in the soil at first thought to be from Curiosity shedding, may actually be Martian in origin, and although what they might be are a mystery


After the first scoop-and-shake revealed the unexpected object, Curiosity took a quick break to examine the find. It then got back on course, taking a second scoop of soil on October 12. But the hole Curiosity dug also contained bright particles, forcing the team to dump the load due to worries that the rover was picking up pieces of its own robotic debris.





 

Further scrutiny now suggests that at least some of the unidentified particles are in fact native to Mars. Images show light toned particles embedded in clumps of excavated soil, implying that they couldn’t have been shed by the rover. Now

NASA is currently preparing to take a third sample from the site as well as more images, which should help them figure out whether the bright bits are unwelcome litter or something worthy of delivery to the rover’s on-board lab equipment.