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Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by Enlightenme1111
I respectfully disagree. If I were a scientist working on this mission, I would find out exactly what happened and where the part fell from, for many reasons. Not one scientist working on this mission would consider your imagination of how they would treat this.
I can't even believe you're being serious. "If it continues they will look into it"? Really?
The rover engineers DO have ideas of what the piece may be, based on the looks of the material, but give the fact that the object so so small (barely 2 cm long), it would be hard to find out EXACTLY where it came from, even if it IS a broken piece of the rover (rather than -- as I said above -- a foreign piece of debris left over from building the rover, or a piece of the sky crane).
Say, for example, that it is a piece of plastic sheathing that goes around a cable bundle. Considering the piece is so tiny, there could be dozens of places that could have come from -- and some of those places may not even be visible using the cameras.
I'm sure there is a team of engineers right now tasked with trying to determine out what the object was. That doesn't mean they will ever know for sure what it is, but they can make educated guesses.
edit on 10/12/2012 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ScientificUAPer
But hey, at least I didn't go yelling that NASA were lying when they were being perfectly straight about it.
Originally posted by Enlightenme1111
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I can't even believe you're being serious. "If it continues they will look into it"? Really?
Originally posted by Enlightenme1111
If this is a part from the rover, we would already know exactly which part. There would be pictures of the area of the rover where the part broke off from..
Originally posted by zilebeliveunknown
Apparently there are more shiny stuff, made by rover crossing over "rocks" wich are full metalic.
What are those?
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Mars Rovers Find "Best Evidence Yet" of Water - silica news.nationalgeographic.com...
Originally posted by dcmb1409
Might be silica which the Spirit rover uncovered dragging a bad wheel and has a whitish color.
Mars Rovers Find "Best Evidence Yet" of Water - silica news.nationalgeographic.com...
And further North some time ago the Phoenix lander scooped up Martian soil and detected perchlorates or salt.
Mars Sprinkled with Salty Mysteries
www.space.com...
With so much dust its hard to tell.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by ScientificUAPer
But hey, at least I didn't go yelling that NASA were lying when they were being perfectly straight about it.
I'm always fascinated by people who go on and on about NASA being evil and hiding things and lying about things while at the same time using images from (who?) NASA to prove their point. They're taking images of another planet. They're the only pipeline. If they didn't want you to see something, you would not see it.
Originally posted by zilebeliveunknown
Apparently there are more shiny stuff, made by rover crossing over "rocks" wich are full metalic.
What are those?
Reference image (better quality)edit on 12-10-2012 by zilebeliveunknown because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by PrestonSpace
They give you the illusion of transparency because we are paying for it, but nasa is anything but transparent or we would be seeing what they see over a live stream. The technology is there and would probably be easy to implement.
Originally posted by 3xil3
Originally posted by toocoolnc
Looks like a condom..
LMAO
this would explain why no life found on mars