A Martian mystery may be over scarcely after it began: NASA on late Tuesday said that a formerly unidentified shiny, tiny object spotted on the Red Planet’s surface by the Mars Curiosity Rover is likely just a piece of plastic that fell off the rover and probably doesn’t pose any threat to the rover’s operations.
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