NASA thinks that a mysterious unidentified shiny object the Curiosity rover spotted on the Red Planet’s surface is just a piece of plastic that fell off the rover, the agency explained in an update late Tuesday. Here’s a close-up view of the object as taken by the rover’s Chemical and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, a laser-equipped camera. The image has been annotated by TPM. Original copy here.
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