Scientists are trying to work out how a rock mysteriously appeared in images taken two weeks apart by Nasa’s Mars rover, Opportunity.

rest of article: Space oddity: Mystery of the moving Mars rock - Telegraph

a better view:



from "Doughnut Rock" Added to Mars's Mystery Object Hall of Fame

In my scientific opinion, they should command the rover to poke it with a stick.

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I second that motion, and while they're in the vicinity keep an eye out for similar looking pieces. Though if it is part of a shattered meteor, could be the pieces will be widely spaced.

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Can the rover lift a leg?

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It's part of a meteor that landed elsewhere and broke up, and that's where this piece finally fell to rest.

Then the rover leg thing happened.

That's not the same piece of Mars.

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It's probably Rover Garbage.

You gotta pitch in to clean up America ^%% I meant Mars....

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That is a bit odd. MY guess is if it is actually a rock and not something that fell off the Rover then it's a meteorite fragment.

- Peter.

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Mars has no grassy knolls....

I agree with Kenny... poke it with a stick.

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it was a ricochet.

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The article states that NASA scientists believe it’s something that fell off the rover’s tracks, but I prefer to conjecture that “they” (whoever “they” are,) are messing with us.

Martian road-kill!

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