KT Kingsley

Its pathfinding algorithms messed up, I guess.

Brenda Archer

The setting for that looks like it's in the Southwest somewhere, it's playa and not frozen dust.

DanielRavenNest

Void

they landed the rover in my back yard?

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DanielRavenNest

My previous house was on an unpaved road, and this is very much what it looked like up close - a mixture of fine dirt and gravel. I imagine a geologist can look at this and immediately say something useful about the parent rocks.

Note that one of the cameras on the robot arm can get *much* closer, like millimeters, to where we will be seeing mineral grains.

Samantha Fuller

For many years NASA has been dishonestly adjusting the color balance on its images, portraying mars as redder and more hostile looking than it is.

Now they have to pretend they are surprised or describe browns with a slight reddish tint as Red.

Micaela Darkwatch

From that site.... Aurora Code 2012

I guess we now have to watch out for August 24th to August 29th... or something.

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Samantha Fuller

On a less serious note/

Richie Waves

Richard Hoagland is a looper that thinks John Carter is a true story and that there's huge alien bases on the moon. Just sayin..

Joshua Nightshade

Samantha Fuller ain't met a conspiracy theory he doesn't spooge for.

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Adam Zaius

Actually there is some truth to it - most of the optical sensors on the previous rovers have been tuned to spectrums other than those the human eye sees (because things like infrared are more useful for determining mineral types). So NASA has had to do some adaption on them to make false colour images from them.

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Joshua Nightshade

Don't encourage it.

Micaela Darkwatch

We're NASA and we know

Void

get yo geek on! =D

Tyche Shepherd

This is rather sad ... The Twitter account of N165 - The Martian rock which Curiosity is going to break up with it's lasers

https://twitter.com/N165Mars

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DanielRavenNest

I think it's great. You can now insult people with "You are so boring that a rock on Mars has more Twitter followers".

Micaela Darkwatch

Khamon

had, alas, had

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DanielRavenNest

Rock is still there, and now has a cool piercing to impress it's friends with:

Samantha Fuller

If curiosity is ready to do spectrography on vaporized rock then it is ready to do so on the methane in the atmosphere to determine the carbon 13/14 ratio and thus definitively determine if it is of organic origin.
NASA is most certainly sitting on the most important piece of data.

Void

technically that isn't definitive, only highly suggestive

Khamon

Highly suggestive translates to headlines that state "Scientists Find Fungal Life on Mars: analysts recommend selling Agro Dutch Industries (NYSE:AGRO)"

Richie Waves

Well we know the largest volcano in the solar system is on mars, so that's were my money is re; methane. Mars has an extremely weak and spotty magnetic field, so there should still be pockets of it's molten core still working.