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“It could be a lot of things, but without some chemical information to back me up, I’d really hesitate to say what it is,” Aileen Yingst, of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., told reporters today (Jan. 15).
“I’m not trying to be cagey,” added Yingst, the deputy principal investigator for Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI. “I’m just trying to be clear that a light grain could be a lot of different things.”
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Of course it’s not a flower. It’s a wadded up Klenex dropped by Dr. Manhattan.
apostic on January 16, 2013 at 3:13 PM
All Martian exploration should be halted to preserve their habitat.
Flange on January 16, 2013 at 3:14 PM
Mineral deposit.
Good Lt on January 16, 2013 at 3:16 PM
Well, NASA bolloxed that the instant they landed their first craft on Mars, strictly speaking.
Logus on January 16, 2013 at 3:17 PM
It’s the very tip of a buried diamond pyramid.
Rocks on January 16, 2013 at 3:18 PM
If I gave my wife that “flower” for Valentine’s…
Looks more like the top, barely peeking out, of an SUV, the kind that destroyed the Martian civilization, and that caused their extreme rise in temp.
right2bright on January 16, 2013 at 3:24 PM
You think that’s a big deal?
Akzed on January 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM
freeze-dried twinkie. duh.
Fogpig on January 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM
SiO2
BKeyser on January 16, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Concur. You can see the little Mercedes-Benz symbol at about the middle right….
apostic on January 16, 2013 at 3:39 PM
It looks more like a bird dropping.
Tc0061 on January 16, 2013 at 3:45 PM
There would probably already be human footprints on Mars if not for all the war mongering sucking up all the cash — and NASA being redirected away from Space Exploration by Preezy of the United Steezy Barack Hussein Obama and now being dedicated to establishing some semblance of ‘self-esteem for Muslims’ due to their ‘contributions to science’ some thousands of years ago.
SD Tom on January 16, 2013 at 3:54 PM
Another example of the human mind’s ability to “see” signal when there’s only noise. Turn it at an angle and people will “see” something else.
taznar on January 16, 2013 at 4:15 PM
It’s hard to tell which is more ironic: the claim by terrorist apologists such as Barack Hussein Obama that the singular scientific contribution Islam gave to the human race was the invention of the number ZERO…
Or the fact that even that claim is a lie.
logis on January 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM