Weird 'Ball' Found on Mars

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Curiosity Finds a Weird 'Ball' on Mars

By Ian O'Neill
news.discovery.com
9-24-14

     If there’s one thing to be said for Curiosity’s mission on Mars so far, it certainly hasn’t been boring. Although the six-wheeled rover has taken thousands of photographs of Martian rocks, the rich diversity of Mars’ landscape has provided many beautiful examples of planetary geology and some geology that is downright weird.

Take this recent photographic example from the Mars Science Laboratory’s Mastcam camera that was uploaded to the mission’s photo archive on sol 746 (Sept. 11). While compiling a mosaic of images of the surrounding landscape, Curiosity captured a rather un-Mars-like shape atop a rocky outcrop.

There’s a perfect-looking sphere sitting proudly on a flat rock surface. It’s dusty, but under that dust it appears a little darker than the surrounding rock.

At first glance it looks like an old cannonball or possibly a dirty golf ball. But knowing that Mars is somewhat lacking in the 16th Century battleship and golf cart departments, there was likely another answer. Of course it’s nothing man (or alien)-made, despite what your brain might be telling you. It’s another fascinating rock. Yep, it’s a spherical Mars rock. . . .

Curiosity Finds a Weird 'Ball' on Mars

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NASA Says "It's Just a Rock," in Response To Alien Life-Form Lawsuit

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NASA Says "It's just a rock" in Response to Lawsuit Alleging Fungal Alien Life-Form Was Overlooked on Mars

By Julie Kent
www.clevelandleader.com
1-30-14

    Earlier this week, a man decided to sue NASA, alleging that the space agency had failed to properly investigate an object found on Mars, which mysteriously appeared in front of the Opportunity rover. NASA had concluded that the object was a rock, but self-described scientist Rhawn Joseph claims in his lawsuit that they did not properly examine the object to conclude that it was indeed a rock, and insists instead that it is a fungal form of alien life. Bob Jacobs, a spokesman for NASA, issued a statement responding to the lawsuit, in which he reiterates the space agency's position that the object is simply a rock.

Jacobs issued the statement to Popular Science, which read:

"This is an ongoing legal matter and we are limited in what we can discuss about the filing. However, NASA has been publicly sharing our ongoing research into the rock dubbed “Pinnacle Island" since we originally released the images from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity earlier this month. The rock, which NASA is studying to better understand its chemical composition, also was widely discussed during a Jan. 22 NASA Television news conference. As we do with all our scientific research missions, NASA will continue to discuss any new data regarding the rock and other images and information as new data becomes available."

So pretty much, NASA is standing by their research and contends that the rock is a rock and that there is no big cover-up designed to hide alien life on Mars from us Earthlings. . . .

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NASA Sued for Failing to Investigate Alien Life

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By Jason McClellan
Open Minds
1-29-14

     The plaintiff in a new lawsuit accuses NASA of failing to properly investigate an object on the Martian surface that he believes is alive.

In mid-January, NASA’s Opportunity rover photographed a mysterious object on Mars that had not been there when Opportunity photographed the same location just twelve days prior. Dr. Rhawn Joseph filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in a federal court on Tuesday, January 28 in which he requests that NASA “perform a public, scientific, and statutory duty which is to closely photograph and thoroughly scientifically examine and investigate a putative biological organism.”

NASA has already inspected the mysterious object. And as Popular Science explains, “For the record: NASA has identified it as a rock. A very special rock, with rare properties, even. But definitely a rock.” The organization believes this rock was simply kicked up by the rover.

However Joseph disagrees with the rock explanation. It is his belief that the “rock” was in that location the whole time. It just took time for it to grow enough to become visible to the rover. Joseph asserts in the suit that “The refusal to take close up photos from various angles, the refusal to take microscopic images of the specimen, the refusal to release high resolution photos, is inexplicable, recklessly negligent, and bizarre.” . . .

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Rock Star Ronnie Vannucci Shares UFO Encounter | CELEBRITY UFO SIGHTINGS

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By WENN
11-28-13

     The Killers star Ronnie Vannucci, Jr. was left shaken after spotting a Ufo on a road trip through Nevada.

The drummer worked as a luggage courier for an airline before shooting to fame, and he was heading across the U.S. desert on a job when he spotted a strange light in the sky.

The rocker was dumbstruck as he watched the mysterious laser-like object dip behind a mountain range before zipping up into the sky in a blinding flash of light.

Vannucci, Jr. tells Q magazine, "I was driving to the middle of Nevada on (Route) 95 North and I saw this red dot in the sky, almost like a laser pointer kind of red but it was bigger and it was doing all these motions like normal flight patterns and then it would zip down and go really quick. . . .

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'Mars Rat' Taking Internet by Storm | VIDEO

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By Mike Wall
SPACE.com
5-31-13

      A Mars rock that bears a passing resemblance to a rodent is scuttling across the Internet with gusto, even inspiring some fans to set up a Twitter account in its name.

UFO buffs spotted the purported "Mars rat" in a panoramic photo snapped in September 2012 by NASA's Curiosity rover. Zooming in on a portion of the image reveals what appears to be a rodent crouching between two rocks, its nose to the ground.

"It's a cute rodent on Mars. Note its lighter-color upper and lower eyelids, its nose and cheek areas, its ear, its front leg and stomach," Scott Waring wrote at UFO Sightings Daily back in December. "Looks similar to a squirrel camouflaged in the stones and sand by its colors."

In an update to that post, Waring raised the possibility that NASA flew the rat/squirrel to Mars secretly, as part of an experiment testing out the Red Planet's ability to support life as we know it. . . .

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Mars Rover Curiosity To Drill Into Rock for The First Time, Says NASA | SPACE NEWS | VIDEO

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By Mike Wall
space.com via The Huff Post
1-30-13

      NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is sizing up a target rock and flexing its robotic arm ahead of its first-ever drilling activity on the Red Planet, which should take place in the coming days.

The 1-ton Curiosity rover pressed down on the rock in four different places with its arm-mounted drill Monday (Jan. 27). These "pre-load" tests should allow mission engineers to see if the amount of force applied matches predictions, researchers said.

The six-wheeled robot won't be ready to start boring into the rock until it completes several additional hardware tests and other checks, which should keep the rover busy through at least the end of this week, they added. . . .

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Mini-Great Pyramid of Giza on Mars Intrigues Curiosity Rover Team

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By Pete Spotts
www.csmonitor.com
9-19-12

     NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is eying a target for the first tandem test of two instruments crucial to the rover's mission of determining whether its new home, Gale Crater, as well as the crater's central Mt. Sharp, could have hosted life early in the planet's history.

At 16 inches wide and about 10 inches tall, the target rock looks like a miniature Great Pyramid of Giza, with one face artisans neglected to maintain.

But it's just the ticket for testing the rover's ChemCam and and Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS), a complementary set of tools for determining the composition of the rocks and soils the rover will encounter during its two-year prime mission on Mars. . . .

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Elderly Woman Manhandled By Authorities in NASA Moon Rock Sting

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By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press
10-24-11

     LOS ANGELES -- The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny's restaurant in Riverside County.

But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 74-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.

Five months after NASA investigators and local agents swooped into the restaurant and hailed their operation as a cautionary tale for anyone trying to sell national treasure, no charges have been filed, NASA isn't talking and the case appears stalled. . . .

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