Curiosity Rover leaks pic of one of Mars' balls

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NASA's Curiosity Rover has sent back a photo from Mars of a perfectly round object that looks like a ball.

But sad news for conspiracy theorists: No one has been playing golf on the Red Planet.

Instead, experts told Discovery.com they believe the ball is an example of a geological process called concretion - when a mass of minerals embeds in a "host" sedimentary rock.

NASA said the sphere, which was photographed Sept. 11, is likely one centimetre wide.

It's not the first time a rover has photographed a similar phenomenon on Mars. In 2004, the rover Opportunity relayed images of a small grouping of concretions that looked similar to blueberries.

The existence of the spheres suggests that area of Mars had groundwater at one point, the scientists said in a paper in Nature in June 2004.


Sun News : Curiosity Rover photographs 'ball' on Mars
 
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Locutus said:


NASA's Curiosity Rover has sent back a photo from Mars of a perfectly round object that looks like a ball.

But sad news for conspiracy theorists: No one has been playing golf on the Red Planet.
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Well duh! Of course not! That's clearly a baseball.

Instead, experts told Discovery.com they believe the ball is an example of a geological process called concretion - when a mass of minerals embeds in a "host" sedimentary rock.

NASA said the sphere, which was photographed Sept. 11, is likely one centimetre wide.

It's not the first time a rover has photographed a similar phenomenon on Mars. In 2004, the rover Opportunity relayed images of a small grouping of concretions that looked similar to blueberries.

The existence of the spheres suggests that area of Mars had groundwater at one point, the scientists said in a paper in Nature in June 2004.


Sun News : Curiosity Rover photographs 'ball' on Mars
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Blah, blah....scientific mumbo jumbo to disguise the fact that it's a baseball! 8O

LOL
 
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SLM said:
Well duh! Of course not! That's clearly a baseball.

Blah, blah....scientific mumbo jumbo to disguise the fact that it's a baseball! 8O

LOL
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It ain't got no stiched seams. It's gotta be a ping pong ball. Dem Chinese prolly whacked that puppy right into out space and it made its way to Mars.
 
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Cliffy said:
It ain't got no stiched seams. It's gotta be a ping pong ball. Dem Chinese prolly whacked that puppy right into out space and it made its way to Mars.
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Too big for a ping pong ball. Maybe a bocci ball? Croquet ball?

I bet she's got some heft to her swing!
 
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