Mars Curiosity Rover Digs Up Unknown Shiny Objects

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover dug up more strange shiny objects on the top of Red Planet after it left out a scoopful a week ago.

Mission researchers initially believed that the shiny flakes were in the Curiosity’s landing module, or perhaps in the rover itself, reviews Space.com.

Now, however, mission managers mentioned the yet-unknown shiny objects are really Martian in origin. Curiosity is presently gathering up Mars grime within an area known as “Rocknest,” when preparing to provide its first examples of Martian rocks to a set of instruments on its body.

The Mars Curiosity rover scooped its first sample on October 7, but stopped following the shiny object is discovered. NASA authorities mentioned on Monday October 15:

“Other small bits of vibrant material within the Rocknest area happen to be evaluated as debris in the spacecraft. The science team didn't wish to put spacecraft material in to the rover’s sample-processing systems.”

The Huffington Publish notes, however, that whenever a brand new review, rover researchers think that the fabric is really a Mars phenomenon rather than litter from Curiosity. NASA authorities mentioned following the second review:

“Confidence for continuing with the 3rd gathering took it's origin from new assessment that other vibrant contaminants in the region are native Martian material. One factor for the reason that consideration is seeing some vibrant contaminants baked into clods of Martian soil.”

Curiosity’s third scoop from the Red Planet’s grime is going to be processed through the Small Cooper-sized rover’s Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument, also called CheMin. A later sample is going to be deposited within the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, nicknamed “SAM.”