FOX News: Curiosity rover detects bright object on surface of Mars

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Curiosity rover detects bright object on surface of Mars Oct 9th 2012, 04:07 Published October 09, 2012 Associated Press LOS ANGELES –  NASA officials say the Curiosity rover has made its first scoop of the surface of planet Mars and has detected a bright object on the ground. Officials said in a news release Monday that they suspect the object might be a part of the six-wheeled rover, but they won't sample or scoop anymore until they figure out what it is. The Curiosity has already beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the planet. The rover landed Aug. 5 and is on a two-year, $2.5 billion mission to study whether microbial life could have existed on Mars in the past. Today's Mars is a frozen desert, but previous geological studies suggest it was once warmer and wetter.

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