Curiosity suspends sampling, may have dropped a bit of itself
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Image from Curiosity showing the bright object in the foreground (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
360 degree panorama taken by Curiosity on October 1 (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Image from Curiosity showing the bright object in the foreground (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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NASA’s unmanned Mars rover Curiosity took a pause in its activities after spotting a bright object. As yet unidentified, it was spotted while Curiosity was collecting its first soil samples. Fearing that the object might be a part of Curiosity itself that fell off, mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California has suspended Curiosity’s exploration until the object is identified.
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