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Rover Cracks Mystery Of Mars Spheres

Posted by timothy on from the blueberries-my-foot dept.

Ant writes "CNN has a story about scientists having learned the composition of the mysterious sphere-shaped objects scattered across the crater floor at Meridiani Planum, the landing site of the Opportunity Mars rover."

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  1. hematite huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    so this conclusively prooves the existance of hemogloben on mars...i think mars is just one giant red blood cell

  2. For those who didn't RTFA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they are indeed martian rabbit turds.

    1. Re:For those who didn't RTFA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, they are Beagle droppings

  3. No, No, No... by Trikenstein · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows that they're SandKing eggs!

  4. I smell a geek... by irokitt · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Now all we have to do is figure out what made the rocks in the first place and how long the water may have been involved in the 'soakings.' What a fun time!"

    I detect no true signs of social life...

    Kudos to the rover guys, NASA has failed to produse Martian news like this since before I was born.

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