More Details About Mars Mystery Rock

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:18AM from the getting-to-the-bottom-of-things dept.

First time accepted submitter GPS Pilot writes "Previous reports said the rock that suddenly appeared out of nowhere was merely 'the size of a jelly doughnut.' Now, a color image shows additional reasons for this metaphor: 'It's white around the outside, in the middle there's kind of a low spot that's dark red,' said lead scientist Steve Squyres. In the image, the object does stick out like a sore thumb amidst the surrounding orange rocks and soil. Its composition is 'like nothing we've ever seen before. It's very high in sulfur, it's very high in magnesium, it's got twice as much manganese as we've ever seen in anything on Mars.'"

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Mars is Boring by glennrrr · 2014-01-20 09:38 · Score: 0, Troll

I understand that exploration of Mars is important, in that eventually our existence as a species will depend upon having colonies there. However, it's just a lifeless place right now. Any random acre of Nebraska is more interesting than what the Rover gets to see. It just boggles the mind how eager everyone is to go along with NASA's hype about the mission, to the point here of giving time here to the event of a rock getting popped up in the air by the Rover and landing upside down. If only I could get that kind of free marketing for my own endeavors.