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NASA Knows How Mars Got a Jelly Doughnut

Posted by timothy on from the elvis-is-alive-and-well-and-living-on-mars dept.

The Associated Press reports that the mysterious "jelly doughnut" shaped rock spotted by the Opportunity rover on Mars wasn't put there by aliens or by mysterious forces of Mars weather. Instead, the NASA has a simple explanation: one of the rover's larger wheels "broke it off a larger rock and then kicked it into the field of view." Of course, they would say that just to head off a lawsuit demanding an investigation into the real reasons.

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  1. Re:Learn to spell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Doughnut is the correct spelling. Donut is an idiotic American variant that most of the world doesn't recognise.