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Rover Curiosity Discovers Australia-Shaped Rock On Mars

Posted by Soulskill on from the let's-send-our-prisoners-there dept.

astroengine writes: "NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun science operations in a new area of study nicknamed 'the Kimberly' after the Western Australian region. But in a new image uploaded to the Mars Science Laboratory raw image archive, it seems 'the Kimberly' is a little more Australian than mission managers originally thought. As spotted by @CoUdErMaNn on Twitter, Curiosity's Navcam photographed a rather interesting-looking rock formation just in front of the rover. The rock, which appears to have been formed through some erosion process, will likely fascinate geologists for some time. But at first glance the rock also appears to take the shape of Australia."

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  1. Aha! by DRMShill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Proof that Australia exists! Your move atheists.

    1. Re:Aha! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

      Atheist response: Now that an Australia-shaped rock has been found on Mars, it becomes clear that Australian Christians should stop worshiping the yet-unproven Christian God and start worshiping the Martian rock that 1) could have created Australia in its own image, 2) and - unlike the Christian God - provably exists.

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  2. I'm trying by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Funny

    But no matter how I squint my eyes I can't see Australia in that rock.

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    1. Re:I'm trying by mikael · · Score: 3, Informative

      They're doing it all the time at "abovetopsecret.com"

      Light source seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

      Ammonite fossil seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

      Mystery rock found on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

      Stone Hut seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

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  3. In related news ... by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 3, Informative
    ... All Indian restaurants are serving nans shaped like Sri Lanka.

    Come on, people. Do something useful, like looking for that damned missing air liner. Looking at clouds and seeing various animals used to be a childhood past time of mine. But giving press time like this is ridiculous.

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  4. Re:This is Fantastic! by jeffmflanagan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Most likely that life will be giant spiders.

  5. OMG! by in10se · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear Slashdot,

    Please consider your audience. This might be the top "science" story on Hollywood Insider, but on Slashdot it's just insulting.

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  6. sheesh by spirit_fingers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And next week the big news will be they found a rock in the shape of Justin Bieber's ass. Can we please not devote precious pixels to such inanities? It's not like browser pages grow on trees.

  7. Bonus points for the first Slashdotter... by istartedi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bonus points for the first Slashdotter who finds a Mars-shaped rock in Australia. Picture or it didn't happen.

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