The unidentified object that Curiosity spotted a couple of days ago has now been identified — it’s a benign piece of plastic, that probably got loose during the descent stage. Humans and their littering ways...

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This image was taken by Curiosity on Sol 61 (October 7, 2012). After examining the image, the rover team decided to refrain from using its arm on Sol 62. Instead, the rover was instructed to take additional photos of the bright object to aid the team in assessing possible impact, if any, to sampling activities.

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The mystery with the three descending UFOs that were recently filmed over Cincinnati, Ohio has now been solved. Once again, we can blame those pesky skydivers and their fancy pyrotechnics.

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The Earth’s magnetosphere is formed when a stream of charged particles, such as the solar wind, interacts with and is deflected by the magnetic field that surrounds our planet. Within Earth’s magnetosphere are energetic particles that emit radio waves which are at frequencies audible to the human ear. This phenomenon [...]

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