Yeah, they speculated on that two days ago. The wind blows on Mars, and earthly litter tends to get around. Go figure. We are now littering our third planetary body, as a species. (Room for argument here, go for it if you are a stickler for detail). I'm deliberately spreading the shame, rather than just fessing-up as "American". ;-) On Oct 11, 2012 4:11 PM, "Daniel Holmes" <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
Looks like it's a piece of plastic that fell off the descent stage. So I was partially right, I thought it was something that fell off the sound stage...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-316
Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin
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