It was probably made in China, so its not American litter.
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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