OPPORTUNITY’S STRANGE ROCK MYSTERY SOLVED
by Hazed
Remember the strange appearance of the donut-shaped rock on Mars which suddenly showed up in the Opportunity rover’s photos? I told you about it a few weeks ago, because some nutjob was suing NASA on the grounds they were covering something up.
Well now researchers have determined exactly what it is. It’s not a fungus, or an alien, or even part of a Martian power system. It is a piece of a larger rock which was broken and moved by the rovers wheel. New images show the original piece of rock, just a little uphill from where the donut rock was seen.
So no mystery after all. Of course, NASA could be lying…
Source: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-051
