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06-23-2017, 05:11 AM
NASA's Curiosity rover has a pet rock on Mars
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Mars is probably a pretty lonely place.*
The red planet is littered with rusty red rocks and, as far as we k**w, devoid of any kind of life. But even so, rovers still roam the surface of the world on humanity's behalf, making their solitary treks along previously unexplored paths.*
And sometimes, they make friends.*
SEE ALSO: NASA photo captures the loneliness of the Mars Curiosity rover (http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/nasa-photograph-lonely-mars-curiosity-rover/)
NASA's Curiosity rover — which has been exploring the red planet's Gale Crater since 2012 — appears to have a little pet rock (https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=1730MH0002590000204902E01_DXXX&s=1730) caught in one of its wheels.*
The rock got stuck in the right front wheel at some point in the last couple weeks, but scientists aren't exactly sure when it started hitching a ride because the rover doesn't snap photos of its wheels every day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/curiosity-mars-rover-pet-rock/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Mars is probably a pretty lonely place.*
The red planet is littered with rusty red rocks and, as far as we k**w, devoid of any kind of life. But even so, rovers still roam the surface of the world on humanity's behalf, making their solitary treks along previously unexplored paths.*
And sometimes, they make friends.*
SEE ALSO: NASA photo captures the loneliness of the Mars Curiosity rover (http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/nasa-photograph-lonely-mars-curiosity-rover/)
NASA's Curiosity rover — which has been exploring the red planet's Gale Crater since 2012 — appears to have a little pet rock (https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=1730MH0002590000204902E01_DXXX&s=1730) caught in one of its wheels.*
The rock got stuck in the right front wheel at some point in the last couple weeks, but scientists aren't exactly sure when it started hitching a ride because the rover doesn't snap photos of its wheels every day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/curiosity-mars-rover-pet-rock/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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