Rover eyes 'man-made' objects in Martian dirt

Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 18, 2012
NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface - and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday. In an update on Curiosity's two-and-a-half month old mission, NASA said its Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument, deep in the car-sized rover's belly, will analyze the soil

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