Mars Rover Finds Mystery Spheres on Mars

Space.com ^ | Sept 16, 2012 | Tarty Malik

[Condor51]

*** Alien eggs. Bring some back. ***

Uh ... I don't think so.

The last time that was tried it didn't work out too well.

;-)

[21twelve]

The large mass of mars (like the earth - not our small moon) would require a launch of a large rocket like at Cape Canaveral. NOT like the small moon landers. Sending men to mars would be first - and it would be a one-way ticket. Although I imagine they already have a waiting list for that one.

[Uriah_lost]

“No kill I!!”

[Carriage Hill]

∅bummer's mulligan golf balls?

[21twelve]

“They seem to be crunchy on the outside, and softer in the middle,”

As long as they aren’t coconut creme-filled. I hate coconut.

[winodog]

I never thought about but I would not be suprised if they found gemstones, gold, solver, copper, etc, laying around.

Any reason for there not to be?

[Eleutheria5]

Get Pixar screenwriters working on a feature film IMMEDIATELY! 8 1/2 years?! This is all Bush’s fault. Another of his failed policies, that’s been paying for itself instead of requiring more money like it ought to.

[bunkerhill7]

It`s The Giant Petrified Martian Toad

[blueunicorn6]

Well, if the Mars Rover had found mystery spheres on Jupiter, then here’d be a story. Shoot, I found The House of Mystery in Orlando.

[Daffynition]

Your image reminded me of this cool video. :)

http://vimeo.com/48466065

[Verginius Rufus]

QuizNo Planet

I'm confused. Does that mean QuizNo's flies its subs here from Mars? Or that QuizNo's owns Mars?

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks NYer. Another ‘extra, extra’ ping to APoD members.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Death Star, Saturn's moon, Iapetus, Klerksdorp Museum metallic spheres. More here.

[Kirkwood]

“Kirkwood is chock full of a dense accumulation of these small spherical objects. Of course, we immediately thought of the blueberries, but this is something different. We never have seen such a dense accumulation of spherules in a rock outcrop on Mars.”

Get that danged contraption off my lawn!

[DYngbld]

It will be fun when they find gold.

Don"t worry if they do there will be a discovery channel show about it. "GOLD RUSH MARS"

[catfish1957]

Maybe they found Obama’s balls up there. Uhhhhhh nevermind.

[PapaBear3625]

I wouldn't be surprised to find glassivation at the edge of a crater, which this photo sort of resembles.

Meteor hits, tosses molten material up in the air. Surface tension draws the falling molten bits into spheres. They solidify in the cold Martian air before they hit the ground.

[nikos1121]

klingons around uranus

[Twinkie]

crop circles?

[Carry_Okie]

Meteor hits, tosses molten material up in the air. Surface tension draws the falling molten bits into spheres.

This looks more like a material that came out of solution as a molten glass cooled.