NASA’s Curiosity rover finds ‘flower’ on surface of Mars

"NASA has released a series of new photos taken
by its Curiosity rover that appear to show a “flower”
on the surface of Mars.

NBCNews.com’s photo blog reports that the photos
were taken as part of an effort to capture 360-degree
images during Curiosity’s trek through Mars’
Yellowknife Bay.

New Jersey-based journalist and photographer Ken
Kramer has assembled the Curiosity photographs,
adding color to give a realistic view of what the rover
is seeing on the planet’s surface.

But what has really caught people’s attention is a
raw image from NASA’s photo feed that one reader
on Above Top Secret has called a “Martian flower.”
On the posting, the commenter going by the name
“Arken,” writes: “The Albedo (or Reflectivity of Sun
Light) of this object is very high, and its translucent
appearance, the irregular conformation (like pistils)
and the 'texture' of its wider areas is smooth, and
seem that it is ground attached. This is the
SECOND TRANSLUCENT ANOMALY detected by
Curiosity in Gale Crater.”"

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...220649001.html