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    'Mystery' Light on Mars Spotted by Curiosity (Update)


    The Sol 589 (April 3) photograph that appears to include a light source on the horizon of Gale Crater
    as observed by Curiosity's Navcam.



    UPDATE: NBC's Alan Boyle has written a fascinating article about another theory as to what the mysterious Mars light is. Once again Curiosity has thrown us a curve ball -- one explanation revealed by a NASA scientist is that the light may be caused by the shiny surface of a rock as two Navcam images taken at different times appear to feature the same light.

    "One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun," Justin Maki, imaging scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Boyle. "When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky."

    Another explanation could be a spot of light leaking into the camera's housing through a vent hole. "We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock," said Maki.


    ... or another explanation could be what UFO enthusiast Scott C. Waring, says: “This could indicate there there is intelligent life below the ground and uses light as we do. This is not a glare from the sun, nor is it an artifact of the photo process.”...



    Maki is not ruling out the cosmic ray explanation, but it is very curious that a similar spot of light should be present in two separate images, taken on two different days from the same instrument. But, no, it's still not aliens. Stay tuned for updates...



    Full Story: http://news.discovery.com/space/myst...BState=Unknown



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    the 'glint' is clearly projecting upward, breaking the horizon.
    could a simple glint project so robustly?

    if a glint, that's one hell of a glint.

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    Quote Originally posted by jimmer View Post
    the 'glint' is clearly projecting upward, breaking the horizon.
    could a simple glint project so robustly?

    if a glint, that's one hell of a glint.
    I actually agree with you but must put forth that particles in the air and a VERY unique refraction from a light/s elsewhere could cause this. The chances are highly unlikely and it does of course look like a beam from ground level.

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    Other videos of this & others like it. http://jandeane81.com/threads/2593-U...Source-on-Mars

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