Plastic wrapper found on Mars

That is not plastic. It is clearly something like dried sinew or skin. For you city slickers think "dog chew toy".

Is this the first piece of garbage on Mars? The Galaxie is fucked now....

Atacama desert

NASA going to get a ticket by a martian cop for littering

It's definitely resting on the ground, it's not coming out of the ground.

It looks like it has horizontal parallel line patterns on it. Look like a piece of debris from some kind of machinery. Like the kind that would probably be going to Mars, and would be susceptible to breaking off.

As for the area in the middle, it looks like bent plastic, which gets that white look in the stressed area. In addition, I think the middle of the piece looks slightly melted.

That, or it's shed skin.

lmao

Wandering

That's also a possiblity.

So a highly complex, 1 tonne piece of machinery does a new activity for the first time, and a tiny piece of plastic wrapping material drops out of it onto the soil. Is that so surprising?

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Take a very good look at the main colour picture, the plastic is near the bottom centre of the frame. Remember that tiny scrap was spotted after curiosity started its first soil sampling activity. Why would it be unlikely to have fallen out of any of that equipment? Why would they take a whole day out of the programme to photograph and study it, if it was something they wanted to cover up?

K

It's a plastic bag for picking up dog poop from the Mars 'Rover'. arf arf arf...