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NASA's Curiosity detects shiny object on Mars

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    Officials suspect item might be part of the rover

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Well NASA landed the curiosity rover on the surface of Mars about two months ago has started exploring.

While it found something.

NASA's you -- -- engineer stop the rover -- its tracks when they -- this a shiny object on the surface of Mars.

Faith Gallagher.

-- -- -- -- covered crazy but any time you find some strange on Mars I think it's a big deal right you know curiosity -- -- and as you say he's been up there 61 days and was right in the middle of a scooping.

Test and that's the scope of the soil and sample and then they tested chemicals and and minerals to see if there was ever a chance that the soil could have supported life.

And then you see the scoping process here they spot something shiny and very small showed a picture again if you -- And they think.

Think that this might be actually a piece of curiosity you know -- small piece of metallic tape.

That might have fallen -- thumbing her nose and hearing from the thing who knows what it is.

There are a lot of theories on line now -- -- -- thinking this could be actually some other type of alien thing but we just -- talk to NASA short time ago.

And they believe this is actually a piece.

Of the rover but here's the deal they don't want to do any more of that scoping experiment because if rover picks it up and gets in the machinery.

It could mess up the entire system so for now.

Everything is on hold until rover actually takes more pictures of that little shiny thing to figure out exactly what it is.

If it's an alien sent -- -- they think it's of kind of a small chunk of the rover but again 61 days -- mystery going on up on Mars -- and we find out more about what this thing is -- back to -- So funny because n.'s political contest we keep talking about -- the candidate whoever's down wants to point to the next shiny thing to distract from whatever is in the news.

And look we finally -- a literally us shiny.

And -- to talk about our -- paint you a bit.

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