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Is Curiosity wheels going to hold up to get to Mount Sharp that's the 2.5 billion dollar question after looking at the dings in the wheels here:

sol 84

Rocks at Curiosity Rocknest sol 80-82, I sharpen and add contrast to JPL's Images from Curiosity

"Is there any chance it could be organic? Windblown from some distant warm water pool?"

Dunes anybody.

Who knows some water based life form not use to the martian atmosphere would boil and explode then dry out once it comes in contact with the surfaces if dug up from a pressurized subsurface, a good example is how it was portrayed in Total Recall? Here on earth ice worms that live on top of mountain glaciers that have antifreeze inside them live in ice up to 3 feet below its surface, the worms melt and die from the warmth of people's hands when they hold them without gloves, their used to much lower temperatures. It's a very-long shot but it can happen. It kind of looks like a shredded skin from a snake or a worm, now that would be a site to see some snakes slithering around the rover.

On another note, it is good that they are going to zap the bright object they just found, on 10/13/2012 of this blog I suggested to do the same thing, see the last several images. We will have a control test that they can calibrate their laser spectro to if they know what type of material the bright plastic worm-like object was and zap that too.

Here is another bright object in the trench dug by Curiosity imaged by its Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) images for Sol 67. Ha, maybe Curiosity is at an old Martian dump site?

"is Mars now being contaminated with "LIFE" from Earth from the rovers and "debris" from the Rovers? seems likely!!"

It is very likely, we may have started terraforming Mars with life over thirty years ago. We can go way back to the Viking Landers and say the same thing, most things back then weren't as rigorously cleaned of all life forms on earth before launch as the newer Landers and Rovers. With that being said no object can be uncontaminated 100 percent. Some of these microscopic extromphiles that live on earth can survive the trip to Mars and the rigorous process to kill them off before launch.

New close-up image of bright spot, looks like someone on Mars tried to roll a joint???

Here on earth there are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×1030) bacteria on Earth, forming a biomass that exceeds that of all plants and animals.

Some bacteria do grow larger than 0.7 mm like the E. fishelsoni and the collodictyon which date back over 3.7 billion years ago is the size of one of those moving life-like objects. There are several reasons I think this could be life. Water ice was first verified at the Phoenix Lander, subsurface life would be under pressure therefore trapped water vapor and gas can make the pressure much higher just below the surface where water would form during a certain time of day and season. Extemophiles like Tardigrades  can survive the vacuum of space, thousands of times more radiation than humans can in a suspended animation type cocoon called a tune and live years without water. These life like objects would be like fish out of water when first dug up.

With that being said look what I found at Curiosity sol 62 looks like a worm that was just dug up by the shovel they used to dig up some sand???

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Updated 02/25/2012

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