Mars rover Curiosity has rolled up to Rocknest and is getting ready to scoop its first soil sample, which is key to figuring out if microbial life ever existed on the Red Planet. Rocknest, site of Curiosity's first soil sample Rocknest, site of Curiosity's first soil sample. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The rover is going …

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Friday 5th October 2012 14:27 GMT Anonymous Coward

7cm long?

Now that's just bragging!

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1. Friday 5th October 2012 20:02 GMT LarsG
  
  Fossilised
  
  Martian Turd.
  
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Friday 5th October 2012 14:29 GMT CCCP

Proof of aliens right there

The aliens on Mars are massive - look at the size of that footprint in the second photo!

You can see the heel and the arch of the foot clearly. They also appear to use footwear well adapted to Martian soil. As you would expect.

Time to turn Curiosity around and run (well crawl)... Or use the laser in anger...

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Friday 5th October 2012 16:47 GMT Graham Marsden

"Curiosity has...

"...already used one of its wheels to scuff the Martian surface"

Nah, someone at NASA just wanted to do the first interplanetary burn-out!

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1. Friday 5th October 2012 22:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: "Curiosity has...
  
  Beaten by the Spirit team surely? Attempting a burnout on loose soil under low gravity and low pressure was probably not the wisest of moves.
  
  (Joke, obviously.)
  
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Saturday 6th October 2012 02:00 GMT David Pickering

rocknest monstaah!

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Saturday 6th October 2012 16:23 GMT Meltdown

Wow! just think of the news headlines after the experiment.."Curiosity...has soiled itself"

...a Universe first.

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Sunday 7th October 2012 21:08 GMT Tony Reeves 1

Prediction

I predict that they will find rubber molecules in the test sample, indicating the passage of Martians on rubber tired vehicles in the past.....

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Tuesday 9th October 2012 14:14 GMT John 62

Halo

I have the image of a USNC Warthog hooning around

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