Images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3 include bright spots, which might be due to the sun glinting off a rock or cosmic rays striking the camera’s detector. The image from April 3, from Curiosity’s Navigation Camera, is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA18077 The rover took the image just after arriving at a waypoint called “the Kimberley.” The bright spot appears on a horizon, in the same west-northwest direction from the rover as the afternoon Sun… [More at top link]
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