[Iain.k (Iain)]

Originally Posted by gary

JPL reports -



Bright object is in the foreground, on the ground, near the bottom of this Mastcam image -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...25-43_full.jpg

Back on 7 October, Curiosity took its first scoop of Martian soil.
Video of the soil being vibrated in the scoop here -
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=153559401

Its all ok its just a piece of wire covering

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-316

"Over the past two sols, with rover arm activities on hold, the team has assessed the object as likely to be some type of plastic wrapper material, such as a tube used around a wire, possibly having fallen onto the rover from the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's descent stage during the landing in August. "