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• A NASA picture of a mysterious bright light on Mars has sparked the interest of UFO believers. But before we cry extraterrestrial, the bright light may be nothing more than a "glinty rock."
• 'We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock.'

  - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Justin Maki
• "One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lead for the engineering cameras on Curiosity Justin Maki told FoxNews.com.
• "The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be sunlight reaching the camera's CCD directly through a vent hole in the camera housing, which has happened previously on other cameras on Curiosity and other Mars rovers when the geometry of the incoming sunlight relative to the camera is precisely aligned."
• "We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock."
• The picture was captured on April 3 by the right-hand navigation camera on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
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• Dwayne Brown
    Office of Public Affairs
    NASA Headquarters
    202-358-1726
• Dwayne.C.Brown@nasa.gov
• Guy Webster
    Media Relations
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    818-354-6278
    guy.w.webster@nasa.gov

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