Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover

I'm probably crazy, but I've been staring at the two images for five minutes and can't see anything in one that isn't in the other, unless it is obscured by the annoying "view related gallery"button.

EDIT: Ok, half the time I load the page, the page works and I see the rock, but the other half of the time, the image is shifted down, the top half of the display box is black, and the "rock" is off screen...

Re: Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover

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Post by tunap » Fri, Jan 17, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

scrumper wrote: post #8

How big a deal is it, scientifically speaking, that the rover has access to the freshly-exposed underside of the rock?

It has the potential to be huge. You never know what's just under the surface until you look. The NatGeo special, "Ten Years On Mars"[1] made a point to include how when a bad tire on Spirit dug a trench in the soft crust, an unexpected surprise revealed itself.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/ten-y...

Edit: Add pertinent link:

http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/accidental_tourist_bad_wheel...