Curiosity's Mars tripod debunked as a brief camera glitch
TL;DR
NASA's Curiosity rover captured a brief, tripod-like speck in Gale Crater that went viral, but experts say it’s almost certainly a camera artifact caused by a high-energy particle hitting the NavCam sensor, a common cosmic-ray effect; the object appears in only one frame and is not seen in frames taken seconds before or after, suggesting no physical structure was present.
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