The Shiny Mars Mystery Object: 10 Things It Could Be

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The Curiosity rover spotted a shiny object on the surface of Mars while digging through the dirt on Sunday. While the NASA team suspects that this is a piece of the rover's hardware, we'd like to keep our minds open to all of the other possibilities (including a tiny spy camera from aliens in a distant galaxy).

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After all, Curiosity may be the mayor of the Gale Crater, but she's not the first pioneer to roam the Red Planet -- Arnold Schwarzenegger went there in 1990 in order to uncover his past.

So, we put our brains together and came up with a highly scientific list of what the tiny shiny object could really be. Do you…
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