NASA Mars Rover Bright Spots picture

• This is a Image from Nasa curiosity Mars rover taken on this April using Navigation Camera.
  
  Once the rover took the image then after arriving at the waypoint is called the "Kimberley". The bright spot appears on a horizon, in the same west-northwest direction from the rover as the aftersoon sun.
  
  There are thousands of images we have received from and we see once with bright spots nearly every week. These can be caused by cosmic-ray hits or sunlight glithing from rock surfaces, as the most likely explanaations.
  
  If the bright spots in the April images are from a glinting rock,the directions of the spots from the rover suggest the rock could be on a ridge about 175 Yards from the rover locations.
•   The bright spots appear in images from the right-eye camera of the stereo Navcam, but not in images taken within one second of those by the left-eye
• camera. Maki said, "Normally we can quickly identify the likely source of a bright spot in an image based on whether or not it occurs in both images of a stereo pair. In this case, it's not as straightforward because of a blocked view from the second camera on the first day."
• At the Kimberley and, later, at outcrops on the slope of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, researchers plan to use Curiosity's science instruments to learn more about habitable past conditions and environmental changes.
• NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
• Washington. The project designed and built the project's Curiosity rover and operates it on Mars.