<p>The strange "glow" spotted on the Red Planet by Curiosity is not a sign of life. It is either a shiny rock or a glitch in the rover's camera, NASA has said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>UFO blogger Scott Waring had claimed that the new photograph taken by the rover suggests there are intelligent creatures living underground. <br /><br />However, NASA said it has now investigated the image, and found it is simply a trick of light.<br /><br />"One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun," a NASA spokesperson was quoted as saying by mailonline.uk.<br /><br />"When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky.<br /><br />"The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be caused by cosmic rays striking the camera's detector."<br /><br />NASA's engineers believe the glow may have been caused by sunlight reaching the camera's sensors through a vent hole in the camera housing.<br /><br />The agency said this 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.<br /><br />NASA also revealed that such glitches are commonplace.<br /><br />"Among the thousands of images received from Curiosity, ones with bright spots show up nearly every week."<br /><br />Curiosity takes images using two cameras, one in its right eye and the other in its left.<br /><br />While the image from the right eye shows this bright spot, the same image from the left eye does not.</p>
<p>The strange "glow" spotted on the Red Planet by Curiosity is not a sign of life. It is either a shiny rock or a glitch in the rover's camera, NASA has said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>UFO blogger Scott Waring had claimed that the new photograph taken by the rover suggests there are intelligent creatures living underground. <br /><br />However, NASA said it has now investigated the image, and found it is simply a trick of light.<br /><br />"One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun," a NASA spokesperson was quoted as saying by mailonline.uk.<br /><br />"When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky.<br /><br />"The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be caused by cosmic rays striking the camera's detector."<br /><br />NASA's engineers believe the glow may have been caused by sunlight reaching the camera's sensors through a vent hole in the camera housing.<br /><br />The agency said this 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.<br /><br />NASA also revealed that such glitches are commonplace.<br /><br />"Among the thousands of images received from Curiosity, ones with bright spots show up nearly every week."<br /><br />Curiosity takes images using two cameras, one in its right eye and the other in its left.<br /><br />While the image from the right eye shows this bright spot, the same image from the left eye does not.</p>