"Where am I?" "In the Vallis Marineris"

NASA's JPL have been testing an unusual rover design.

It has to be said, it looks awfully reminiscent of another Rover.

I have this image of it rolling slowly across the martian desert, chasing a guy in a spacesuit with a big '6' painted on it.

MC

Dmitri's looking awfully... tentacular

I do like The Register, but I rather think the folks there are stretching things a bit in this report on the bunch of Russian scientists stranded on a melting ice floe (and now thankfully rescued):

The 12 researchers at North Pole-32 - situated 700 km north-west of the Spitzbergen archipelago - escaped intact but now face an ordeal reminiscent of John Carpenter's The Thing.

Unless, that is, one of the frozen boffins really is a shape-shifting alien monster intent on assimilating and imitating everyone in sight. In which case we probably haven't heard the end of this...

MC