[nikic]

I've seen this story on a few sites now, and none of them bothered to show just where exactly in that image the part is supposed to be. Very helpful.

[alexpenny]

They don't actually know where it is, they're just quoting NASA to jump on the page views.

[hnriot]

The story yesterday on Digg showed the bright object, plus it's not that hard to find since it's the only thing that's not rover or not red. I forget the source of that Digg linked to, but it speculated that most likely the bright shiny silver object was something from the sky crane or shielding from the entry stage. Considering the violence with which Curiosity entered martian 'airspace' it would seem very unlikely not to find some debris.

[sixothree]

Maybe its because they're all in the habit of resizing images and forgot to look at the original.