DENVER, October 16th, 2008 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered the backshell for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The backshell is ...

While the photograph is genuine, what it shows is the NASA lander's aeroshell (heat-shielded protective shell) – initially launched from Earth – and not “otherwordly wreckage,” as posts on social ...