NASA's Curiosity rover finds 'flower' on surface of Mars
But what has really caught people's attention is a raw image from NASA's photo feed that one reader on Above Top Secrethas called a "Martian flower." On the posting, the commenter going by the name "Arken," writes: "The Albedo (or Reflectivity of Sun Light) of this object is very high, and its translucent appearance, the irregular conformation (like pistils) and the 'texture' of its wider areas is smooth, and seem that it is ground attached. This is the SECOND
TRANSLUCENT ANOMALY detected by Curiosity in Gale Crater."
NBC's Alan Boyle writes that he at first assumed the "flower" was
actually just a piece of plastic that had fallen off the Curiosity
rover. A similar event
happened in October. So, Boyle reached out to NASA spokesman Guy
Webster. Interestingly, Webster shot down the plastic theory, saying in response, "That appears to be part of the rock, not debris from the spacecraft."
On Wednesday, scientists announced that an ancient rock that traveled from Mars to Earth over 2 billion years ago appears to have interacted with water on the planet's surface.
So, what do you think? Does the image show a decayed piece of organic life residing on the surface of Mars?
Credit: alienspress.blogspot.com
