On April 1 2023 NASA’s Curiosity rover uncovered a bizarre-looking rock formation, a images of what closely resembles dragon bones.
Curiosity successfully landed in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, as the largest and most capable rover at the time. Since, it’s made numerous breakthroughs, such as discovering evidence of past water on Mars, as well as organic molecules that are essential for life. Both being huge first steps in finding out if Mars once had life.
Although its declining condition and the launch of the more advanced Perseverance rover have put Curiosity’s heyday behind the 11-year-old robot, it continues to capture our imagination with rock formations that look all to familiar.
“In 20 years of studying Mars, that’s the most bizarre rock I have ever seen”, said Nathalie Cabrol, prominent Astrobiologist, and TED speaker. She explains that the structure gained its unique ripples “after lots of erosion,” presumably from wind.
What are weird leap. Rock that may possibly resemble thousands if not millions of known species fossils when viewed from one angle with no way to test it, but we jump straight to dragons.
Why? I think we should just jump straight to Martian Charizards if we are going that far. Pokemon on Mars sounds like a promising game to me.
What if its tyre tracks from the biker mice?
Great show!