Another oddity was found on Mars. It was found, of course, by lovers of remote sensing - the so-called virtual archaeologists, who consider images taken from other planets in search of objects that somehow stand out against the general background.
Recently, the robot "Curiosity" (Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity), which is now on the Red Planet and prowls the expanses of the equatorial Gale crater, has delighted me. Either he will photograph a grave with a cross, then some kind of egg, or someone's shoe.
But it turns out that the predecessors of the current apparatus, veterans who have arrived on the neighboring planet for already 10 years, have not yet exhausted their potential. For example, good luck accompanied the "archaeologists" who rummaged in the archives of the robot "Spirit" (Mars Exploration Rover Spirit) - the same one who in his own took a sculpture of a Martian in Gusev's crater, and now stands there stuck in the sand.
So, in one of the pictures, enthusiasts saw a stone with a square hole. Or a fragment of a stone structure that once had a rectangular groove. At the same time, the surface on which it is located looks polished.
Nature polishes well. But for a rectangular groove of natural origin to appear, some fantastic combination of circumstances is needed. It's easier to assume that the Martians ran it through.
The picture was taken on the 106th day of the stay of the Spirit robot on Mars. And he - of this kind - is not the first. On the 15th day, having just landed and traveled 3 meters across Mars, the robot also photographed a stone with a square hole. It is located even more "cunning" - at the end. And this end looks processed - as if cut off at a right angle. And the stone itself looks like a handle from a frying pan.
Rectangular objects in nature? Fiction.
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And one more find from the archive (124 days of the Spirit's stay on Mars): a stone that looks like a shark's jaw. Or some kind of scraper with teeth. The same is strange …
Either a shark, or a stone with teeth.
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The original shot of the slotted stone can be viewed here, and the scraper here.