Martian robot "Curiosity" photographed an object consisting of identical rectangular elements
Virtual archaeologists have uncovered further evidence of past Martian life. We saw it in the photo that the robot "Curiosity" (NASA's Mars rover Curiosity) took in August 2016. Filmed with the so-called camera on a rod (Mastcam: Right (MAST_RIGHT)) on the 1514 day of my trip to the Red Planet. 5 objects very similar to bricks got into the frame. The objects are even, rectangular, four of the same size. Some are stacked in a larger object, others are nearby. They differ in color from the surrounding landscape.
A large object, according to "archaeologists", may be part of some kind of building structure.
NASA Image Bricks
Bigger bricks
Alternatively, the items are not bricks, but something like wall tiles.
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Bricks and tiles on Mars may be natural
Researchers from the University of Toronto, without suspecting it, explained where objects similar to elements of ancient ruins could appear on the Red Planet. The same bricks. Or tiles that were supposed to have paved the road, laid in even rows. As, for example, in the picture taken back in 2004 by Opportunity, the predecessor of Curiosity.
Pavement on Mars. Covered with tiles. Almost like in Moscow
There are similar structures on Earth. One of them is legendary
Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The view is clearly man-made. Although the structure is tens of millions of years old. And then there seemed to be no one to fence her. The secret of these geometric formations, over which geologists puzzled for almost 300 years, was revealed by Canadian physicists.
Ireland's Giant's Causeway (Earth)
Lucas Goring and Stephen Morris took the hypothesis that the correct shape was the result of the cracking of solidified lava. And we tested it in a very original way. Namely, by means of starch, water and a blowtorch.
By changing the heating regimes of the mixture of starch and water, scientists forced it to dry at different rates. And as a result, we got almost the same slabs as in nature. Only from starch. And on a smaller scale.
As the researchers write in their report, the slower the mixture (in real life - lava) cools, the more slabs or pillars are obtained that form structures on the surface.
Scientists have modeled the process and made a tile from starch
Goring and Morris got hexagons. On Mars, slabs and bricks are rectangular.
There is no fundamental difference, according to scientists. They claim that lava can solidify into different structures. Even in bricks. And the number of faces in them can vary.
Bricks on Mars
Vladimir LAGOVSKY