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Have trace fossils been found on Mars?Read more: https://www.space.com/39294-mars-rover-curiosity-weird-tube-structures.htmlIn browsing the first new batch of 2018 photos taken by the Curiosity rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), researcher Barry DiGregorio speculated on whether the Red Planet robot found trace fossils on Mars. DiGregorio is a research fellow for the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology in the United Kingdom and author of the nonfiction books "Mars: The Living Planet" and "The Microbes of Mars."
"They look remarkably similar to Ordovician trace fossils I have studied and photographed here on Earth," DiGregorio told Inside Outer Space. "If not trace fossils, what other geological explanations will NASA come up with?"
A lot of people are freaking out about this news but personally I don't get it. These look like rocks to me. It seems fairly obvious we are just seeing a loose pattern resembling a dinosaur fossil but it doesn't look it is actually a fossil. This would be like seeing a face in a cloud when looking up at the sky. You can see the pattern and it's cool but you don't actually think you are seeing a person's face.
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