NASA's Curiosity Rover Photographs Bizarre Spike-Like Rock Formations on Mars - TechEBlog

NASA's Curiosity rover has been chugging along for nearly a decade now, and its latest photographs most certainly do not disappoint. The Mars doorway it captured a while ago started all the social media buzz, but these spike-like rock formations are just as bizarre. SETI Institute researchers claims that they are basically cemented fillings of ancient fractures in a sedimentary rock. The spikes are most likely the result of erosion over time as the rest of the rock was probably made of softer material. What makes this significant? Sedimentary rocks typically contain fossils and could possibly reveal secrets about ancient

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