Water, Possibly FOSSILS on Mars?!

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NASA will hold a press conference Tuesday to announce “significant findings” about water on Mars based on evidence from its Opportunity Mars rover.

“It’s going to be the most significant science results that we’ve had from the rovers, and it’s bearing on their primary mission,” NASA spokesperson Don Savage told SPACE.com . That mission is to find signs of water that might support life.

Blah, blah, blah. Who cares about water, check this link out!

Opportunity’s Microscopic Imager found this intriguing object, lookingmore like Rotini pasta. Its odd shape has stirred up Mars researchers,both inside and outside of the NASA Mars Rover Exploration team. Whetheror not this object is related to biology has prompted a variety of views.

Looks like a fossilized object to me. The only problem is that the picture is a bit fuzzed out. But if you look to the right about 1/5th of the way down and to the left, you will notice a smaller, similar sized object embedded in the rock.

Fossils? Perhaps. So I tried looking at the original on the JPL site, without much luck due to the volume of information. If I can find anything more conclusive I’ll let folks know, but those certainly look like something other than ordinary rock to me!