Something Petrified, or Rocks

Report: #0186

Is this something fossilized, or is it just a game of geological rocks?

A landslide has uncovered something interesting on Mars. Was it something that grew there?

It is image number 1P274394321ESF90PDP2445L2M1 taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity on Sol 1647—that is, September 11, 2008, at 12:38 here on Earth. At first glance, you see the usual: sand, stones, and nothing up to the horizon.

A small incline, an accident in the flat environment of a few meters, is at the bottom of the image.

Well, let's analyze another image.

No, stop! What's this around here? Strange rocks. Yes. 

 Let's enlarge a bit. What poor resolution. But we can increase it a little. Good.

Look no further. What do we have here? Rocks with such conical shapes. 

All with a point like roots of some vegetable here on Earth. What needs a conical point when it's under the ground? Could it be something alive or was something alive?

Something that moves or moved underground, or something that grew underground—or in this case, under the soil of Mars.

Due to the impact beside it, it could be that this part of the earth collapsed, or, due to thawing in summer, the soil loosened and freed a few centimeters of ground. I estimate it's half a meter that opened up and exposed these things. 

If this discovery were on Earth, I think they would take all of it to a lab to clean it and see if it's a fossil, something petrified, or simply a geological game and nothing biological from Martian nature.

I can't define it either. I hope some scientist or geologist tells us clearly what it is. In the meantime, we archive it as something very particular and probably very close to something related to life on Mars.

 Josef Bauer  

Source: Opportunity Panoramic Camera Sol 1647

NASA / Mars rover Opportunity 1P274394321ESF90PDP2445L2M1

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Mars rover Opportunity 1P274394363ESF90PDP2445L5M1
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