A strange thing seen on Mars that might actually mean something

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/local/science/article/Strange-things-on-Mars-NASA-life-too-6822139.php

Stonehenge, Bigfoot, floating spoon, iguana, light flashes, ghost woman ... you name it, it's been "seen" on Mars (and you can see them in the gallery above). And now there's the cauliflower fields of Gusev crater.

NASA's rover Spirit shot photos of the cauliflower fields (above) years ago and they mystified scientists and left everyone else to wonder too because they look so much like something more than a rock, bigger rock, crater scree slide or a sand dune.

Now researchers from Arizona State University think they've found an Earth equivalent that appears to have been created by microbes, suggesting the cauliflower fields of Mars were also made by microbes. Meaning ... life on Mars!

No need to use your wild imagination here. Scientists Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December that these mineral deposits might have been sculpted by microbes in the same way. From their abstract:

[scscholar]

1. And how does this help the people?

[Trajan]

2. Anti-science? ... Check

Gone

[WiffenPoof]

19. Lolol...nt

[leftstreet]

3. Cauliflower for everyone!

[TexasProgresive]

4. We'll have to melt the moon for the cheese.

[justiceischeap]

15. What are you a scolar of?

It certainly isn't science.

It's funny, we don't know about all of the things living and growing in the rain forests that are being decimated but we do know that there are probably things there that could have a potential to do good things.

So we may not know how or if this is helpful to people now but it could be.

[Hortensis]

25. Scs, how did the discovery that water runs downhill

"help the people" by eventually putting cauliflower in their mouths? Clue: BIG help. Massive. In many ways.

[snooper2]

26. Well, it shows you should always cover up your dung

Otherwise people billions of years later may discover it

[Katashi_itto]

28. Welcome to Ignore.

[TeamPooka]

29. that's what I did too. lol. nt

[Katashi_itto]

31. :)

[Scott m. Etches]

5. NASA loves life on Mars

Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars

[Adrahil]

20. The evidence is piling up.....

There were once little microbial Martians!

[JonathanRackham]

6. Life on Mars?

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[PeoViejo]

7. Tiny Coprolites I see

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..or is Eye fooling Me?

[Orrex]

8. No shit!

[randome]

13. That has the tenor of a sly 'in' joke. Now where did I put that Wikipedia?

On edit: well, there's the problem. It's 'coprolites', not 'coprolytes'. Okay, PeoViejo, you're on my list.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]No squirrels were harmed in the making of this post. Yet.[/center][/font][hr]

[PeoViejo]

14. That's two screw-ups Today

I'm feeling loved....

[PeoViejo]

22. It was a spelling error

My spell checker didn't catch it. I see your point, though.

[randome]

24. Hey, no complaints here, I'm just yanking your chain!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[NeoGreen]

9. A Martian version of a Stromatolite?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite

[nichomachus]

10. Oddly enough, it's actually an ancient Sumerian inscription

It says "Feel the Bern"

[KamaAina]

11. Thread win!

[librechik]

12. ooh! fossils! and a starfish!

when can we put up the resort hotel? This beach looks great!

[kentuck]

16. Its appears to be...

the area where a strong wind, perhaps a tornado, picked up the "top soil" and left what we see in the photograph.

[KamaAina]

17. Tornados would imply that Mars once had a much richer atmosphere

than it does now, making it more likely that there could have been life.

[kentuck]

33. Didn't you see The Martian?

[Cal Carpenter]

18. Life on Mars?

[B Calm]

21. I see an interstate highway too.

[Scott m. Etches]

23. An illusion if no toll booths.

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[dchill]

27. Cauliflower? Coprolites?

Looks like Nestle Crunch to me...

[yellowcanine]

30. Trump's Hair in the lower left hand corner.

[KamaAina]

32. Nah. tRump's hair is right here on Earth.

In the form of an Amazonian flannel moth caterpillar.