NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Coral-Like Rock on Mars
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Summary
NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered a wind-eroded rock on Mars that resembles coral, found in Gale Crater. The rock's appearance is strikingly similar to Earth's reef-building creatures, as captured by the rover's high-resolution camera.
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· 3 pulledNASA's Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars.
The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, wind-eroded rock, which the rover found inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater.
A black and white picture taken with Curiosity's Remote Micro Imager shows the rock's resemblance to Earth's coral.
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