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One step closer to skeleton on Mars as hip bone is found
The collection of what appear to be human bones and skulls on Mars got bigger this week as a new image taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover shows what looks like a human hip bone. Added to the collection of bones already found on the Martian surface, we’re one step closer to putting together a skeleton. But of what? A mysterious astronaut? A Martian?
There’s not much information from NASA other than the picture. Placed next to a photo of an actual human hip bone, there’s definitely a resemblance with some compensation for erosion and other degradation of the bone.
It would be understandable to be skeptical of this find if there hadn’t been more instances of human bones and skulls popping up in other photos from the Mars rovers.
This one, taken by Curiosity in August 2014, shows what looks very much like a femur or thigh bone of a human or mammal.
