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Mars Rover Wheels Exposed Fossils.

Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:11

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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity used its wheels to crush a Mars rock and exposed neuron fossils in the rock interior: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556720077&p=330

Image source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0194MR1041000000C0_DXXX&s=194

Clearly visible neuron fossils similar to the above: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556720078&p=331 Image source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0192MH0232000007R0_DXXX&s=192

Added on Feb. 28: What Rock Guys Will Say

A person who often reads a geological bible (X-ray Diffraction patterns) may say the “neuron fossils” are just the matrix or spaces between mineral grains. However, minerals by definition cannot create the morphology mentioned above, i.e. the “star-shaped spaces or matrix between mineral grains”, period.

Reason 1: Any mineral must have an ordered atomic structure (see first sentence at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral ), which must translate into an orderly geometric crystal structure (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral#Crystal_structure_and_habit ), which has no DNA or mechanism to create the morphology of neurons, especially the dendrites, axon, and the nucleus of a neuron.

Reason 2: Neurons and all animal cells have cell membranes, which are round or curvy in 3 dimensions or 2 dimensions. How can rock guys expect any mineral’s repetitive cubic crystal structure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure ) to create “curvy boundaries or star-shaped spaces between mineral grains”? Without such boundaries or spaces, how can the “neuron fossils” be simply matrix?

Reason 3: Since they are powerless to freely create starry shapes, minerals must steal or get into non-mineral material (such as fossils) to form the starry shapes, which thus contain the said minerals. The process is called fossilization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil#Fossilization_processes ).