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Obvious Martian Turtle Found Near Curiosity
Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:32
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Obvious Martian Turtle Found Near Curiosity:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556734707&p=347
Location: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556734708&p=346
Image source: print-screened from the top center of NASA’s panorama at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/deepzoom/PIA16702/
For scale, visit http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16568
Many turtle fossils have been found on Mars (see http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=lin440315&book=20 ).
Read more at http://wretchfossil.blogspot.tw
The only thing obvious about that is its a rock…
Even if it were a fossilized turtle (which obviously its not) I highly doubt that all of the turtle’s bones/shell would stay together so well as to be left in a free standing position as if the “turtle” were walking and suddenly fossilized. Think of dinosaur fossils. They rarely find a complete skeleton, and when they do: the bones arn’t connected in any way that would allow them to remain standing on their own. This is because all of the muscle tissue that holds bones together rotted away long before the bones themselves fossilized. Those fossil skeletons you see in museums are held together by bolts.
Certainly a fun little photo, but definitely NOT a turtle lol