'Ancient tree stump' spotted on Mars?
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UFO hunters claim that an image taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover shows an ancient tree stump on the surface of the Red Planet.
A video posted to YouTube by Paranormal Crucible highlights the feature on the surface of Mars, speculating that it could be the petrified remains of a Martian tree. “Object is around 3 feet in height, and with numerous discoveries of plant and animal life on mars, it would be logical to assume, that a variety of tree either existed, or still exists on this enigmatic planet,” it explained, in a post accompanying the video.
STRANGE ‘FIGURE’ SPOTTED BY MARS CURIOSITY ROVER
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"Paranormal Crucible makes a hypothesis that this could be an ancient tree stump on Mars," adds the website UFO Sightings Daily. "Its a good assumption since NASA themselves said Mars was Earth-like when a solar explosion hit the planet."
The video sparked a slew of comments on YouTube, with not everyone convinced by the tree stump theory. “OMG, it's a rock!” wrote one commenter. “It is a rock formation. The strata is identical to the formation behind it, except vertically tilted. It was probably flipped,” wrote another commenter.
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The image was taken by the Curiosity Rover’s Left Mastcam on March 25, 2017, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This is not the first time that a Martian image has generated buzz. In 2015 UFO hunters claimed to identify a mysterious woman-like shape in a picture taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover.
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The largest rover ever sent to Mars, Curiosity launched on Nov. 26 2011 and landed on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012.