blessmycottonsocks
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Back on 29th January 2016, Curiosity was traversing some sand dunes and took what, at first glance, looks like an unremarkable photo:
One eagle-eyed observer zoomed in on the small object at the lower left which, in comparison with the tread pattern on Curiosity's wheel (just visible at lower right) looks to be around 10cm long:
Now, to me, that resembles a dowel screw - which would suggest that Curiosity was falling to bits.
Some though, reckon it's the exoskeleton of a Martian millipede or some sort of segmented worm.
Which do you think is the more likely?
One eagle-eyed observer zoomed in on the small object at the lower left which, in comparison with the tread pattern on Curiosity's wheel (just visible at lower right) looks to be around 10cm long:
Now, to me, that resembles a dowel screw - which would suggest that Curiosity was falling to bits.
Some though, reckon it's the exoskeleton of a Martian millipede or some sort of segmented worm.
Which do you think is the more likely?