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NASA finds multi-billion-year-old ‘coral’ on Mars

NASA finds multi-billion-year-old ‘coral’ on Mars

NASA‘s Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars. The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, wind-eroded rock, which the rover found inside the Red Planet’s Gale Crater on July 24 — but it looks remarkably similar to the reef-building creatures found in Earth’s oceans. A black and white …

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