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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Curiosity rover discovered what looks like coral on Mars. | Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 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, …

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 …