A
peculiar petal-shaped cluster spotted on Mars by NASA scientists has sparked
speculation that flowers might be blooming on the red planet.
The so-called “Martian flower” is seen in
an image captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover last month. In the image, pearl-
colored petals appear to sprout from a rock’s surface.
Space fans on online discussion forums
remarked that it might be quartz embedded in the rock. One optimistic commenter
suggested it might be the pistils of a blooming flower, the New York Daily News
reported.
A similar find in October last year had
turned out to be a piece of plastic that had fallen from the rover itself.
“But the cluster appears to be part of the
rock,” NASA spokesperson Guy Webster told the Daily News in an email.
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