The rover spotted a tiny Martian rock that looks eerily like a fossilized book on the surface of the Red Planet.
NASA's Curiosity rover snapped an intriguing picture of a tiny Martian rock that looks surprisingly like a fossilized book on the surface of the Red Planet.
The rock may look somewhat like a book, but it is much smaller. The fossilized pageturner is actually just 1 inch across, according to NASA. "Rocks with unusual shapes are common on Mars," NASA representatives wrote. The strangely shaped rocks are made from minerals that were left behind by ancient water. These minerals would once have been buried beneath softer sediments, but billions of years of erosion by wind have blown away everything else, they added.
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