A Partially Buried 'Gear Mechanism' on Mars, or Just Another Rock?
Mars Exoarchaeology Report: #MIA048 "Serrated Mechanism"
Here is another tantalizing example of a mysterious object on Mars, which in this case looks like a piece of ancient technology sticking out of the ground!
Could this strange, mechanical-looking oddity be evidence of intelligent beings who once lived on the Planet Mars? Or, is it just another mundane case of optical illusion caused by a mixture of geological randomness, and the human proclivity to seeing familiar shapes in nature, such as human faces in clouds, trees and rocks?
For researchers like myself, who in the past have all too often been fooled by tricks of light and shadow, and especially by objects on the Martian surface that are just a bit too far distant to be sure of what the true shape is, it is an all too rare a treat, indeed, to be able to observe an unusual object in quite some detail from a picture taken by the NASA rover cameras.
And this one I find intriguing.
My first observation immediately notices what appears to be a flat smoothness from the shadows cast behind the object, and several triangular-shaped ‘teeth’ and perpendicular angles. Most importantly, the object stands out alone amongst chiefly vesicular, pitted and shattered rock fragments that display no such characteristics.
