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'Spoon' on Mars Captured by NASA's Curiosity Rover

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While scientists puzzle over important Mars questions — Is there evidence of past life there? Liquid water? — some of us are left to ask more mundane questions, like: Was there once soup on Mars? 

The image in question comes from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which snapped it back in May…what looks like a spoon half-buried in dust on the surface of the Red Planet.

As thrilling as that sounds, the more likely explanation is that it’s an odd spoon-shaped bit of regular old Mars landscape.

Humans have a propensity for assigning familiar characteristics to random objects, a phenomenon called “pareidolia.” This is what lets us imaginatively see sheep in clouds and everything from a fish to Donald Trump’s face on Mars.

This isn’t the first time a spoon-like formation has been spotted in a rover image. A gravity-defying, shadow-casting “spoon” popped up in late 2015. Maybe someday we’ll find an entire set of silverware so we can throw a formal dinner party on Mars. 

https://www.cnet.com/news/mars-spoon-curiosity-rover-ufo/

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