NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent 14 years investigating whether ancient Mars could have supported microbial life, but a strange new image has sparked claims that it discovered something far more extraordinary.
The photograph appears to show a dark, rectangular opening cut into a rocky hill, which some observers have compared to the doorway of a primitive dwelling.
Curiosity captured the underlying images in late July while approaching a ledge on Mount Sharp, the three-mile-high mountain it has been climbing inside Mars’ Gale Crater.
The rover was examining possible cross-bedded sediments, geological formations that can reveal how wind or water moved material across the planet
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