The Curiosity rover found strange structures on Mars.

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"NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on October 11, before leaving Gediz Vallis channel. The field was where the rover made the first discovery of pure sulfur on Mars. Scientists are still unsure exactly why these rocks formed here. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS" (ScitechDaily, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Mars’ Mysterious Spiderweb Rocks and Hidden Crystals)

There was warm water on Mars about 4,41 million years ago. But then. Some cosmic catastrophe destroyed that sea on Mars. We can see remnants of that sea today. But cosmic rays turned that planet into a dry and cold place. Cosmic events can push large planes off their trajectories. The case of Formalhaut B is an event where a cosmic catastrophe turned a planet that orbited the star,  Formalhault into a molecular cloud. 

The strange spiderweb rocks are things. That can make a breakthrough for the researchers researching living organisms on that planet. The spiderweb can also form in some kind of electron or electricity eruption. But that is only a guess. The spiderweb stones are interesting because they can form because of electric eruptions. Lightning can play a crucial role in the birth of life. 


"This weblike crystalline structure called boxwork is found in the ceiling of the Elk’s Room, part of Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing for a journey to a boxwork formation that stretches for miles on Mars’ surface. Credit: NPS Photo/Kim Acker" (ScitechDaily, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Mars’ Mysterious Spiderweb Rocks and Hidden Crystals)

The structure is similar looking to sand there the lightning hits on sand on earth and creates a structure sometimes called "thunder roots". The lightning just melts sand bites and probably those spiderweb structures formed when lightning hit the sand on the red planet. Those electric eruptions can form when some of the Martian volcanoes erupt. 


"Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on December 10, 2006. The agency’s Curiosity rover will study ridges similar to these up close in 2025. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona" (ScitechDaily, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Mars’ Mysterious Spiderweb Rocks and Hidden Crystals)

It's possible. Those stones formed when positive and negative iron bites hit each other on Mars' atmosphere. But things like DNA samples can help to find out those mysteries. It could be possible that life started to form on a red planet same time as on Earth. But then suddenly some cosmic impact stopped that advance. The life on Earth began in the non-organic reactions. 



"A study reveals ancient hot water activity on Mars, indicated by a 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain from a Martian meteorite. Designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, and nicknamed “Black Beauty,” the Martian meteorite weighs approximately 11 ounces (320 grams). Credit: NASA" (ScitechDaily, 4.45 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Points to Hot, Habitable Waters on Early Mars)

And maybe the same process was going on on Mars. But then some asteroid hit the red planet. That wiped out its seas and other things. The interesting thing would be how long that process was on Mars.  And then. We can think about things like what would happen if that meteorite or other catastrophe had not destroyed Mars. That could cause a situation. That there would be two intelligent species in our Solar system. 


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