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Sascha Pare

NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars

Image of a coral-shaped rock taken by Curiosity at the Gale Crater on Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars.

The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, wind-eroded rock, which the rover found inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on July 24 — but it looks remarkably similar to the reef-building creatures found in Earth's oceans.

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