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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover photographed a puzzling rock that sports a series of strange spikes protruding from it. The odd find was reportedly made earlier this month as the exploratory scientific vehicle was roaming around the Red Planet's Gale crater. Highlighting the wondrous find on social media, prominent astrobiologist Nathalie A. Cabrol marveled that "in 20 years of studying Mars, that's the most bizarre rock I have ever seen" and then mused that "I cannot wait to have a microscopic image" of the unusual specimen.
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