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NASA spots strange structures on planet Mars
American Space agency, NASA has spotted strange piles of rocks on Mars which closely resemble the structures erected in the UK and Europe since prehistoric times.
Stargazers have identified ‘piles of boulders at regular intervals’ near the Red Planet’s North Pole.
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Nasa wrote: ‘What organized these boulders into neatly-spaced piles? In the Arctic back on Earth, rocks can be organized by a process called ‘frost heave’. ‘With frost heave, repeatedly freezing and thawing of the ground can bring rocks to the surface and organize them into piles, stripes, or even circles. ‘On Earth, one of these temperature cycles takes a year, but on Mars it might be connected to changes in the planet’s orbit around the Sun that take much longer.’
Barry DiGregorio, a researcher at Buckingham University, said Nasa’s Mars Rover found traces of alien lifeforms on Mars but did not investigate them properly.
DiGregorio hit the headlines earlier this year after he said ‘stick-like figures’ Nasa spotted on Mars resembled ‘trace fossils’ from the Ordovician era on Earth, which started about 485 million years ago.
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