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A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars
- tokai 8y agoI once read someone stating that one geologist with a hammer could could do more science in an afternoon, than all of our rover missions have done combined. We wouldn't have known about the moon glass beads if we hadn't gone there to stumble upon them. Who knows how many wonderful discoveries Mars has waiting for us. Fossils would definitely be on the top of my wish list.
- darkpuma 8y agoIt would be truly shocking of macro-scale fossils visible to the naked eye were found (although perhaps fossils of large microbial mattes or films could be found that way?) I suspect fossil hunting on Mars would require a microscope, though I would expect there to be a lot of more mundane geology work a geologist with a hammer could get done quickly.