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I'm skeptical, but a genuine question: If we had an "Earth rover" that took similar photographs as the Mars rover did, would it find examples of insect fossils
by scarmig 7y ago
I'm skeptical, but a genuine question:
If we had an "Earth rover" that took similar photographs as the Mars rover did, would it find examples of insect fossils?
If not, it seems like this is just seeing Jesus in a piece of toast.
- Enginerrrd 7y agoFor what it's worth, I've lived on earth my whole life and I've never seen an insect fossil outside of a museum.
- scarmig 7y agoSame, but I also don't know what to look for. I probably wouldn't know an insect fossil if I saw it. So even though the Mars structures look like noise to me, they probably would even if they were fossils.
- ivoras 7y agoSame here... lived my whole life on Earth an never seen Jesus on toast... seems like a shame, really.
- dekhn 7y agoYou can find surface fossils, but it's super-duper rare. However, you don't have to do much- basically anywhere there is a lot of sedimentary rock that has been recently uncovered you can expect to find fossils. So I would say if the rover just covered the surface, it would not see fossils unless you placed it in a likely area, and there were conditions that exposed fossils.