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'Dog door' on Mars found by Curiosity rover is just geological feature NASA says

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EXCERPTS: Over the past week, the internet has been wild over images of what appears as a doorway cut into a cliff on Mars. But scientists behind NASA's Curiosity rover, which snapped the pictures earlier this month, said that while the strange door-like feature on Mars provides a fascinating "doorway into the ancient past," it is perfectly natural rather than the work of some aliens in hiding.

The Curiosity rover found the Mars "door" on May 7 while imaging a mound known as the East Cliffs in the Gale Crater, which the rover has been exploring since its landing in 2012. [...] "These kinds of open fractures are common in bedrock, both on Earth and on Mars," NASA said in the statement.

[...] "Sure, it may look like a tiny door, but really, it's a natural geologic feature! It may just *look* like a door because your mind is trying to make sense of the unknown," the Curiosity team said in a Twitter thread. "There are several linear fractures in the mound, but in this spot, several fractures intersect, which allows the rock to break at such sharp angles." (MORE - missing details)

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