TL;DR: they have found patterns on a rock that are similar to stuff that forms with microbial life. But it could have also formed in a non-lifey way. They need to investigate further to know what's up.
But it could have also formed in a non-lifey way.
Then I guess that's what it is.
As the golden rule states: it's never aliens.
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A later NASA mission will attempt to collect the rover's samples and bring them to Earth for closer analysis in laboratory conditions.
Damn I didn't expect thats. Sounds cool as hell, hope they manage it.
I don’t. I mean, do you want a sci-fi horror movie? Because this is how a sci-fi horror movie starts.
Film 1 is the crew desperately trying to make it home in the prologue and dying, then the alien mind control worms slowly take over a NASA research facility until it's finally eradicated in the closing scene, with Sigourney Weaver the lone human survivor. But if you wait until after the credits, you get a 5-second teaser of a single worm wriggling out through a crack in the side of the facility.
The "fi" being the important part here.
Headline is a bit overstated.
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