Date of discovery: Aug 7, 2026
Location of discovery: Mars
Photo data: MER Opportunity rover, Sol 121
While searching through rover photos on Mars I came across something that really…was unexpected, even by me. I found a figure of a bipedal species that was clearly fossilized and fallen into a crater. I believe it might have been standing up at the craters edge but over time and Mars storms…slid down the hill. Its head falling off and rolling a few meters below it. The body is a little over 3 meters tall minus with the head. Its long arm and shoulder very visible and being held to its side along its hips, its chest huge indicating its a very muscular species, its two legs visible which tells us it a bipedal species.
I did say fossilized…because if this species were to live on Mars…it would have to be silica base not carbon based like humans. Which means it could withstand the heat of Mars, lack of water and its body would not be soft flesh and bones, but instead a silica mesh within its body and possibly an exoskeleton too…which all mean it could not only live on Mars…but also thrive on Mars, and when it dies, it would not break down so easily like a human body would.
Scientists have debated other possible intelligent life forms existing as non carbon based for decades, but I believe…the evidence for them existing is right here in this NASA rover photo.
