(NASA/JPL-Caltech via SWNS) By Talker

By Dean Murray

Is there life on Mars ? Or maybe just a turtle?

A bizarre picture taken by a rover on the Red Planet appears to show what looks like a distinctive shelled reptile.

NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the intriguing rock on Aug. 31 and stopped to snap a photograph.

(ESA/MPS et al. via SWNS) By Talker

It was exploring Jezero Crater, a roughly 45 km-wide ancient impact crater that once held a lake fed by a river delta, making it a prime site for searching for signs of past microbial life.

Online reaction to the "turtle" has included "Mars rocks never fail to surprise-Perseverance keeps finding strange shapes," and "Wild to think we're seeing rocks on another planet in such detail."

It comes in the week the space agency announ

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