 Was there ever life on Mars? Could there indeed still be life there to this day? Questions that man has asked since the beginning of time. A rocky planet covered in red soil, locked in the Goldilocks zone, like ourselves, our seemingly dead neighbor, whom has also been orbiting our life-giving star just as we have for billions of years. Thus its past, just like our own, remains a complete mystery. Ancient questions have yet to be asked and are yet to be answered. The list of mysteries to be solved has simply deepened. With more modern questions such as, what has kept cleaning our Mars rover? A question we have pondered upon before. Curiosity first landed on the planet in 2012, far exceeding its estimated lifespan now by several years. Yet what many are not aware of is that on its downtime, on several occasions, the rover has started up in the morning sun and has somehow been found to have been mysteriously cleaned during the night. Yet the most compelling question of them all has only recently surfaced, an object spotted on the surface. Pictured within an ancient lakebed known as Gale, it is undoubtedly one of the most incredible objects we have yet to see. Not only does there seem to be spines, like an ancient water-bound animal would indeed have had. Astrobiologist Natalie A. Cabral, who shared the image, commented that, in 20 years of studying Mars, it's the most bizarre rock she has ever seen, stating that, she cannot wait to have a microscopic image of this one. Many people have commented on the post, many agreeing that the stone indeed looks far more like a bone than anything else so far found on the planet, so far disclosed at least. Last June, Curiosity also discovered some strange twisting structures, seemingly the remnant of botanical life forms. Experts claim the columns were probably created from cement-like substances that once filled the cracks of Martian bedrock. In February of 2022, the rover captured an image of what appeared to be a coral-like flower also within the Gale crater. Could we finally be uncovering ancient life on Mars? Could there once have been an ancient civilization on Mars, one that will seemingly have to be admitted to, before we land and indeed colonize the planet? As these facts will inevitably be revealed as time reveals all. We find such possibilities highly compelling.