If Martians use cooking utensils, one would assume that they're all high-tech, sci-fi ones. Forks that shoot lightning, knives that deflect blaster bolts, that kind of thing. It seemed like this might actually be the case in September 2015 when Curiosity spotted a spoon hovering just above the ground on a Martian hillside. There is of course a natural explanation for this bizarre image. The weaker gravity on Mars allows for rock formations that one would never expect to see on Earth. Under the right weathering conditions, a long spindly arm of rock like this could start to form on our own planet but it would likely snap under its own weight before reaching these proportions. So despite looking completely infeasible, everything going on in this photo is totally above board, according to expert geologists. Just your everyday rocky spoon jutting out from a cliff face.
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