Aliens? ALIENS??

 

The Daily Mail never misses an opportunity for a tabloid-level headline. Well, it is a tabloid, after all.

NASA spots 'spiderwebs' on never-before-explored region of Mars that could be linked to aliens

OK, let's take a look at what NASA really saw. That is described in the following article:

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Takes a Last Look at Mysterious Sulfur

"Viewed by MRO [Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter], the boxwork looks like spiderwebs stretching across the surface. It’s believed to have formed when minerals carried by Mount Sharp’s last pulses of water settled into fractures in surface rock and then hardened. As portions of the rock erode.

On Earth, boxwork formations have been seen on cliffsides and in caves. But Mount Sharp’s boxwork structures stand apart from those both because they formed as water was disappearing from Mars and because they’re so extensive, spanning an area of 6 to 12 miles (10 to 20 kilometers)."

OK, so they are geological. So what about the aliens? Back to the Daily Mail:

"The likelihood that evidence of aquatic microbial life of Mars might be caught in this giant web as fossils 'makes this an exciting place to explore,' Dr Siebach noted.

This web of potential dead alien microbes and bugs rests in the shadow of a three-mile tall mountain, officially known as 'Aeolis Mon,' but nicknamed 'Mount Sharp.'

So they would be dead aliens, if they are there (or if they were there). '

What the boxwork looks like is shown below.  The blue star was just a reference point, but this picture provides a scale.