Sol 3311: Mast Camera (Mastcam) This image was taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3311 (2021-11-29T01:29:08.000Z) Credit: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw\_images/991751/?site=msl

A raw image from the Mast camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, taken on 2022–08–07 at 20:58:23 UTC, displays a mysterious cylinder buried in the Martian regolith of the Paraitepuy Pass — a narrow gap in the Gale Crater situated on the slopes of Mount Sharp. This puzzling object was discovered in NASA’s database by Rami Bar Ilan and brought to my attention by Dr. Jan Špaček — who studies signatures of life on Mars and Professor Carol Cleland — who studies anomalies from a phil...

Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb discusses the cylindrical object photographed on Mars by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Mastcam on August 7, 2022: “The shiny object has a perfectly round cylindrical shape with a length of about 20 centimeters and a flat end.”