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Nasa ground a Martian brain
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Wretch Fossil
2011-01-25 09:39:20 UTC
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Nasa ground a Martian brain

Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity ground a Martian brain on
sol 2485 (Jan. 20, 2011), as evidenced in Figure 1:

Figure 1: marked for brain cells exposed by grinding
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556267555&p=151

Photo source and credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/5381098058/

Earthly brain cells for comparison:
http://www.google.com.tw/images?hl=zh-TW&biw=796&bih=420&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=brain+cell&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E5%B0%8B&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=
Wretch Fossil
2011-01-26 07:12:47 UTC
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NasagroundaMartianbrain
Nasa’sMars Exploration Rover OpportunitygroundaMartianbrainon
Figure 1: marked forbraincells exposed by  grindinghttp://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556267555&p=151
Photo source and credit:http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/5381098058/
Earthlybraincells for comparison:http://www.google.com.tw/images?hl=zh-TW&biw=796&bih=420&gbv=2&tbs=is...
Added on Jan. 26, 2011:

Additional five brain cells labelled in
Figure 2: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556267556&p=152

Carboniferous human neuroglia for comparison:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=19&f=1328514834&p=21

Textbook illustration of neuroglia:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=19&f=1328506892&p=28
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