Bizarre Rock Spotted On Mars Is Being Compared To A Sex Toy

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars since 2012 and has made a number of strange and interesting discoveries. The newest of these being a rock that many Twitter users have claimed looks like a dildo.

Currently exploring the Gale Crater, the rover records pictures of Martian geology. Some of these images have been made available to the public - which is how freelance space writer Paul Scott Anderson made the bizarre discovery.

Check out this groovy rock that the Curiosity rover just found on Mars yesterday. 👀🪨🔴 pic.twitter.com/2xZuMrI3wF

— Paul Scott Anderson (@paulsanderson) February 15, 2022

Anderson's tweet about the rock immediately began making waves on Twitter, where people began to post what they thought the rock looked like.

I recognize that - it's a Martian female pleasure device - must have been dropped (not by me 😏)

— Your Inter-Galactic Friend (@MilkyWayFriend1) February 15, 2022

Martian pleasure stimulator device ;)

— abyss (@abyss03101148) February 17, 2022

Although some weren't as convinced that the rock looked like a dildo, but rather a high heel or a shoe horn.

That's an alien high heel 👠 ✌👽

— Ivan Salazar (@EMP_Wrecker) February 15, 2022

A Martian shoehorn! Now at least we know the shape of their foot.🤣😂

— Drew Williamson 🇨🇦 (@DrewWilliamson4) February 15, 2022

Conversation quickly turned to exactly how the rock had formed - and why does it look so smooth? One potential answer is the fact that scientists believe that Mars was once home to water.

Billions of years ago the planet was home to crater lakes, and when these craters were full the water would spill over and carve the valleys that can now be seen on the planet's surface.

If the rock came from a crater lake or a river it could have been eroded over billions of years.

Either that, or the Martians just want to get their rocks off.

Strangely, after posting about this discovery, Anderson received a cease and desist letter from NEO NFT - a company claiming that they own the image of the rock as an NFT, despite the image being made publicly available by NASA.

Somehow, even with all the talk of alien sex toys and shoe horns, this is perhaps the most bizarre of responses to Anderson's tweet.

The letter sent by NEO NFT claims that they have 'reserved all rights to the Rock' and ask that Anderson 'delete all reminants [sic] of rocks'. They also warn that the document cannot be shared with authorities as that is 'snitching'.

I had way more responses to my Mars rock tweet than I expected. But this one has to be the funniest/stupidest. Um, it’s a raw public NASA image straight from the Curiosity image archive. These guys also “sell NFTs that give you mining rights to near-Earth asteroids.” 🙄😅 pic.twitter.com/GDk5b9YeX6

— Paul Scott Anderson (@paulsanderson) February 16, 2022

NEO NFT claim to 'sell NFTs that give you mining rights to near-Earth asteroids' and the rights to alien sex toys apparently.

The image will likely stay up on Anderson Twitter and elsewhere seeing as it NASA's public image library, and not actually owned by NEO NFT.