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The Discarded Spoon

An apparent “spoon” on Mars.
An apparent “spoon” on Mars. Image: (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Oh hey, a spoon on Mars. Either NASA’s Curiosity rover crashed a Martian picnic, or it’s a fortuitously shaped rock formation. And weirdly, it’s not the first spoon to be spotted on the Red Planet. If it is a bona fide spoon, however, Martians probably used it to eat this jelly donut.