Mars bone was a false positive

Lauren Keating 8/24 (Follows space news for tech times, NASA confirms Mars thigh bone is not an
alien fossil, 8/24/2014)

The 'thigh bone' that was found on Mars is not what it appears to be.
NASA says that the photo of what appears to be Martian fossils is just weathered
rock. NASA's Curiosity rover captured a photo on Mars that went viral after appearing on a UFO blog.
The image shows fragments on Mars' dirt surface, one particular elongated rock resembling a leg bone.
The media picked up news of the potential evidence and concluded that there is life on other plants, which
led to NASA to officially provide an explanation. "No bones about it! Seen by Mars rover Curiosity using its

this Mars rock may look like a femur thigh bone," NASA writes. "Mission
science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind
or water."
MastCam,

Even if their is life on Mars, it is microscopic and

harmless
Telegraph View 12/17 (Represents the editorial opinion of the Telegraph News Dec. 17, 2014)
H G Wells saw the Red Planet as an existential threat, and David Bowie asked the pertinent question: Is

results from Nasas Curiosity rover indicate that

something is producing high levels of methane, but they dont know
what. The mind boggles. Much of the methane on earth is produced by decomposing organic life or by
there life on Mars? Now

what is politely referred to as enteric emissions from farm animals. The Curiosity studies suggest methane
is still being created near the planets Gale Crater. What might a future Mars-bound astronaut find there?

perhaps gas left by long-extinct

microbes continues to be released into the atmosphere or methaneproducing organisms survive. It may not quite presage a War of the Worlds; but
it does suggest we are not entirely alone in the Solar System.
We can rule out a herd of flatulent Martian cattle but