Star warThe Mars rover has been on the red planet for nearly 14 years at this point, compiling a massive database of nearly 775,000 images. "This is a[n] unexploded missile laying on the surface of Mars just meter[s] from the NASA rover," Waring wrote about the photo. "We had them on Earth long ago, and they had them on Mars long ago," he claimed. "These kinds of open fractures are common in bedrock, both on Earth and on Mars," NASA added. This raised new questions about how long microbial life could have survived on Mars, NASA wrote.