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Fossils on Mars. Artwork

by

Space Channel/Novapix

Reference

a-mar99-11000

Date

2006-10-19

What humans hope to eventually find on the surface of Mars - the fossilised remains of organic life. The fossil models used in ths scene are a species of trilobites, whichcompletely dominated the Earth after the Cambrian explosion, some 500 million years ago.