In the photos taken 12 days apart, a rock is seen in the most recent picture on the right. A self-described scientist says it could be alien life.
A self-described scientist has filed a lawsuit alleging NASA is failing to properly investigate alien life.
Rhawn Joseph, who's written several books on extraterrestrial activity, wants the space agency to further analyze a strange rock on Mars, which he believes is proof of Martian activity.
The author claims researchers have not properly analyzed the stone, which somehow appeared in front of the Opportunity rover last week.
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Rhawn Joseph’s website. Joseph is suing NASA, claiming that the agency failed to properly investigate a rock found by one of its Mars rovers.
The jelly doughnut-shaped rock initially baffled scientists after it mysteriously showed up in images taken less than two weeks apart.
It's now believed it was simply knocked out of the ground by the planetary explorer.
But Joseph, a key writer with the online Journal of Cosmology, says the rock is "a living thing" and has now filed a lawsuit in a California court to make NASA examine it more closely.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (above) has been named in the lawsuit from Rhawn Joseph accusing the agency of not investigating alien life.
Aimed at the agency and its Administrator Charles Bolden, Popular Science reports the suit requests NASA "perform a public, scientific, and statutory duty."
To do this, it says, NASA needs to "closely photograph and thoroughly scientifically examine and investigate a putative biological organism."
Joseph claims the rock was there the whole time, but that it just grew before it became visible.
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‘Biological UFOs: Evidence for Extraterrestrial Extremophiles and Life in Space’ is a book written by Rhawn Joseph.
"The refusal to take close up photos from various angles ... to take microscopic images of the specimen ... to release high resolution photos, is inexplicable, recklessly negligent, and bizarre," his suit adds.
Joseph now wants Bolden and his rover team to take 100 high resolution close-up in focus photos of the rock from all sides under appropriate lightning conditions with minimum glare.
He also wants to see 24 microscopic, in-focus images of the exterior, lip, walls and interior of the specimen under appropriate lighting conditions.
And, finally, he wants the rover team to make all of the pictures available to him so he can analyze them himself.
NASA has yet to comment on the suit.
