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<p>Conspiracy theorists have gotten the green light to chatter about another strange object on the Red Planet. This time it's not a <a href="https://twitter.com/RealMarsRat" target="_hplink">Mars rat</a> or a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/mystery-mars-rock-opportunity-rover-closer-look_n_4643524.html" target="_hplink">jelly doughnut</a> that's been spotted in a photo taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, but a "traffic signal."</p><p>The extraterrestrial "signal" was spotted by a British <a href="http://www.artalien.tv/latest/4584191707" target="_hplink">UFO enthusiast named Joseph White</a>. Curiosity snapped the photo at 1:08 a.m. EDT on sol 753 (Sept. 19). You can see the original <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0753ML0032370000400001E01_DXXX&s=753" target="_hplink">here</a>.</p><p><img alt="mars traffic light" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2100108/thumbs/o-MARS-TRAFFIC-LIGHT-570.jpg?6" /></p><p>"I have been following the <a href="http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Bristol-space-enthusiast-spots-traffic-light-Nasa/story-22980215-detail/story.html" target="_hplink">images from NASA</a> since the start and I flick through them on the NASA website every day," White said, according to the Western Daily Press. "I saw this one and I thought 'Hang on, that looks a bit strange.'"</p><p>While White said he believes what he spotted is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ibaJ5hPog&list=PLXguZryPDCIFiZU8ufGz5xBTzPXwy2CrB" target="_hplink">"clearly intelligently designed,"</a> as he wrote on his latest video on the Youtube Channel ArtAlienTV-Mars Zoo, the formation is most likely just a rock.</p><p>Earlier this week, blogger <a href="http://themeridianijournal.com/about/about-me/" target="_hplink">Paul Scott Anderson</a> noticed a <a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/curiosity-finds-a-weird-ball-on-mars-140924.htm" target="_hplink">weird "ball" on Mars</a>. But NASA scientists said this was just a spherical rock likely formed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion" target="_hplink">concretion</a>, a process by which minerals harden and get compacted, according to Discovery News.</p><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>A nice round Martian "blueberry" (concretion?) from sol 746, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Curiosity?src=hash">#Curiosity</a>. Right side of image. <a href="http://t.co/IDwVsCznz2">pic.twitter.com/IDwVsCznz2</a></p><p>— Meridiani Journal (@themeridjournal) <a href="https://twitter.com/themeridjournal/status/514623949217759233">September 24, 2014</a></p></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><p>Other odd-looking objects seen in photos from Mars include an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/11-rocks-on-mars-illusions_n_5697695.html" target="_hplink">iguana, a finger, a skull, and a thigh bone</a>.</p><p>But they're all just rocks.</p>
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<p style="display: none;">This artist's concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface. ChemCam fires laser pulses at a target and views the resulting spark with a telescope and spectrometers to identify chemical elements. The laser is actually in an invisible infrared wavelength, but is shown here as visible red light for purposes of illustration. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">The Atlas V 541 vehicle was selected for the Mars Science Laboratory mission because it has the right liftoff capability for the heavy weight requirements of the rover and its spacecraft. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars. The spacecraft includes a disc-shaped cruise stage (on the left) attached to the aeroshell. The spacecraft's rover (Curiosity) and descent stage are tucked inside the aeroshell. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">The Curiosity rover is safely tucked inside the spacecraft's aeroshell. The mission's approach phase begins 45 minutes before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. It lasts until the spacecraft enters the atmosphere. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">The Curiosity rover and the spacecraft's descent stage are safely tucked inside the aeroshell at this point. The aeroshell includes a heat shield (on the right, facing in the direction of travel through the atmosphere) and backshell. The diameter of the aeroshell is 14.8 feet (4.5 meters), the largest ever used for a mission to Mars. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">The mission's entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of Martian atmosphere, about 81 miles (131 kilometers) above the surface of the Gale crater landing area, and ends with the rover safe and sound on the surface of Mars. During the approximately seven minutes of EDL, the spacecraft decelerates from a velocity of about 13,200 miles per hour (5,900 meters per second) at the top of the atmosphere, to stationary on the surface. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">This artist's concept depicts the interaction of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the upper atmosphere of Mars during the entry, descent and landing of the Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">This is an artist's concept of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover parachute system.</p>
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<p style="display: none;">This is an artist's concept of NASA's Curiosity rover tucked inside the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's backshell while the spacecraft is descending on a parachute toward Mars. The parachute is attached to the top of the backshell. In the scene depicted here, the spacecraft's heat shield has already been jettisoned.</p>
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<p style="display: none;">This is an artist's concept of the rover and descent stage for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during the final minute before the rover, Curiosity, touches down on the surface of Mars. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">The entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase of the Mars Science Laboratory mission begins when the spacecraft reaches the Martian atmosphere, about 81 miles (131 kilometers) above the surface of the Gale crater landing area, and ends with the rover Curiosity safe and sound on the surface of Mars.</p>
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<p style="display: none;">This artist's concept depicts the moment that NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface.</p>
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<p style="display: none;">This artist's concept depicts the moment immediately after NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">In this picture, the mast, or rover's "head," rises to about 2.1 meters (6.9 feet) above ground level, about as tall as a basketball player. This mast supports two remote-sensing instruments: the Mast Camera, or "eyes," for stereo color viewing of surrounding terrain and material collected by the arm; and, the ChemCam instrument, which is a laser that vaporizes material from rocks up to about 9 meters (30 feet) away and determines what elements the rocks are made of. </p>
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<p style="display: none;">This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. </p>
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