curiosity

Best album EVER.

Sadly, it's not a lost civilization, just a rock after eons of being beaten by the wind.

This does NOT mean that anything ever actually lived there. But it is the first time that the ingredients for the evolution of microbial life, and the correct conditions to support it, have been directly observed beyond Earth. Mars still has water frozen at its poles, and once had quite a bit of water above and below the surface.