Photo by Curiosity rover, source: NASA.
Enthusiast and space explorer from Canada Paul Scott Anderson posted on Twitter a photo of an unusual Martian rock taken by the Curiosity rover on February 13 and published in the public domain by NASA. The strange look and curves of the edges of the fact of a small stone caused quite a heated discussion about its origin on the network.
Scientists and experts agreed that this stone was eroded several billion years ago. It was carefully processed by water, for example, it was in the bed of a stream or a small river, which gave it such a shape that wind and sand have been modifying for many millions of years.
This photo shows that in fact this stone is small - a few centimeters in length.
Other rocks around Curiosity at the location where the strange object was filmed.
Anderson said that he received a lot of feedback and suggestions from different users about this stone. But here is one notice on this publication caused him a misunderstanding. He received a request for copyright from a company that allegedly sells NFT tokens of various space rocks and asteroids, and not made by the company itself, but by any space stations and vehicles.
Anderson clarified that the notice from NEO NFT demanded that the picture with the stone be removed from the publication within three days, since he did not buy its NFT token from them. Moreover, in the description of the company it was indicated that the purchase of an NFT token with images of space rocks or asteroids gives the owners of these tokens the full right to mine minerals on near-Earth space objects, although this can only be done in NFT mock-places.
The enthusiast scored on this notification and did not react to the demands of the NFT troll. Judging by the appearance of the notification, it was sent out by an automatic system in the hope that the recipient would get scared and take action to buy an NFT token.
In 2021, NFT sales have grown to $25 billion, and there is a lot of plagiarism and fakes. Anyone can create an NFT, but owning a token does not confer ownership of the original product, such as paintings from an art gallery or drawings by authors. News of token scams has become more commonplace than out of the ordinary. Some online stores and companies are outright claiming that NFT is a scam and criticizing people's ambitions for tokens.
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