A party hat-shaped object spotted on Mars is drawing renewed scrutiny, with some experts suggesting it could be evidence of something major while others offered a trashy explanation for the cone. The object — roughly 20 centimeters long with a flat end — was first photographed by NASA’s Curiosity Rover in 2022 in Gale Crater near the Red Planet’s equator, and flagged on March 8 by Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb in a post on Medium. “Should we just assume that the mysterious cylinder