They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But what may be even more rare, if not considered more precious yet, are black diamonds.

No one has ever uncovered a black diamond in a mining field. Black diamonds have only been found in Brazil and the Central African Republic and if two scientists from Florida International University are correct, they may be even more rare than we thought.

In a paper published online in the Atrophysical Journal Letters, Jozsef Garai and Stephen Haggerty, along with Case Western Reserve University researchers Sandeep Rekhi and Mark Chance, claim that black diamonds originated in outer space.

Black diamonds, called carbonado, are not formed in the way conventional diamonds are and their high hydrogen composition leads scientists to place their origin in interstellar space.

According to Haggerty, carbonado diamonds are formed in stellar supernovae explosions and were once the size of asteroids when they first landed on earth.

A Mars satellite is sending back some of the most detailed images of the planet ever taken. The camera beaming images back to earth is called HiRISE, or Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (you can see why the acronym is important). For those of us who are part of the first generation in space, this is exciting stuff.

Now one of the fabulous new photos is bound to be a big disappointment. I am sure we have all seen this picture of the famous Face On Mars before in numerous places.

Now based on this low resolution picture from the Viking Orbiter I taken in 1976, a popular conspiracy theory arose that it was an artificial structure created by highly intelligent extraterrestial life forms that NASA was hiding from us. Now the HiRISE has sent back some excellent pictures, showing that unfortunately, it is just an outcropping of a rock formation.

Scientists will continue to receive new images until October 6. They are looking for evidence of longstanding bodies of water on the surface.

It is expected that once it is proved that the Happy Face crater and the Mars Valentine Heart are not outer space alien greeting cards to earthlings, thousands of websites will be taken down until the owners have figured out how NASA faked the HiRISE pictures to cover up their plot to keep average citizens from contacting extraterrestrial life.