> Is it perhaps the more comfortable of the two possibilities?
The more plausible of the two (Occam's razor). Even though it's highly unlikely to stumble on a spacecraft wreckage on Mars. It is even more unlikely for this to be an alien tech. Though, I do admit, I want it to be :)
I think Occams razor would dictate that it is just a weird looking piece of metal formed in the early days of mars, when there was more volcanic activity.
The more plausible of the two (Occam's razor). Even though it's highly unlikely to stumble on a spacecraft wreckage on Mars. It is even more unlikely for this to be an alien tech. Though, I do admit, I want it to be :)