not long ago astronomers would look at Mars and speculate that they have seen structures
that resemble cities Martian life became a major cuisine in pop culture and science fiction but
then we developed more advanced telescopes and astronomy took giant leaps we discovered that
the red planet is Barren and to the dismaying hopes of many dead smaller than Earth Mars
lost its internal heat very fast in the past and traces of huge volcano eruptions on its surface
like Olympus can be seen from Earth even without a professional telescope but volcano eruptions
on Mars stopped a long time ago as the planet's interior cooled and solidified the internal part
this cooling weakened its magnetic field and solar wind blew away the atmosphere
the remaining water froze life if any perished and the planet became a major
ingredient for alien plots and a probable second home for Humanity in the future
but what if there's more to it than meets the eye what if the Martians have successfully
hid themselves from us and from time to time they make faux pas that create headlines here on Earth
welcome to lab 360. it's time to explore in 1976 NASA's twin Viking Landers touched down on Mars
in an attempt to answer a weighty question is there life on the red planet Gilbert Levin
was the principal investigator of the Vikings labeled release life detection experiment the
instrument got positive responses for life at both Landing locales then in 1997 Levin concluded that
the experiment had indeed detected Life on Mars and he has championed that Viewpoint ever since
now more than four decades after the Viking Landings and with a lot more information
about Mars in hand Levin believes that NASA hasn't properly followed up on the Viking Landers results
I am certain that NASA knows there is life on Mars he said in a talk show
microbiologist Barry digregorio a researcher claimed that the space agency is covering up
aliens on Mars that it had found during its earlier missions he believes that the
discovery may have been willingly ignored because of the agency's plans for a manned mission to Mars
meanwhile NASA has described the shapes and images as rock crystals which are being analyzed
dick Gregorio who specializes in study of microscopic life in Earth's soil says the
patterns in images from the Curiosity Rover are similar to ordovision trace fossils he
photographed on Earth and are proof of soft-bodied life forms on the red planet over the years NASA
has recorded vast amounts of footage of Mars from photographs to videos to live streams from Rovers
well a South African researcher has been combing through some of it and uncovered
something very peculiar in images from 2006 what looks like a UFO that crashed on the red planet
Gene Ward was going through footage taken by the Mars reconnaissance Orbiter when he discovered
the odd sight at the bottom of the Candor chasma a large Canyon in Mars's Vias marinara system said
to be the planet's equivalent of the Grand Canyon in fact it is considered the largest known Canyon
in the solar system and Gene focused on what he called a strange Trench at the end of the trench
there is a perfect disc that is mostly covered in sand and debris and behind it we have random Dunes
Ward goes on to note it looks like a disc shaped craft or object that came in at a very low angle
and crashed into the surface of Mars leaving this strange behind it he then Zooms in more on the
disc shaped object which he surmises is 40 to 50 feet in diameter pointing out that that is about
the same width as the trench behind it he adds it looks like a disc that's partially elevated
on one side as it plowed into the surface while some commenters wrote off the discovery as a sand
dune or space junk others felt it was something much more significant calling it up great find and
writing things like there is really nothing else it could be other than a crashed saucer-shaped
object I know they are afraid of contamination but still I wish NASA would investigate back in 2013
the media was set Ablaze by reports of what looked like a rodent lurking among the rocks on Mars
the image was immediately dubbed as the Mars rat and was spotted by NASA rover curiosity's masked
camera when reached out this is what NASA said clearly it results from you know a lot of things
like wind erosion and mechanical abrasion and break down chemical weathering of the Rocks as
to why they get these weird shapes and as you can tell there wasn't a lot of motivation among
Mission scientists to investigate the Mars rat further as such the Curiosity Rover began its
drive away from the Petrified rodent curiosity scientists tend to be amused when people see
rodents lizards and other recognizable shapes in the Rocks photographed by the Rover in a
recent development the perseverance Mars Rover operated by NASA has encountered an intriguing
Rocky formation resembling a donut raising the possibility that it could have fallen from the sky
the Rover captured an image of a large dark stone with a distinctive hole at its Center
surrounding it are other rocks with a similar Hue indicating a potential shared origin that might
extend beyond the Martian surface scientists from The seti Institute in Mountain View California
suggested that the donut Rock could be a sizable meteorite accompanied by smaller fragments
this kind of Discovery would not be unprecedented as perseverance had
previously identified a potential meteorite shortly after its touchdown in February 2021.
additionally its predecessor the Curiosity Rover has encountered numerous space rocks on Mars
since its arrival in August 2012 including a metallic One affectionately named cacao
interestingly this is not the first time a Mars Rover has encountered a rock resembling a pastry
back in January 2014 NASA's opportunity Rover came across a stone that exhibited
a white exterior and a red interior leading the mission team to link it to a jelly donut
but such claims the result of a psychological phenomenon called periodolia which refers to
the human brain's tendency to spot familiar things in random images are not necessarily
A Bad Thing NASA added another image from NASA's Curiosity Rover of an unusual rock
structure on Mars sparked some conjecture about alien passageways on the red planet the rocks
on Mars are known for their unusual appearances ever since this image was released to the general
public there's been a lot of speculation asking what might have caused a doorway-like passage
to appear on the side of a Mars Hill curiosity's mass-mounted camera took the picture in a series
of raw photographs a UFO fanatic deciphered the image which looks like an entrance to a
secret underground tunnel by providing a broader look at the surrounding landscape
this led the people to ask questions like is this the proof we've been looking for our entire lives
will we finally be able to see aliens but the doorway turned out to be not a doorway at all
it's just a small crevice on a martian Hill that looks like an interdimensional Passage
since Mars surface isn't anything like the Earth its images can be very tricky a strangely
eroded Rock can resemble a fish a cliff with backlighting can resemble the profile of a face
cropped images and zoomed in views can magnify small details
if the Shadows were falling at a different angle it would make the doorway very uninteresting
the scientists at Nasa emphasized on how small the crevice actually is
it's only about 30 by 45 centimeters wide while we can't be positive if martians use
little doorways NASA felt confident that the door in this case was simply a small rocky crevice
this isn't meant to take away from the excitement of discovering strangely shaped
rocks and landscape characteristics on Mars the fact that we have wheeled robots roaming around in
the Gale crater transmitting back photographs from another planet is arguably the most magical aspect
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