The mars Reconaissance orbiter recently photographed a formation on mars that looks exactly like
the star trek chevron logo.
Are you kidding me?
It doesn’t get much cooler than that.
And I’m going to tell you everything we know about this formation, right now on IO.
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I’m charlotte dobre and over at the studio we are celebrating the Toronto raptors win.
What a game, what a season, Toronto was absolute mayhem last night.
I think I’m probably the only person in the city that isn’t hung over right now.
But lets get back on topic and talk about this insane star trek formation on mars.
Twitter is buzzing about a formation the nasa reconnaissance orbiter photographed on mars.
It looks exactly like the logo worn on the uniforms of the original star trek TV series.
Which is like, I’m sorry an insane coincidence, if it is a coincidence.
Humans have yet to make the trek—see what I did there- to mars, but this photo is making
people think that deep space explorers have already beat us to the punch.
Even Captain kirk, aka William shatner tweeted Hey starwars, will you hurry up you rebel
scums!
We beat you!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like the star trek logo on mars is little
more than a natural formation.
Ross Beyer of the University of Arizona said in a statement ‘enterprising viewers make
the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo.
But then, he also said that its only a coincidence.
So what exactly caused this strange formation?
Well, sadly the logo is not evidence of space explorers beating us to the red planet.
It’s a combination of wind, sand, sand dunes and lava.
Lots and lots of lava.
The formation was the result of a volcanic eruption at the bottom of an impact basin
from a very long time ago.
The sand ended up formingcrescent shaped dunes, and there’s actually a name for them, barchans
dunes.
Throw a little wind in there, and as the lava flowed, it parted around them.
Then as the lava cooled and hardened, it hardened around the dunes.
Winds on mars did their work, the sand on the dunes bew away, and now just the lava
remains.
As you can see from this photo, theres actually multiple formations like this in a row, relatively
close to each other.
There are close to 300 of these formations in the Hellas Planita, which is an area of
mars that’s a large plain in the southern hemisphere of mars.
Apparently there another 480 of them have been seen in a region of mars called the Noctis
Labrinthus The nasa Reconaissance orbiter has been photographing
the surface of mars since 2006.
Its photographed all kinds of strage formations over the last several years.
Formations that look like Beaker the muppet, and also pac man.
The reconassance orbiter is a source of vital communications relay for nasa’s curiosity
rover and insight lander, and its also going to support the mars 2020 rover mission, which
will also lay the foundations for human settlements on mars.
Humans are expected to touch down on mars in a little over a decade, and even though
its not impossible to get humans to mars, its not going to be easy.
Since 1971, there have been 18 attempts to land rovers on mars and 11 of the attempts
failed.
But the 2020 rover mission is equipped with the best technology on planet earth.
It has an updated guidance system that will help with safer landings called Terrain Relative
Navigation.
The system finds out where the spacecraft is headed by taking pictures during the decent,
and matching the landmarks into a preloaded map.
The spacecraft will be able to decifer which terrain is dangerous, and be able to change
its landing target to somewhere safer.
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