- [Voiceover] Often times humans
have a tendency to see patterns
where there aren't any.
However, what most people don't mention
is that apophenia,
or the human tendency to assign
meaningful patterns to otherwise random data,
is closely linked to an imminent onset of schizophrenia.
This human predilection can be found with this
distrubing picture of the Mars face,
this photograph of the Martian trees,
as well as this photograph of alleged ruins
of an ancient civilization on the side of a Martian cliff.
Every time strange and unexplained photots
are captured by our rovers and probes,
officials are always quick to dismiss them.
Others, however, remain certain that there
is more out there in our solar system
than what we've been told.
And surely they can't all be schizophrenic.
The truth is no one really knows
what lies beyond our planet.
And most of the Martian wilderness
still is yet to be explored.
Either way, some photos of Mars
simply cannot be explained away.
These are the five most mysterious photos from Mars.
Number five is the mystery light.
Captured by the NASA Curiosity rover
this strange photograph was transmitted
back to Earth after Curiosity's 589th consecutive
day on the surface of Mars.
Despite the many conspiracy theories
surrounding this photograph,
no one really knows the source
of this unknown beam of light.
What makes the beam of light more unnerving
is that it appeared only in the right camera
of the Curiosity rover and was not present
in the image taken a fraction of a second later
in the rover's left camera.
The only explanation NASA scientists could offer
is that the beam of light was just glare from a rock
or a cosmic ray striking the rover's camera.
These explanations, however, do not explain the fact
that the same light was also present in a photograph
captured by the rover just hours beforehand.
Number four is the monolith.
In 2012, after looking over photographs
of the Martian surface,
amateur astronomers noticed this strange object
looming over the landscape.
This strange square shaped object was captured
by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
as it passed over Mars' surface.
These photos are uncanny
because the object is almost a perfect square,
and it appears to even be an artificial creation.
Some estimate that the Martian monolith
is approximately five meters in diameter.
Not everyone has dismissed this picture
as just a conspiracy theory.
As the famous astronaut Buzz Aldrin
even encouraged NASA to investigate sightings
of a similar monolith on the Martian moon of Phobos.
For now though, no one knows the origin
of this strange artificial structure.
Number three is the the blotch.
Following a 350 million mile,
253 day long journey,
NASA's Curiosity rover was lowered onto the surface
of Mars from its landing module,
where it would then snap this unusual photo
with its rear navigation camera only seconds after landing.
The camera shutter on the Curiosity rover
had only been operational for 200 milliseconds
before it captured this fuzzy photo
that shows a mysterious blotch on the horizon.
After two hours had passed, the rover relayed
high resolution photographs to a
waiting satellite orbiting Mars.
By the time these higher resolution photos were transmitted,
the blotch had disappeared.
The photo only led to wild speculation
that the blotch was an incomprehensible
alien intelligence watching the rover.
Called a statistical impossibility,
the photo is now thought to capture the moment
Curiosity's lander crashed into the Marian surface.
But the truth is there is no definitive explaination
for this vanishing blotch.
And number two is the caves of Mars.
Recent flybys of Mars with state of the art cameras
have only captured stranger photos than ever before.
One of these strange photographs
is this massive cavern that was spotted
inside of a crater on the surface of Mars.
Other dark holes have been spotted
on Mars in the past,
and so far none of them have been explored.
These caverns are larger than any on Earth
and they are thought to be the remnants
of lava tunnels that once stretched across
the surface of Mars.
The question remains, however,
how deep do these strange caverns go
and what is inside of them?
Scientists have commented that due to
the inhospitable conditions of the Martian surface
these caverns could possibly harbor primitive forms of life
or even human settlements in the future.
But until these dark caverns are investigated,
we will never know.
And number one is the Martian.
The resemblance between this creature and humans
is almost unnerving.
Some claim this photo shows a bipedal extraterrestrial
standing over the surface of Mars.
Others however, say that this photograph means
nothing and is just our minds trying to assign a shape
to otherwise meaningless rock formations
on the surface of Mars.
Until these strange photographs
are investigated up close,
it's likely they will forever remain
the subject of fierce debate for decades to come.
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