Has NASA's Mars Rover discovered a secret alien passageway?
Discover the truth about this disturbing photograph.
Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, has returned with a startling photograph from the red planet.
The picture depicts a carved entrance within a rock formation, which appears to be a secret
gateway for aliens.
But was it truly so?
Did NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity recently discover a hidden extraterrestrial lair?
That has been the query on the internet for a while when a weird photograph from Mars
was published by the rover.
A finely carved rectangular gateway in a geological formation could be observed in the viral photograph.
Many netizens (interest enthusiasts), as I like to call them, were perplexed by this
photograph, assuming it to be a secret entry for aliens.
It would be remarkable if we discovered proof of aliens in this manner after looking for
them in every crevice of the cosmos.
However, scientists are certain that this exquisitely crafted door could only have been
created by an intelligent race.
So, the question now is, are there aliens?
And have they decided to live in caverns on Mars?
On May 7, the NASA Mars Rover Curiosity's Mast Camera mastcam captured the photograph.
The picture was taken at Greenheugh Pediment, a geological area where the rover was collecting
samples and examining the terrain.
The image in question appeared to be a doorway within a large rock formation, which is commonly
seen on our planet as evidence of ancient civilizations' caves or entrances.
The similarity between the two has led many people to believe that it was created by an
ancient Martian civilization.
However, this is not the case.
This compelling visual, according to Science Alert, may have little to do with aliens.
The doorway looks to be a shear crack in the rock structure.
That might have formed as a consequence of the tension on the rock that caused a piece
of it to break off.
Earthquakes on the globe are another possible cause of this.
According to reports, NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity has been subjected to a number of earthquakes
since arriving on Mars, with the greatest occurring for a few days.
Another fascinating element about the photograph that many people overlooked is that, despite
how it looks, the door-like sculpture is most likely only a few millimeters wide.
A larger, colorized variant of the photograph shows the overall scale of the structure and
how massive the entryway appears to be in comparison.
For those who are having difficulty locating the door, it is placed towards the top of
the photo, towards the left corner.
Several indicators indicate that the image's subject is not a real door: For starters,
it's only around 3 feet (1 meter) tall, according to planetary geologist Nicholas Mangold of
the University of Nantes in France, who informed Live Science in an email.
Or could it be that the Martians are very small creatures?
And science fiction movies have deceived us all this time.
Other online jokes include the concept that it is the intergalactic tomb of Jesus, a cradle
for E.T., or a save-point for a computer game, according to the Vice website.
But the truth is that it is none of these things.
What seems to be a door is actually just a small hole in the rock formed by natural processes.
So, if it's not a doorway, what could it be?
Hodgson, a vice president of the British geoscience business, believes erosion is to blame for
the "door."
On the rock, strata are rocky layers that dip to the left and rise to the right.
"These are silt beds with firmer sandy layers that stick out," he explained in an email
to Live Science.
"They were probably deposited 4 billion years ago under sedimentary settings, maybe in a
river (I'd need to examine more of the outcrop to be sure) or a wind-blown dune."
The strata have been worn by Martian winds since they were revealed on the surface, and
the photos reveal signs of them within the "door," he added.
Several naturally vertical fractures are apparent in the picture, including cracks created by
how rocks weather on Mars, and the little cave or "door" appears to have developed where
the vertical fractures cross with the strata, he added.
According to him, the door-shaped cave was formed by "a massive boulder falling out under
its weight."
"On Mars, gravity isn't as powerful, but it's strong enough to do something."
The culprit is a boulder resting on the ground just to the right of the "door," which looks
to have a smooth vertical edge-presumably because it fell out lately and hasn't been
exposed to Martian winds for long.
He described it as "all quite natural, and comparable to outcrops you may find in many
desert locations on Earth."
Mangold, who examines seismic data from the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, believes
the Martian "door" was formed naturally by the rock structure.
"These are two-way cracks that create an 'open box' with a door look – nothing fake," Mangold
explained.
Internet conjecture has suggested that the little door-shaped cave was produced by a
seismic "Marsquake"—two of the greatest Marsquakes ever recorded occurred in late
2021.
But Mangold is skeptical: "The entire mountain is gravely shattered; there's no need for
large Marsquakes," he says.
Instead, the fractures might have occurred before the rock was exposed due to the hydraulic
pressure of water in its crevices, or they could be the consequence of thermal stress
generated by the rock's exposure by seasonal temperature fluctuations on the surface of
Mars.
"It's a very lovely fragmented outcrop," said geologist Angelo Pio Rossi of Bremen's Jacobs
University.
Then, Rossi has generated panoramic images of the outcrop using Curiosity rover pictures,
and he, too, believes the door-shaped cave was formed by apparent fissures in the rock.
Part of his research involves looking for analogs on Earth to geological features discovered
on Mars, and he claims that there are many analogous structures on Earth.
And it's unlikely that Mars quakes had a role: "Any block that is separated by fissures might
ultimately slide downslope, even if the slope is moderate," Rossi told Live Science in an
email.
"The cracks themselves are not directly formed by Mars quakes, but rather by deformation
over geologic time," he explained.
Hodgson goes on to say that the image demonstrates how helpful images from Mars rovers may be:
"This is a fantastic photograph."
It only goes to illustrate how fantastic geology we can accomplish with the photos returned
by curiosity and perseverance.
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Scott Waring of the UFO-focused site ET Data Base made the allegation about the presence
of an extraterrestrial entryway on Mars.
Waring discovered the structure while looking through photographs produced by NASA's Spirit
rover.
Waring saw what looked to be an entrance on one of the rocks in one of the photographs,
which displayed two rocks on Martian soil.
He saw that the aperture was practically rectangular in form.
As a result, Waring proposed that the aperture is a doorway to an extraterrestrial dwelling
or construction.Waring calculated the entryway to be roughly 4 inches wide and 6 inches tall
based on the size of the boulder in comparison to the rover.
The scale of the gateway, according to Waring, corresponds with his prior finds of sculptures
and engravings on Mars.
Because they were similar in size, they may have been created and utilized by the same
kind of little extraterrestrial aliens.
Surprisingly, this isn't the first time Waring has discovered doorway-like gaps in NASA's
Mars images.
He discovered a passage on another rock earlier in July.
This one was larger than his last find.
The entryway was roughly a foot tall, according to Waring.
Furthermore, based on the track heading into or out of the gateway, Waring hypothesized
that the extraterrestrial aliens that constructed it are still using it.
In a blog post, Waring said, "If you look attentively in front of the entrance, you
will find a used trail extending out of the entryway and across to the left."
"The route appears to have been recently utilized, thus whoever built that trail is still alive
and well within this doorway."
Waring further claimed that the aliens purposefully designed the buildings to resemble rocks as
a means of concealment.
"It appears to be a rock, but it is not," he wrote.
"It's an extraterrestrial building designed to blend in with the Mars environment."
While conspiracy theories regarding the mystery gateway appear to be trending on the internet,
other Reddit members remain skeptical.
Many skeptics have pointed out that the door is most likely a shear fracture—the consequence
of some form of tension on the rock that broke part of it off.
Given the circumstances, it's a plausible theory.
On May 4, Mars had its greatest earthquake, which experts are still attempting to find
out what caused.
Although the door-like rock feature looks to be large enough to accommodate humans,
it may only be a few centimetres or inches tall.
"So what if it's only a few inches?"
One Reddit user said.
"How do we know how big our rulers will be?"
A Martian crater with 'alien footprints' was recently shown to be a unique geographic marker.
It's not the first time images from Mars have been misinterpreted as evidence of alien life.
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