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Unusual objects on Mars

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Unusual objects on Mars

Post by Dragon Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:53 pm

But now, as NASA and other space agencies have begun to explore the skies and surface of the Red Planet using robotic technology, images of strange features and formations continue to inflame skywatchers' hopes, fears and curiosities.

Here are some of our favorite objects on Mars that look like they don't belong on a dead and dusty planet. Many of these are a result of pareidolia — the tendency for humans to seek familiar patterns and shapes in inanimate objects.

However, some of them may even lead scientists to the long-sought evidence of past Martian life.

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Post by Dragon Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:55 pm

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(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona)

Spotted from miles above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a crawling metallic robot glints on the Martian surface far below.

This is a rare case where the mystery object is exactly what it looks like; that robot is NASA's Curiosity rover, making its way up Mount Sharp several years into its mission to explore the Red Planet.

Concrete evidence that Mars ever held life is still lacking — but at least we can say Mars is the only known planet in the universe inhabited exclusively by robots.

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Post by Dragon Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:57 pm

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(Image credit: NASA/Christopher Kremer/Brown University)

Strange patterns carved into the surface of Mars' Nili Fossae region aren't alien sand art or the Martian version of Peru's Nazca Lines.

They are, in fact, mineral deposits containing large quantities of olivine, a mineral typically only found deep below the surface of Mars.

How did so much olivine-rich rock reach the planet's surface?

That question presents a tempting mystery for scientists.

It could be that a huge asteroid impact excavated the Martian interior, bringing olivine to the surface in swirling splatters — or perhaps the subsurface mineral saw daylight following a massive volcanic eruption.

Its precise origin remains a mystery to this day.

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Post by Dragon Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:59 pm

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In 2022, NASA spotted what looked like the wreck of an "alien" spacecraft on Mars.

In this case, the "aliens" were, in fact, Earthlings; the wreckage seen by NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was a piece of the helicopter's own parachute and backshell, a saucer-like cover that helped slow the robotic craft's descent as it dropped onto the Red Planet along with the larger Perseverance rover.

This piece of wrecked human technology, photographed by Ingenuity while it was flying 26 feet (8 m) above the Martian surface, looks particularly alien amid the desolate rocks and dust of the surrounding landscape.

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Post by Dragon Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:00 pm

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What looks like a hole blasted into the Martian landscape by a stray bullet may be something much more exciting — a possible refuge for future astronauts.

The hole, which measures a few meters across, was imaged by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2022 on the flank of a massive volcano called Arsia Mons.

The pit is located along a lava flow and appears to be a vertical shaft that could potentially connect to a deep system of caverns below the volcano.

Although the hole's depth is unknown, it may be a tempting refuge for future astronauts who need a place to shield themselves from the intense radiation that beams down on the Red Planet.

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