Originally published at: Mars orbiter image shows a crashed flying saucer…. or something else entirely | Boing Boing
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It’s a semi-circular dune at the end of the path.
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Yeah, sure it is… and this is really Kermit the Frog.
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I see a bunch of Martian high school kids with too much time on their hands.
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Funny how when only part of a formation is visible our brains’ natural instinct is to mentally picture the hidden half as a mirror-image of the part we think we can make out.
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Video shows a great context shot. The red spot/mouse cursor is where the closeup is from. I dunno about you, but looking at the surroundings it is pretty clearly a normal feature for the area and not a crashed saucer. Sigh… I want to believe.
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It’s a potato, an invasive on Mars, left over by careless humans
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Damn drunk UFO pilots, reckless aliens crashing their crafts into defenseless planets. Sad.
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it seems odd no one has pointed out the gigantic human head at the bottom right of that image. surely that can’t be a natural phenomenon…
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It’s clearly just a defunct example of one of Schiaparelli’s canals, as they’ve just found there’s a whole buncha water nearby… “Scientists Just Found a ‘Significant’ Volume of Water Inside Mars’ Grand Canyon”
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Without knowing anything about the elevations, it looks to me like there was a collapse at the “saucer” end of the image that resulted in two downhill flows of material resulting in a series of dunes down the elevation along both tracks. Even without assuming ALIENS, it’s a pretty interesting feature!
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It’s a fossil of a giant sandworm obviously
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I see that image and all I can think is:
Man, the coin got jammed and now they’ll never get their giant Mars bar!
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If we trace the outline…
… before you know it; you are throwing buckets of kerosene at a burning stuntman.
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Wherever these guys are from, they are pretty horrible pilots…
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This scene is terrific. Cara, It is amazing.
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Doesn’t look like Elon Musk, but…
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Apart from the changes he made to the photo he didn’t make changes to the photo.
Its really the entrance to the Ice Warrior base.
