The mound, located on Mars’ Mount Sharp, has a number of naturally-occurring open fractures, NASA said. NASA shared additional images of the area and said the rover used its mast camera on May 7 to capture the photo of the mound of rock, nicknamed the East Cliffs. Displacement of these loose blocks downslope could lead to such a cavity.” “Another image (that) covers a larger area on this hill shows many other examples of loose blocks.

“You can see that the feature resulted from the shedding of a block of rock, leaving a wedged shaped cavity, and you can see the back of the cavity,” Dietrich said. William Dietrich, an earth and planetary science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies landscape form and evolution, said the perceived doorway is a result of rock movement. “Sometimes it’s weird shapes in the rocks, sometimes it’s ‘bad pixels’ that leave irregular marks in some of the images.” “This is called pareidolia, and despite all the sensitive science instruments on the rover and the mission’s hundreds of scientists working with our data, we have not seen anything that isn’t easily explainable,” Good said. It’s somewhat common for people to see patterns in rock shapes that look like one thing or another, said Andrew Good, a spokesperson for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (This is called “pareidolia”) /VdwNhBkN6J Sure, it may look like a tiny door, but really, it’s a natural geologic feature! It may just *look* like a door because your mind is trying to make sense of the unknown. Some of you have noticed this image I took on Mars. Sure, it may look like a tiny door, but really, it’s a natural geologic feature! It may just *look* like a door because your mind is trying to make sense of the unknown.” “Some of you have noticed this image I took on Mars. The claim was addressed in a Twitter thread authored by the NASA-run Curiosity Rover account that called the formation a natural geological feature. Space officials and Mars experts said the formation is an unremarkable, naturally-occurring crevice that matches many others seen around the planet. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but while NASA did capture the image at the center of this claim, it didn’t find a secret, alien doorway on Mars. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. “NASA released this photo from the Mars Rover of an apparent doorway on Mars,” one Facebook post featuring the image said. “Photo From Mars Curiosity Rover Looks Like We Found a Doorway,” reads a headline from a website called the “Good News Network.” Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval Intelligence, during the public briefing held on UFOs, last month, had said that they have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects in military-controlled training areas and training ranges and other designated airspace since the early 2000s.At first, it certainly looks like a doorway.Ī grainy image captured by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover in May 2022 shows a formation in the planet’s rock that social media users seized on as some kind of alien door, suggesting it shows the presence of life. So, there are things we don’t understand,” Spergel said.Īlso Read | Is that a UFO? Video of unidentified object in Islamabad skies I can tell you we don’t know what makes up 95% of the universe.

I spent most of my career as a cosmologist. “We have to approach all these questions with a sense of humility. In a news conference, Spergel said the only preconceived notion going into the study is that the UAPs will likely have multiple explanations. NASA said the team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation for advancing scientific research. N this file photo taken on Apthis video grab image courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with 'unidentified aerial phenomena'.

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