Strange light on Mars
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Strange light on Mars
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Re: Strange light on Mars
#2Why are the 8 photos they show just zooms/crops/edits of the first? Until there's another photo from a different viewpoint or some sort of official statement, I'm chalking it up to a photographic artifact. Occam's razor, people.
Re: Strange light on Mars
#3With such a thin atmosphere, why would a light shining upwards be visible from the side? For a light to be visible laterally like this, you'd need atmosphere for a scattering effect and a very bright light. A light pointing upwards from the surface of Mars should only be visible to something looking downwards.
Concluding that it's intelligent life "using lights as we do" is just a wild claim with no backing. From the evidence it's pretty obvious that it's a holographic projection sent backwards in time from humans in the future.
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#4I misread "This could indicate there there is intelligent life below the ground and uses light as we do," Waring wrote on his website. "This is not a glare from the sun, nor is it an artifact of the photo process." as being a statement from NASA and not from some random UFO web site.
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#5Why are the 8 photos they show just zooms/crops/edits of the first? Until there's another photo from a different viewpoint or some sort of official statement, I'm chalking it up to a photographic artifact. Occam's razor, people.
Yea, I wouldn't call "Scott C. Waring, who maintains the website UFO Sightings Daily" a reliable source. Just look at that site. I'll give you some of the headlines...
Giant UFO Near Earth In Photo Released by Brazil Planetarium, March 2014
Alien Saves Mans Life In China Car Accident, Sept 2012
Updated: Alien Face Discovered By Mars Rover Feb 2014
Re: Strange light on Mars
#6clearly the tardis.
Re: Strange light on Mars
#7Seeing as how the other camera on the rover did not capture this "light" (as seen clearly in this GIF: http://i.imgur.com/LQa9PLU.gif) it seems pretty safe to assume that this is just an artifact caused by a temporary glitch on one of the cameras.
Here are the two source images taken at the same time by the rover's two cameras:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/...
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/...
But of course disreputable "news" sites bring in a UFO enthusiast as their source for a quote about the possibility that there is intelligent life below the surface.
Re: Strange light on Mars
#8Why are the 8 photos they show just zooms/crops/edits of the first? Until there's another photo from a different viewpoint or some sort of official statement, I'm chalking it up to a photographic artifact. Occam's razor, people.
Yes, smells more of a cosmic ray hitting the sensor. They're quite a bit more common on Mars.
Also, from what I read this was first noticed on a website called "UFO Sightings Daily". NASA isn't giving it any thought because there's nothing to think about.
Re: Strange light on Mars
#9Why are the 8 photos they show just zooms/crops/edits of the first? Until there's another photo from a different viewpoint or some sort of official statement, I'm chalking it up to a photographic artifact. Occam's razor, people.
Yes, this is a complete non-event, probably a radiation artifact in the sensor. The following photos were taken at the same time by the left and right navigation camera, respectively, and only the latter shows the bright spot.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=NLB_44979...
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=NRB_44979...
Images digged up by redditor CurtisLeow at http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/22g13b/rover_captures...
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#10This is most likely because I know absolutely nothing about space exploration but I found the line below to be the most interesting piece in the article. (because as posted already, I'll just chalk this "strange light" up as a photographic anomaly.)
> "Arrival at this location means Curiosity has driven 3.8 miles since August 2012, when it landed inside Mars' Gale Crater."
It's crazy for me to think about this in comparison to Earth. Imagine somebody dropping a robot on Earth before any known life and trying to make sensible conclusions about what the entire planet was like by only exploring 3.8 miles...