Various pictures taken by a rover on Mars of non-human-made objects
The news about Mars is serious this time with great distinction, because its source is scientists from NASA, European universities and American scientific institutes. Its summary is that the Curiosity rover since mid-2012 on the surface of the Red Planet took pictures last April of what appeared to be rows of nails, plates and wedges protruding from the rocks. On Mars, the Gale crater with a diameter of 154 km is located on the crust.
What appeared in the pictures, was considered by the astrobiologist, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, an activist at the Ames Research Center affiliated with NASA, as well as at the Seti Institute to search for extraterrestrial intelligent beings, as the strangest rocks she had ever seen during her 20 years of studying the planet. the Red.
A new research paper, published in the Journal of Astrobiology, concludes that the formations may be "sand thorns" similar to those known to form on Earth in water-filled sands during strong earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater. However, the researchers caution that "a fragment from an extraterrestrial spacecraft cannot be ruled out with absolute certainty," noting that what appears in the images as wheels, an axle and a debris field has been imaged in another part of the crater.
Rock The scientific paper explained its contents
What was mentioned by the first author of the research, Professor Richard Armstrong, Lecturer in Health and Life Sciences at Aston University in Birmingham, and read by Al-Arabiya.net on the website of the British newspaper The Telegraph today, that there is no way to prove with certainty what nails are, but the balance of evidence is He refers to "sandy elevations resulting from seismic activity on Mars, and he said:" I think that the mysterious wheels are a separate phenomenon, as images of Mars often show strange formations and features that resemble familiar objects, and any debris field on the surface of the planet will certainly suffer from erosion over time, especially due to wind," he said.
It doesn't look like anything from Earth
In the images taken by Curiosity, at least 6 rocks appear with strange bumps, including one with 11 evenly spaced bumps. Wedge-shaped objects resembling shark tusks can also be seen under the nails, in addition to plates, which appear to have embedded nails "which are unlikely to be human-made." Rather, it has been speculated that the foreign objects were fossil fish bones, dinosaur bones, or offspring. of Martian winds.
Many also suggested that it could be the remains of a wrecked vehicle or discarded equipment, especially since at least 10 spacecraft have crashed or lost contact with Mars. Even small parts of Curiosity fell off while it was rolling over the planet, so experts estimate that the Red Planet has 7,119 kilograms of human-origin debris on the Martian surface.
It's different in the new paper, however, because experts say it is unlikely that UFOs are associated with human spacecraft "because they don't look like anything from Earth" and there is no clear debris field and no evidence of any additional debris that may have originated from Earth.
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