Recently, a photo taken at the surface of the planet Mars in 2014 has again resurfaced in the media and caused a certain reaction from the public. The photo in question was taken by the mars rover Curiosity using its instrument MastCam and represents a heap of stones in the middle of which is an object that was strangely in the shape of a human femur.
The year in which it was taken, the image had provoked a wave with those who have a penchant for conspiracy theories. These last were, in fact, on this picture the proof that Mars was once inhabited by beings similar to humans. This situation had forced NASA to respond by publishing that it was just a rock sculpted by erosion and which ultimately took the form of a femur.
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The u.s. space agency had also stated that scientists believe that life on Mars, if it existed, would have been made of agencies to the simple shape as the germs. According to the explanation, the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere and in other places of the planet would not have allowed the existence of complex organisms that leave fossils of this size.
A phenomenon quite common
According to the specialists, see shapes that don’t exist on everyday objects is a phenomenon quite common. This phenomenon has a name, the paréidolie. It occurs when certain parts of the brain dealing with visual information and draw a conclusion before the rest of the brain can follow. People can thus see, for example, of the faces on ordinary objects such as vegetables or shoes.
On Earth, it is easy to check that an image is not what we think. On the photos from Mars, it is not possible to check, with the result that a person may insist on seeing some form without being able to dissuade him.
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March stimulates the imagination
Since the publication of the first images from the surface of Mars, lots of rocks and pebbles have already been qualified as being proof of extraterrestrial life complex. Among the most famous examples, we can mention the rock in the Cydonia region in which the photo was taken in 1976 seemed to show the carving of a face. Other people have also spotted other objects resembling a spoon, a cannonball, and even to fossils of insects or fungi.
In any case, up here, the different instruments sent to Mars, such as rovers and landers are still in work are continuing their research and still have not found signs of a form of past or present life. According to NASA, these instruments mainly focus on the research of microbes as it is the form of life may exist or have existed on the Red Planet.
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