News - Rocks on Mars?
Ah, if you like your 70's space nostalgia, then NASA are releasing new footage of things that look a bit like something possibly exciting, but will eventually be proved to be a rock.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7205004.stm
The 'face of mars' discovered in a photograph by NASA in the 70's had a convincing enough human appearance until more recent probes revealed it to be just a plain old rock.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm
It does looks like a figure till you look at the rocks around it and the way the shadows are cast, then of course, it looks like a rock. So you don't even have to wait thirty years to prove it isn't a martian, you just need to just look at the photograph for a couple of minutes. These martian civilisation space mysteries aren't what they used to be. Oh and there's a snake too.
A part of me will always remain confused by my reading of such things in the 1970's as a child, where I was aware there were no such things as UFOs, aliens and Bigfoot, but magazines, books and TV that I often took at face value, said there were.
So yes, more proof that there are indeed rocks on Mars...
As for whether there is Life on Mars? Yes, but they've changed the series name to Ashes to Ashes and relocated it to London and should be with us in February.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7205004.stm
The 'face of mars' discovered in a photograph by NASA in the 70's had a convincing enough human appearance until more recent probes revealed it to be just a plain old rock.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm
It does looks like a figure till you look at the rocks around it and the way the shadows are cast, then of course, it looks like a rock. So you don't even have to wait thirty years to prove it isn't a martian, you just need to just look at the photograph for a couple of minutes. These martian civilisation space mysteries aren't what they used to be. Oh and there's a snake too.
A part of me will always remain confused by my reading of such things in the 1970's as a child, where I was aware there were no such things as UFOs, aliens and Bigfoot, but magazines, books and TV that I often took at face value, said there were.
So yes, more proof that there are indeed rocks on Mars...
As for whether there is Life on Mars? Yes, but they've changed the series name to Ashes to Ashes and relocated it to London and should be with us in February.
posted by paulvonscott at 2:20 PM
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