Associated Press writer Philip Marcelo in Boston contributed this report. Rather than extraterrestrials, lawmakers at the hearing honed in on concerns that China, Russia and other well-equipped foreign adversaries could be using new aerospace technology against the U.S. It came just days before Congress opened its first hearing in more than half a century on unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, on Tuesday. The assessment from NASA and other Mars experts hasn’t deterred some online skeptics from questioning the timing of the image release. “But cracks generally form in straight lines, and you can actually see very clearly into the inside of the rock wall, and see the back of the wall, with even more cracks in it.” “The shadows make it look like a perfect rectangle in low quality images, which has been used to suggest it is a ’doorway,” Stucky de Quay wrote in an email. Good said that NASA scientists overseeing the rover estimate the opening is 12 inches (30 centimeters) tall and 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. Curiosity, a rover that’s been exploring the mountain since landing in 2012, took the image of the crevice on May 7. On Wednesday, NASA posted on its website more detailed renderings of the area, which it says is a mound of rock nicknamed “East Cliffs” on Mars’ Mount Sharp. NASA officials and Mars experts say the curious formation is nothing more than a narrow, naturally-occurring crevice in the rocky, barren terrain.Īndrew Good, a spokesman for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told the AP that the image being circulated is a “very, very, very zoomed in shot” of a naturally formed rock crevice. THE FACTS: Social media users shared a magnified version of the image, which made it appear the formation was much larger than its actual dimensions. _ Experts: Mars ‘doorway’ just small crevice on barren terrainĬLAIM: NASA’s Mars rover has captured images of a doorway cut into a mountainside of the red planet, suggesting the presence of extraterrestrial life.
None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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