Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Posted on 03/04/2026 7:50:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Right Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4816 (2026-02-22 11:56:09 UTC).
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it is the ship from lost in space
ping
Those don’t exist, well, because they can’t possibly be there. The demons have faked out even rover cameras. There is nothing to be seen here, move along. Squirrel!!! ;-D
Looks like a UFO to me. Imagine that!
Its a turkey buzzard.
Corrupted data causes pixel dropouts, data loss, or missing data artifacts.
Though I did see one years ago from the Mars raw data feeds that had an unexplainable image that I’ve never been able to find again.
Phobos rising - or a glitch in the Matrix.
There is a strong horizontal pixelation overlayed on a sphere as blurry as the rest of the picture.
artifact. much sharper outline than anything else in the image
Ditto. It blended right in with all the other specks on my screen. Thought maybe I sneezed.
Possible UFO in Mars image. Ping.
It’s fake. It’s all about government psy-ops. It was filmed on the same sound stage as the fake moon landings. You can take that to the bank as a solid flat earther.
(note: the flat Earth theory was recently discredited by the simple observation that if the Earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now.)
Here's Grok's response:
The small dark object circled in the second image (a tiny triangular or arrowhead-like shape perched on the distant ridge/horizon) is not a UFO, spacecraft, drone, or anything artificial/extraterrestrial.
It's almost certainly a small rock or boulder sitting on the crest of that far-off ridge line. Here's why this is the straightforward explanation:
- The Navcam (navigation camera) on Curiosity is a relatively low-resolution black-and-white camera (1024×1024 pixels) designed primarily for hazard avoidance and drive planning, not for fine detail at long distances. Objects on the horizon several kilometers away get compressed into just a handful of pixels.
- Mars' landscape is full of rocky outcrops, ridges, and scattered boulders. Small rocks perched on elevated terrain like this are extremely common in Gale Crater, where Curiosity has been driving for years. The shape can look angular or pointed simply due to pixelation, lighting angle (harsh shadows in the thin atmosphere), and the low resolution—much like how distant mountains on Earth can appear to have "unnatural" shapes in low-res photos.
- The object appears stationary and in exactly the same position relative to the landscape in the original raw NASA image. There's no motion blur, no shadow inconsistency suggesting it's airborne, and no other frames from the same sequence show it moving or changing.
- Similar "UFO" claims have been made repeatedly with Curiosity and other rover images (e.g., distant specks, bright spots, or dark blobs). NASA and independent image analysts have consistently shown these are mundane: distant rocks, cosmic-ray hits on the sensor, lens flares, dead/hot pixels, or image compression artifacts. No anomalous aerial object has ever held up under scrutiny in rover photos.
This particular image sparked a fresh round of online speculation (including posts calling it a "disc-shaped aerial anomaly" or comparing it to older 2014 claims), but the raw file from NASA shows nothing out of the ordinary—just another piece of Martian geology on a distant hill.
If you look at the full raw image on the official NASA site (mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/), you'll see the tiny mark is just one small dark feature among many rocks along that ridge. Zooming in only reveals more pixelation, not structure that suggests anything manufactured or flying.
Bottom line: Cool pareidolia moment (our brains love seeing familiar shapes in random patterns), but it's a rock. Mars keeps delivering intriguing geology, not visitors.
Phobos Rising - great name for a Heavy Metal band.
Oh.
Okay.
Which are you going to believe? Grok or your lying eyes?
“ It’s fake. It’s all about government psy-ops. It was filmed on the same sound stage as the fake moon landings. You can take that to the bank as a solid flat earther.”
Hopefully you are joking.
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