Sunday, March 11, 2007

Is This a Martian Skull?



This looks like a humanoid skull in a photograph taken by the Mars lander. You can see more clearly on the enlarged versions that there seem to be eye sockets and a nose. It is as if the mouth is partly under the ground and there is a skeleton buried beneath.

Wait a minute - a skeleton under the ground and a mouth? You just have to be careful what you see and what you think you see. The human mind will add details to make sense of images like this.

It might look human and there might be a skeleton but it could just as easily be a piece of rock eroded into this shape. There are examples on earth too of strangely shaped rocks that are just rocks and nothing else.




It doesn't stop these photos being fascinating and you can find more examples at Mars Anomaly Research.

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