The Curiosity rover, whose photos are regularly talked about on social networks, has brought back a strange new photo from its trip to Mars.
In this image, published on Twitter by the newspaper "Ciel et Espace", we can see what looks like a door carved into the rock.
What is this strange "door" on Mars?
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Another fascinating new shot taken by Curiosity on ground 3466 (i.e. this Saturday, May 7)!
pic.twitter.com/ePbZbCfg7q
– Ciel & Espace (@cieletespace) May 11, 2022
To the chagrin of Internet users, who saw there the entrance to an extraterrestrial base, the specialized newspaper provided a rational explanation.
“Of course, it is (probably) not an alien door, but landslides following fractures in the rock!
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Of course it is (probably) not an alien door, but landslides following fractures in the rock!
On this wide shot, we can also distinguish a lot of them 👇 pic.twitter.com/j6ixPi4nJ3
– Ciel & Espace (@cieletespace) May 11, 2022
Some Internet users still had fun making photomontages from the image taken by Curiosity.
I just had to...ok I'm out!!!#nottoscale #humanscaleadded pic.twitter.com/d4AHSPjgpM
— Fred Heller (@fredHeller1) May 11, 2022
Last February, the small NASA robot took a photo of an intriguingly shaped stone, which Internet users compared to… a sex toy.
“I am sure that this tool dedicated to Martian female pleasure had to be abandoned (but not by me)”, commented a user.
At the end of November, it was the Chinese rover Yutu-2, exploring the surface of the Moon, which had captured the image of a mysterious cube visible on the horizon, fueling the rumours.
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the Red Planet on August 6, 2012.
Directed from a NASA center in California (United States), it surveys the Martian soil, bringing astronomers valuable data thanks to its ten ultra-sophisticated instruments: cameras, radiation detectors or sensors of all kinds. .
Among its exploits, Curiosity succeeded in determining that around its point of fall is an ancient lake which met the conditions for the development of life.
