Is it Bigfoot? A Tusken Raider from the first “Star Wars” movie? Or just a rock? British newspapers went crazy Wednesday morning about an image from Mars that appears to show a humanoid figure descending a shallow hillside. The “alien” is actually a blurry detail in a huge panoramic photograph snapped on the edge of Mars’ Gusev crater by NASA’s Spirit rover in early November, and posted on NASA’s Web site on Jan. 2. Naturally, it took the Photoshop skills of dedicated bloggers to find the “humanoid.” “NASA scientists have been puzzled by the peculiarly life-like image,” declared the Times of London, despite the apparent fact that no one from NASA has had any comment. The skeptical Web site BadAstronomy.com, however, scoffed, “Puhlllleeeeze. A man? It’s a tiny rock only a few inches high. It’s only a few feet from the rover!”
Yes, its alien conspiracy day on DU. The original NASA photo is here. You can zoom in and spot the Martian! Hint: its in the group of rocks on the bottom left side.
Who is the loser with that much time on their hands?
I think it’s one of the cavemen from the Geico ads.
Jimmy Hoffa!
So THAT’s where BinLaden has been hiding! – no wonder Bush couldn’t find him 😀
I new Bigfoot was an alien … I just didn’t know he was a Martian.
The Mars rovers are now stationary, facing the sun, to wait out Winter. I guess if the Martian is still there in the Spring, that will only prove how tough its going to be to beat them in a staring contest.
RBG
That’s it for you, then, McCullough. You’ve killed nasa.gov.
It’s Sasquatche’s cousin, “Littlefoot”.
#7. And yet it was soo easy.
Tom Cruise is on Mars
That’s a petrified smurf!
It’s Osama.
an drinking some home brew,
cheers
Looks liek the top right rutter of the starship enterprise.
Only a few inches high… Cool, that’s one our hero pres could handle.. Bring em on..
Little Green Men about four foot one
Maybe they want to have some fun
Little Green Men about four foot two
Maybe he wants to mate with you
Little Green Men about four foot three
Maybe they want to be set free
Steve Vai
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Read somewhere that several people stared at this (and other) photos for YEARS until they found some pattern their brains recognized as human-shaped…
Man, I used to do it with clouds, when I was a kid 🙂
Elvis is probably only a few inches high by now. It could be The King.
How soon before someone tries to sell that rock on eBay? And someone actually buys it?
That image has been debunked. They analyzed the 3D Images of that photo and the optical-illusion falls apart. It’s just a rock.
hi earthlings! nice to know you all care whether I exist or not!! Take care of your planet or it could soon be ours…
After examining the images that I enhanced with PSP of the “Sasquatch on Mars,” I somewhat can identify a nose maybe? If this is just a rock, it would be a pretty impressive one with human like bodily details.
http://sasquatch-mars.blogspot.com/
Computerized enhancement has provided a much better image proving that this is NOT a rock:
http://www.geocities.com/lugosi2k/4_jan_MarsProbeMarvin.jpg
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#21 Yeah Right…..
Why is it all these Earth shattering photos are only Earth shattering with the computer enhancement?
Case and point the face of Mars at Cydonia.
Fact is some people will believe & see what they want to believe & see. That’s why there is so much money to make exploiting that fact.
If its not Mars its Jesus… 😉
Cheers
Geeze, five more beers and that shadow is gonna start looking cute. Damn, it already reminds me of the little mermaid.
Ya, so what we got here seems to be ‘Jeebus-on-a-potato-in-outer-space’…
I think it’s an undocumented worker who entered Mars illegally.
It is a pile of rocks.
Wow, I got linked from Dvorak! Well, second hand, but I’ll take it.
I’m so dissapointed that no one made a Where’s Waldo joke!
But really the guy who spotted this must be worlds for most Where’s Waldos expert!