Ιστορική ανακάλυψη στον Άρη; Fossilized human finger, ancient sandal and Martian animal: UFO hunters spot 'evidence of life' on Red Planet in Curiosity Rover's footage

Έντονη φημολογία έχει αναπτυχθεί στο διαδίκτυο εδώ και λίγα 24ωρα ότι το Curiosity ανάμεσα στις δεκάδες εικόνες που στέλνει καθημερινά από τον Άρη έστειλε πριν λίγες μέρες και κάποιες στις οποίες διακρίνεται κάτι που μοιάζει με σκελετό ενός σπονδυλωτού όντος. Μάλιστα κάποιες από αυτές τις εικόνες η NASA τις είχε δημοσιεύσει σε μια από τις ιστοσελίδες που έχει δημιουργήσει για την αποστολή του ρομποτικού εξερευνητή στον Άρη αλλά μετά τον θόρυβο που έχει προκληθεί τις απέσυρε.

Κάποιοι που πρόλαβαν να δουν και να «αρπάξουν» τις εικόνες πριν τις αποσύρει η NASA δημιούργησαν μάλιστα ένα σχετικό βίντεο για το εύρημα.  Ήδη πολλοί δικτυακοί τόποι έχουν ξεκινήσει τα ρεπορτάζ και όπως διαρρέεται από την έδρα της NASA στο Χιούστον είναι πιθανό τις επόμενες ώρες η αμερικανική υπηρεσία να κάνει ανακοινώσεις για το θέμα που λαμβάνει ολοένα και μεγαλύτερες διαστάσεις.

Ancient digit: A YouTube user claimed that the rover stumbled upon an ancient, fossilized human finger, which in reality is likely just a rock.

Martian footwear: Another rock that caught the attention of the UFO enthusiast made him think of a long-forgotten shoe or sandal on the surface of the Red Planet.

Martian life form: An image of a rock with a crevice in the middle vaguely resembles a grinning extra-terrestrial critter.

‘Mars Curiosty captures a possible ancient finger, a dome shaped object, a shoe or sandal and a possible Martian creature,’ Hannard wrote in the video description. Another rock found nearby resembles an overturned sandal, and a crevice on another geological formation looks like a smiling Martian critter, NBC reported. ‘Are these anomalies real, tricks of the light or something else, as always you decide.’ 

Nasa, however, has so far made no ground-breaking announcements regarding the discovery of life forms – or Martian footwear, for that matter - on the Red Planet, leaving UFO enthusiasts guessing and wondering.

UFO or camera snafu: The same relentless web user posted footage in which he applied a series of filters to a Curiosity image, revealing what he claimed to be four objects resembling flying saucers.

Theory debunked: Experts came out saying that the four 'saucers' are actually just dead pixels in the rover's camera.

The YouTube video - posted by a Stephen Hannard - puts the photograph through many different filters to try to find more clues as to their existence. A fourth blob can be seen to the top of this image.

‘Four objects caught by Mars Curiosity, very difficult to make out on original image so I have used a few filters to highlight,’ he said in the video description. ‘What are these four objects? UFOs, Dust particles, or something else? As always you decide.’

Experts, however, came out saying that the four ‘objects’ are actually just dead pixels in the rover's CCD camera — single points in the camera's imager that have lost functionality and register as white.

Marc D'Antonio, a photo and video analyst for MUFON [Mutual UFO Network], told Huffington Post, ‘I fully concur at this point that these are dead pixels on the imager. All CCD (cameras) have them, and in a bland atmosphere like that at Mars, they would be very obvious as opposed to an active atmosphere like Earth, where they could end up hidden for a long time before anyone noticed them.’

ΠΗΓΗ: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193757/NASA-Mars-Curiosity-Rover-Fossilized-human-finger-ancient-sandal-Martian-animal.html