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Have you ever wondered how many strange things we find on other planets? For example, a human-like creature, unusual structures of regular shape, an anthropomorphic sculpture, and even a doorway resembling a doorway. What are these if not traces of extraterrestrial civilizations on other planets? Moreover, all of these artifacts are located within the solar system. And there are hundreds of such finds. Some of the strangest finds are ordinary earthly things that somehow ended up on other planets. And most of them can be seen on Mars. For example, these spiders were spotted on the surface with the onset of the Martian spring. A
photo from a Martian reconnaissance satellite shows thousands of insects emerging from cracks on the planet's surface. But scientists claim that these are not actually spiders, but simply patches of soil covered in dust. Why then do they only appear in the spring? Researchers link this to seasonal climate changes. As temperatures rise, frozen carbon dioxide beneath the surface of Mars heats up and goes from solid to gaseous state. The accumulated CO2 then erupts in a jet, scattering dark dust particles around it. This angel on the surface of Mars was formed in a similar way In 2020, it was spotted on the European Space Agency's Mars Express photoprobe.
Scientists explain angel wings, like spider wings, as the result of the evaporation of ice. But the nymph and the angel's head are most likely traces of a meteorite impact. But not all strange finds have such an obvious and logical justification. For example, the so-called robot leg. Scientists generally explain the scaly femur and the famous face on Mars by one phenomenon: the robot leg and the hip bone were first discovered in images of the Mars rover City in 2014 and 2019. But the face on the planet's surface was photographed by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976. Despite the low quality of the images, they show a formation resembling a human head and stones that look like pyramids. In addition, the face is clearly visible from different angles.
It is located in the Cydoni region, in the northern hemisphere of Mars, and is about 2 km long. Many theories have swirled around this creation. For example, conspiracy theorist Richard Hoagland claimed that the face on Mars is an artifact of an ancient Martian city that was once built by an advanced civilization. But wait, why is there so much fuss about this face, when there's a portrait of George Washington right below it? But unlike Mount Rushmore, these sculptures on the surface of Mars were not created by humans, but by nature. Scientists are sure that the strange shapes are the result of erosion. Wind and, perhaps, water have carved the rock for thousands of years and created a bizarre relief. And in 2001, the Mars
Global Surveyor spacecraft photographed a face on Mars in higher resolution and with different lighting. It turned out that it was really just an unusual relief. But why then do so many people see here not just a stone, but a face? Maybe they're fooling us after all? In fact, that's what our own brain does. If you see faces here, here, and here, then you've just been subjected to pareidolia. This is a perceptual tendency that causes you and I to see patterns and regularities where there are none. And it works especially well with faces. In 2009, a group of scientists led by Professor Nuchin Hadjikani of Geborgs University in Sweden conducted a
study of paraidalia. Nine participants were connected to a magnetic encephalograph and shown images of human faces and various objects. The study showed that when we see, for example, this, the same area in our brain that is responsible for recognizing faces is activated. And this works with other forms as well. Scientists believe that paraidolia helped our ancestors spot predators in the forest and played a large role in the process of natural selection. And today, thanks to it, we see strange figures on the surfaces of other planets. But the problem is that there are hundreds of strange finds
in photos from Mars. And many of them scientists cannot explain even with pareidolia. In May 2022, the Curiosity rover photographed a strange hole in a Martian rock. It looks like a regularly shaped passage carved into the rock . If you look closely, you can see the smooth walls inside and even what appears to be a trampled area in front of the tunnel entrance. But scientists claim that all this is just another play of light and shadow. And if you look at the general plan, you can notice other formations in the rock that actually don't even remotely resemble a smooth exit to the tunnel. And there are a lot of such controversial artifacts on Mars. For example, these noodles.
It was photographed by the Perseverance rover in July 2022. The strange artifact resembles either noodles, a dried bundle of algae, or perhaps even the remains of an animal resembling a jellyfish. At the same time, the stone in the photo resembles a fossilized sea sponge. The nt in this region of Mars will resemble sand at the bottom of the ocean. And it's not just like that. The thing is that the Perseverance rover landed in the giant crater Zeroo. The diameter of the crater is about 45 km. And it was formed as a result of a meteorite fall. It is believed that the lake was once filled with water.
If there was once life in this giant lake, perhaps it was its remains that Perseverance spotted. But we don't think so. The chefs say that the tangled ball of noodles is just the remains of a thermal blanket. It hit the planet with the Mars rover, and then the wind simply blew its fragments around. And this is not the first time that scientists have denied finding traces of life on Mars. For example, scientists have been unable to explain a recent photo taken by Curiosity, which shows fossilized trees or the remains of ancient corals. Although this find is localized in the Gale Crater, which probably could also have once been a lake. But even researchers from the Seti project to search for extraterrestrial civilizations consider these
spikes to be just unusual stones. According to them, these corals are particularly strong minerals left over from the destruction of softer rock, just like fragments of iron reinforcement in a concrete structure. But the wonders of photography don't end there. Back in 2016, Marsehit photographed what looked like fossilized fish remains. At that time, the find was also attributed to a strangely shaped stone, because, according to scientists, species similar to terrestrial fish could not have developed on Mars . What about crabs? A year earlier, a crustacean was found in a photo taken by Curiosity. that hid among the Martian rocks. Unfortunately, there are no close-up photos of this crab, so scientists may continue to consider it just a rock.
But in fact, NASA vehicles found artifacts that resembled not only underwater life forms. In 2016, the same Criocity photographed what at first glance seemed like an ordinary Martian landscape. But something strange happened in the picture. A stone that resembled the skull of an alien creature. It was immediately nicknamed the Sasquatch Skull. In the photo, you can see the eye socket, which is much narrower than a human's, the nose, and part of the upper jaw. A year earlier, something resembling a woman's silhouette was spotted in a photo of the Mars rover
However, in another photo of the same area where the Cryocity wheel fell, it is clear that the woman's figure is actually tiny. And in 2007, Mars Spirit took a panorama of the Martian plain, which also included a strange silhouette. The photo shows a person walking. Ufologists claim that this is actually a sculpture created by an intelligent civilization, and scientists simply ignore such finds. writing it all off as optical illusion and pareidolia. But the strange artifacts don't end there. In 2015, Opportunity photographed a stone resembling a statue of the Assyrian god Nabu. In 2017, the Mars rover Curio discovered an object that resembles either an alien spacecraft or a car. And in 2014, Marsahit captured a bright
flash of light in the distance that quickly disappeared. It was like a spotlight pointing upwards Do you know how scientists explained this phenomenon? Cosmic rays. Yes, Gelison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory considers this theory the most likely. Cosmic rays are photons and atomic nuclei that travel through space. They are sometimes spotted by astronauts, and they really do look like flashes of light. I don't even know which of these explanations is more incredible. There are indeed many strange finds on Mars.
Partly because we have millions of photos from the Red Planet and they are all in the public domain. But similar artifacts occur on other planets in the solar system. Unusual objects on distant planets of the solar system were also noticed by the Voyagers. So, in 1980, the devices managed to photograph an anomalous formation at the pole of Saturn. It was a hexagonal figure of almost regular shape. The thing is that regular polygons are very rare in nature, and such a figure is unlikely to have formed on its own. The structure was immediately called an alien settlement on the Internet, but the
Cassini spacecraft, which was sent to Saturn 20 years after the Voyagers, helped to get to the bottom of the truth. New photos and data confirmed the scientists' theory. The hexagon turned out to be an unusual storm at the planet's north pole. But Cassini has thrown NASA a new puzzle. In 2017, the spacecraft was already completing its mission and heading into the planet's atmosphere to burn up. But before that, Cassini sent scientists several photos of Saturn's rings. Astronomer Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London noticed an unusual object in these images, which he named Peeg. Peega is only 1 km in diameter, so Cassini could not see it directly. It is possible to notice this object only by the obstacles it
creates. Astronomer Murray noted strange movement in the rings back in 2013. Then he thought that they might be influenced by a small moon of Saturn, which scientists did not yet know about. But no such satellite was ever discovered, and Cassini's discovery just explained the unusual motion of the rings. A multitude of conspiracy theories immediately emerged around Peggy, calling the find an alien spaceship. Often because of its strangely elongated shape, resembling a giant cigar. For the same reason, the asteroid Muamomua was considered an alien ship It was the first interstellar object in history to fly through the solar system, as in Peggy. 'Uumuamua has a very
unusual elongated shape. At the same time, its length is also 1 km, and its width is only from 35 to 167 m. In 2017, Oumuamua flew at a distance of only 33 million km from Earth. Passing through our system, the asteroid lost 92% of its mass, but it did not have a tail like Ukumet, although one should have appeared. But even the mysterious Oumuamua can't compare to the fact that, according to conspiracy theorists, there could be an entire alien base orbiting Saturn. And this is a satellite of the planet Pan.
Its diameter is only 34 km. Scientists have long puzzled over its unusual shape. They believe that the rock may have collided with another space object, causing the rock on it to flatten. But the thing is that no objects similar in shape have been found near Saturn or within the solar system. In addition, the satellite was able to detect objects that do not look like simple erosion of rock. This has given rise to many theories, one of which suggests that the man is a military base of an extraterrestrial civilization. But even without resorting to conspiracy-related extremes, the satellite still looks strange. And Saturn is not alone in this.
Take a closer look at Mimas. It does n't remind me of anything. The satellite itself is only 395 km in diameter. At the same time, a giant crater formed on its surface. And in the very center of the crater is a mountain as tall as Mount Everest on Earth. Despite the fact that the size of the ammimas is only the size of our planet. How could such a huge mountain form in the center of a crater on a satellite where there is no geological activity or volcanoes? Scientists still don't have answers, but strange formations aren't just found on Saturn's moons. For example, Miranda, a satellite of Uranus, is covered with deep furrows that resemble scars. Scientists even suggested that the satellite was destroyed during
a collision with a meteorite, and then an unknown force gathered its fragments back together. But the most unusual find was noticed on the moon. In 2009, an amateur astronomer was studying the surface of the Moon on Google Moon and discovered a strange shadow on the surface that looked like a human's. In theory, such a shadow could be cast by a giant anthropomorphic statue, such as the Colossus of Rhodes. The traces of advanced civilizations on the moon, Saturn, and distant satellites seem incredible. But what if I told you that strange artifacts were found even on hot Venus?
The temperature on Venus can rise to 460° C. It rains acid and sulfur rains, and the atmosphere is 90% carbon dioxide. This planet is difficult to study, firstly, because of the extreme conditions on it, and secondly, because of the large number of clouds that prevent its surface from being viewed from orbit. But the first studies of Venus discovered unusual artifacts on it. In 1981, the Soviet Union sent the Venera 13 research probe to the planet. It worked on the surface for only about 127 minutes and managed to transmit 14 color and eight black-and-white images to Earth. And in these photos, Radnyan scientist Leonid Xanfomaliti noticed three unusual objects that changed their shape and moved.
He named them the disc, the black flap, and the scorpion. According to Xanfomaliti, the photo of Venus 13 only shows half of the so-called disk. In this series of photos, it is selected in the upper right corner. The scientist estimated the diameter of the disk at 34 cm. Xan Fomaliti noticed that in the first two photos the shape of the disk almost does not change. But further on, you can see a second one appearing on it, which is lengthening. It's hard to say whether this is really true or whether the scientist's imagination was just running wild. The next strange object is a black flap that fluttered around the device's measuring device and then disappeared without a trace. Its length is
about 6 cm. And finally, the most mysterious of the artifacts, according to the Xanphomalites, is a scorpion. He appears in images of Venera 13 at the 90th minute of its stay on the planet. The scientist concluded that the first images show a furrow on the soil of Venus, and then Scorpio himself appears from it. The scientific community did not take the words of the Soviet scientist seriously. Everyone thinks that objects in a photo could be ordinary reflections, shadows, or just noise. After all, it is unlikely that organisms can exist in the conditions of Venus, at least not now.
The fact is that the temperature on the planet is so high because of the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere prevents Venus from cooling, but that doesn't mean the planet has always been like this. For example, in 2006, the Venus Express spacecraft confirmed that there was once liquid water on the surface of Venus. Before that, its remains were found in the planet's magma. These facts force us to look at the findings of another Magellan probe differently. It was launched by NASA in 1989 and over 4 years of operation, it photographed 98% of the surface of Venus. And in these photos, enthusiasts still find many unusual objects.
If you visualize these finds in 3D, they completely cease to resemble relief details. Agree that these rectangular formations rather resemble a city. But scientists claim that such forms are created by volcanic flows, which cover 85% of Venus's surface. What do you think about these strange finds? It looks like another play of light and the photo is just stones of an unusual shape. And here, in general, there is a barely noticeable line, most likely a feature of the relief. Or not? In fact, these photos show views from space of the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. It turns out that our earthly structures can be perceived as an optical illusion. So what if the unusual silhouettes we see on other planets aren't also the
result of paraidolia? Then the strange passage on Mars, the rectangular structures on Venus, and the objects in Saturn's rings could still be real. What do you think?
