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| Photo Taken By Mars Curiosity Rover |
When you read this story and see the response from NASA you can only reach one logical conclusion. NASA has no idea where the light source is coming from. So that old adage holds true............throw everything against the wall and see what sticks. When they see which story the public believes the most, they will run with it for years to come.
A NASA camera on Mars has captured what appears to be artificial light emanating outward from the planet's surface.
Photos taken April 2 and April 3 by a camera on the Curiosity rover were beamed millions of miles from Mars to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
According to NASA, a bright spot appears in single images taken by the stereo camera's "right eye" camera, but the spot doesn't show up in images taken less than a second later by the left-eye camera.
In the two right-eye images, the spot is in different locations of the image frame, and, in both cases, at the ground surface level in front of a crater rim on the horizon, Justin Maki, a NASA imaging scientist said April 8 by email through a spokesman.
Explanation #1 by NASA
"One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun," Maki said in the statement. "When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky."
Explanation #2
Another possibility is that the bright spots are sunlight reaching the camera's image sensor through a vent hole in the camera housing, which has happened before with Curiosity and other Mars rovers, the agency said.
Explanation #3
"We think it's either a vent-hole light or a glinty rock," Maki said in the emailed statement. Another possibility is that it's a cosmic ray striking the camera's detector, he added.
So the truth of the matter is that NASA has no clue as to where the source of the light on Mars is coming from, so if you care to go with extraterrestrials that is certainly your prerogative. It is every bit as valid and NASA's explanation.
