This image taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover on May 7, 2022 shows the “artificial-looking portal and nearby wall.”
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While the image in question is the original image taken by a camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft on May 7, 2022, the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told Snopes that what some social media users have interpreted as “gates and walls” is actually rocky image. fissure on the red planet.
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reality check
A popular May 2022 post on Reddit claims that NASA’s Mars is Curiosity roaming Take pictures of the so-called “gates” and “seemingly artificial walls” on the Red Planet that are as suspicious as they sound.
It was because when something was being filmed in a grainy black and white version of take pictures The image captured by the rover’s camera could be interpreted as resembling the shape of a door, as the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) told Snopes it was actually “a very, very magnified shot of a small crack in the rock.”
“Team scientists emphasize how small it is [the crevice] IS: Approximately 30 cm by 45 cm (11 by 17 inches) in width, a JPL spokesperson said via email. “They say there is a linear fracture along this length crash, and this is where a lot of linear faulting occurs. “
Picture taken by a pole camera (mastic) aboard the Curiosity rover, a system that uses fixed focal length, multispectral imaging instrumentation to take “true color” images of the red planet and its surroundings. The image of “The Door” was taken on May 7, 2022, which is also Sol 3466 – Solar Day 3466 on Mars, or Martian day.
NASA’s media relations team also referred us to publicly available digital files mosaic Pictures of the rover too. The cut was made by Neville Thompson, who is not affiliated with NASA, who shows the contents of the image within the wider interior of Mars.
A small “door” (gap) can be seen almost dead in the middle, slightly higher, and slightly to the left.
“Look? You can zoom in with +/- on the right side of the screen. It is very small and looks like a crack in the rock,” wrote the speaker.
While we can’t say for sure whether the Martians actually used the tiny door, NASA believes that the “door” in this case is just a small rocky crevice. So, while Reddit shows the original image taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, it doesn’t show the artificial gate or wall. Accordingly, we have categorized this claim as ‘false’.
Want more fact-checking on the weird and funny Mars gossip? Look at this:
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Bell III, James F, et al. “MasCam Instruments for the Mars Science Laboratory: Preflight, Calibration, Verification, and Archiving Inflight Data.” Earth and Space Sciences, Vol. 4, no. 7, 2017, p. 396452. pubs.er.usgs.gov, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EA000219.
“Does this image show a drilled crater on Mars?” Snopes.Com, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-hole-drilled-on-mars/. Accessed May 11, 2022.
Nada Ali Ahmed 90210. “New: 05-2022 A formation on Mars that looks like a portal and the wall nearby looks like an artificial one. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Mars rover. “R/Interestingasfuck, May 11, 2022, www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/umyqdy/new_20220507_a_formation_on_mars_which_appears_to/.
mars.nasa.gov. “Sol 3466: Camera Mast (Mastcam).” NASA Mars Exploration, https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1064629. Accessed May 11, 2022.
MSL 3466 MR. http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/229311/. Accessed May 11, 2022.
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