Civilizations Discover

An unknown object streaked past Curiosity—silent, swift, and vanishing—fueling theories that something ancient watches us from beneath Mars’ dust.

The two photographs analyzed here were taken by Rover Curiosity’s Right Navigation Camera on Sol 3613 (5 October 2022) and according to Jean Ward’s calculation the two photographs were taken 12 seconds apart. Seen in these photographs is what appears to be an atmospheric anomaly; something like an object moving across the field of view […]