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5 Most Mysterious Photos From Mars

The 5 most mysterious photographs taken on Mars, from strange lights shining up from the ground to a humanoid shape that looks impossibly like Big Foot…

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Presenting the five most mysterious pictures from Mars, including a strange blotch spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover only seconds after landing on the Red Planet, mysterious possibly artificial lights seeming to shine up from underground, the Mars monolith, massive holes and underground caverns that could harbor life, and a strange collections of photos that seem to show impossible scenes from a humanoid to a rabbit to signs of ancient civilization and even trees…

These incredible photos are real, but what about our interpretations? Do they show signs of bizarre alien life or are we simply seeing what we want to see?

Dig Deeper:
Mars Blotch: http://huff.to/UkJv3j
Mystery Light: http://bit.ly/1ib8pYk
Mars Monolith: http://bit.ly/1hFEoFf
Mars Holes & Caves: http://1.usa.gov/1kTBR4P
Mars Yeti: http://bit.ly/SDkhMf

New Photo Shows Powerful Jets on Mars-Bound Comet C/2013 A1

NASA recently released images of comet C/2013 A1 that will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon – on October 19, 2014.

The image on the left, captured March 11 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows the comet at a distance of 353 million miles from Earth.

Hubble can’t see C/2013 A1’s icy nucleus because of its small size, and the nucleus is surrounded by a glowing dust cloud that measures roughly 12,000 miles across. The left image is the comet as it appears to Hubble, and the right image has been processed to show see through the comet’s coma, revealing two jets of dust being blasted off the surface.

The comet was observed as Earth was crossing through it’s path around the Sun. This positioning of the two bodies allowed astronomers to determine the speed of the dust coming off the nucleus.

“This is critical information that we need to determine whether, and to what degree, dust grains in the coma of the comet will impact Mars and spacecraft in the vicinity of Mars,” said Jian-Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

Discovered in January 2013 by Robert H. McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory, the comet is falling toward the sun along a roughly 1 million year orbit and is now within the radius of Jupiter’s orbit. The comet will make its closest approach to our sun on Oct. 25, at a distance of 130 million miles – well outside of Earth’s orbit. The comet is not expected to become bright enough to be seen by the naked eye.

More: National Geographic

Want to feel small? Check out this incredible view of Earth from the surface of Mars, 99 million miles away!

NASA’s Curiosity rover has shared its first picture of Earth taken from the surface of Mars.

The photo was taken by the left eye camera of Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) about 80 minutes after sunset on the 529th Martian day of the rover’s mission on Mars (Jan. 31, 2014 on Earth). This being 2014, the rover of course tweeted the photo to the world with the accompanying caption: “Look Back in Wonder… My 1st picture of Earth from the surface of Mars.”

picture of Earth from Mars — courtesy of NASA

NASA’s Curiosity rover has shared its first picture of Earth taken from the surface of Mars.

The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took the photo was about 99 million miles (160 million kilometers). The image was processed to remove the effects of cosmic rays.

picture of the Earth and Moon from Mars — courtesy of NASA

According to NASA, “A human observer with normal vision, if standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright ‘evening stars.” This second annotated photo from Curiosity makes Earth’s lunar companion a bit easier to spot.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project’s Curiosity rover. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover’s Mastcam.