Marsquake or is erosion responsible?
A ‘door’ on Mars? What is this NASA image about?
Is this about one A door there in a rock on Mars? At first glance, one might think that this is exactly what is seen in the images currently sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover. However, the phenomenon most likely does not hide a strange settlement on the red planet. But how can this particular formation be explained?
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The door-like opening may be the result of natural stress that caused parts of the rock to fracture, He writes the scientific journal “Science Alert”.. In addition, an earthquake or two can cause the peculiar shape of the nostrils. Such an earthquake has only recently been measured on the surface of Mars. “It’s the most powerful tremor ever measured on any other planet,” NASA said a few days ago.
It doesn’t need a Martian earthquake
Other geologists differ to “Live Science” Swamp theory. “It looks to me like natural erosion,” British geologist Neil Hodgson told Science Magazine. The whole mountain was broken anyway. French geologist Nicolas Mangold said it doesn’t need an earthquake for such fractures to occur. Temperature fluctuations can also play a role.
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Again and again there are images from space, that stimulates the imagination. In December, a semi-rectangular object became known on the moon’s surface and only made headlines with the name ‘Space Shack’ – And it turned out to be a simple rock in the end.
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