Another monolith on Mars

Yet another monolith-like structure has been discovered on the surface of Mars from a picture snapped by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The picture seems to show a tall rectangular structure standing pretty much by itself, looking for all the world like the mysterious monolith found on the moon in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jonathon Hill, a research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, contends that it is just a boulder that happens to look rectangular, but probably is not. What do you think?

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Monolith on Mars

This photo of a mysterious object on the surface of Mars was snapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from 165 miles up. It appears to show a free-standing geometric block of undetermined height. It immediately brings to mind, of course, the alien-created monolith from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. But is this object artificial?

A scientist from the University of Arizona is quoted as saying, "In reality it's more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature." If so, where is the bedrock from which it has been broken? Where is the stone that fractured off to create this shape? The object seems to be standing quite on its own on a plain of soil. We cannot say it is an artificial creation, of course, but we can add it to the growing list of peculiar Martian anomalies. Read more here.

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