Sorry but my skeptic side has emerged with this one. The truth is out there, but not with these images from Mars Rover.
"A widely discussed image from Sol 2692 (March 3, 2020) shows a small, smooth, cylindrical object appearing to cast a shadow on the Martian surface. This photo, taken by Curiosity’s Mastcam, has been shared widely on Reddit and social media as a potential UAP.
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"NASA and planetary scientists consistently explain that images claimed to show unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) on Mars are misinterpretations of natural geological features, camera artifacts, or image processing effects"
https://www.space.com/17283-mars-photos-...rover.html
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An example and an explanation:
"Experts say the four "objects" are actually just dead pixels in the rover's CCD camera — single points in the camera's imager that have lost functionality and register as white. Marc D'Antonio, a photo and video analyst for MUFON [Mutual UFO Network], told Huffington Post, "I fully concur at this point that these are dead pixels on the imager. All CCD [cameras] have them, and in a bland atmosphere like that at Mars, they would be very obvious as opposed to an active atmosphere like Earth, where they could end up hidden for a long time before anyone noticed them.""
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As for UAPs in and around Earth, well that's another matter.
"A widely discussed image from Sol 2692 (March 3, 2020) shows a small, smooth, cylindrical object appearing to cast a shadow on the Martian surface. This photo, taken by Curiosity’s Mastcam, has been shared widely on Reddit and social media as a potential UAP.
- However, experts and NASA data analysts explain that the object is most likely a small, oddly shaped rock eroded by wind over time. The apparent shadow is consistent with a stationary rock, not an airborne object.
- A key point of clarification: Curiosity uses dual cameras (left and right) for stereoscopic imaging. When comparing the left and right camera images from the same time, the object only appears in one frame—indicating it is not a real object in the sky but rather an artifact, such as a sensor glitch or a rock in the foreground." (LLM)
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"NASA and planetary scientists consistently explain that images claimed to show unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) on Mars are misinterpretations of natural geological features, camera artifacts, or image processing effects"
https://www.space.com/17283-mars-photos-...rover.html
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An example and an explanation:
"Experts say the four "objects" are actually just dead pixels in the rover's CCD camera — single points in the camera's imager that have lost functionality and register as white. Marc D'Antonio, a photo and video analyst for MUFON [Mutual UFO Network], told Huffington Post, "I fully concur at this point that these are dead pixels on the imager. All CCD [cameras] have them, and in a bland atmosphere like that at Mars, they would be very obvious as opposed to an active atmosphere like Earth, where they could end up hidden for a long time before anyone noticed them.""
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As for UAPs in and around Earth, well that's another matter.
Truth fears no question. Anon