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Trees on Mars? What NASA Might Know About Extraterrestrial Life
Does NASA know about foliage on Mars? The claim about trees on Mars is made in the comprehensive book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA. This book is authored by Richard Hoagland, a science adviser to CBS News during the Apollo program, and Mike Bara, a Boeing engineer. It's possible that these guys have lost their marbles. But if what they say is true, then NASA knows darn well that there's extraterrestrial plant life.
Here are some fun conspiracy ideas about extraterrestrial trees, the dark side of the Moon and such inspired by Dark Mission.
The Dark Side of the Moon is Colonized
In the science fiction film Iron Sky, Nazis escaped to the Moon after World War II. Where did they set up? On the dark side.
There actually is a dark side of the Moon -- a side that we never see from Earth. Since we can't see what's going on up there, some people truly believe that there are full cities or military bases on the heavenly body.
Some fringe elements believe that the dark side of the Moon has been claimed by alien forces. I think it's more likely that if anyone has been building on the Moon, it's the US military.
Mars Has Trees
The NASA photo to the right was published in The Telegraph on January 13, 2010. It shows the surface of Mars. Do you not see trees?
NASA dismisses this as an illusion. They say the tree-like structures are debris or dust clouds left by glaciers. What do you think?
In the YouTube video below, a guy zooms in on another Mars photo that I saw posted by the European Space Agency.
There Are Pyramids on Mars
In Dark Mission, Hoagland states that there are pyramids on Mars that have the same dimensions as those found on Earth. The implication is that the Martian pyramids and the Earth pyramids were constructed by the same intelligent beings.
One mathematically-informed challenge to Hoagland's specific evidence can be found on a Washington University webpage. Basically he's saying that you can find mathematical coincidences anywhere and that Hoagland is being too generous in calling dimensions of structures "the same."
Nonetheless, ufologists insist that the Cydonia region of Mars includes a number of artificial structures. The photo to the right is often studied for pyramids. The structure of a human face has also been identified in Cydonia.
Mars Has a Human Face
The Cydonia area of Mars has attracted interest from respected scientists and crazed crackpots. In 1976 NASA's Viking mission to Cydonia captured an image of what appears to be a human face on the Martian surface.
Some people say this is evidence of intelligent life having lived on Mars. NASA dismisses the apparent face on Mars as a pareidolia - a mental trick similar to when we see animal shapes in clouds.
More Outer Space Links
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Fascinating! Read this article for an open-minded yet skeptical look at the Face on Mars. - First Human Born On Mars
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A news report from Cydonia, Mars dated 2032 reports that children raised on Mars are suffering from depression. This is despite UV light therapies installed with the Mars One colonization in 2023.
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face of Cydonia is it really TRUE ??
Very interesting read - thank you for sharing
I certainly hope that such a pretty young lady will not have "maus sonhos" due to all these intriguing phenomenae.
Strange, but defiinitely NOT TRUE!! I'm glad you describe them as 'fun conspiracy ideas' Fun, they may be, but can anyone seriously believe that there is life of this kind on Mars. There's no credibility to the images, no logic in the science of complex Earth-like life on Mars, and no possible reason or way in which the truth (if it were true) could be kept hidden by NASA
As far as Cydonia is concerned, other images have been taken at different times which show this to be nothing more than a trick of the light - the human brain has a natural propensity for trying to identify human facial features from the most basic of information.
Nice article though!
very nice article indeed. I myself am an amateur researcher when it comes to aliens. There may be certain truth when conspiracy theorists claim that there may be aliens who inhabit the darker side of moon.
There are also certain claims that Mars and moon may have been space stations for aliens en route to earth. How much truth is there in these claims, no one knows. But it is definitely fun to read them.
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Yes, the Cydonia face appears in space agency photos. People have looked at the images in different ways, accounting for erosion... The book I linked to has many more such images.
As for how it all fits together, um... One idea is that giant pyramids were fueling stations designed to be seen from outer space. But that's getting very out-there.
NASA documents from a few decades ago are candid about expecting to find intelligent life, though not necessarily on Mars... Here's a newspaper article about intelligent life on other planets. It's from today!
Fascinating! Thanks for the hub!
Great hub! Voted up and interesting. I especially liked the photo of the Martian 'trees'.
Speaking of the devil, there's something slightly similar in Nambung National Park, in Western Australia. It's an area called The Pinnacles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pinnacles_%28West...
These spires could be mistaken for dead tree snags by alien observers with hand-held telescopes in a satellite. However the proposed geologic mechanism for their formation probably could not apply to Mars.
This is really an interesting hub! Images from outer space never fail to amaze me. Thanks for sharing.
We already have satellites circling the moon mapping every square inch. So we already know what's on the dark side of the moon. You can see it yourself with Google maps of the moon. http://google.com/moon
Latest discoveries on Mars I find very interesting. I check out NASA's website every once in a while and I saw a picture of the rock they found that looks like a pyramid. And the latest pictures of what looks like dried-up riverbeds are also very interesting.
I can't get enough of Mars so thank you for this article! I really enjoyed your links, too. I'm waiting for my Sister to get home from the Mars Analogues Conference in Morocco so I can pick her head for details. I think you just gave me an idea for an article.
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Ooh, I hadn't heard of the Mars Analogues Conference before! Here's a link for anyone who's interested: http://www.ibnbattutacentre.org/conf/mars2012/?
Thanks, Sueko!
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