NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Captured
A photo of what looks like a purposefully carved doorway that leads somewhere into the depths of the Red Planet.
The Photo Was
Captured by the Curiosity’s Mastcam on May 7 as the rover journeyed up Mount Sharp.
As Reported By Gizmodo
The grainy image has excited conspiracy theorists as the formation doesn’t look like a naturally occurring phenomenon
But Instead
Appears as though a doorway was purposefully carved into the side of the mountain.
Ashwin Vasavada Says
“It’s just the space between two fractures in a rock,”, a project scientist in the Mars Science Laboratory.
“We’ve been traversing through an area that has formed from ancient sand dunes. The fractures we see in this area are generally vertical.