Wreckage on Mars

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"NASA discovered something on Mars that should not exist. A piece of its own spacecraft. Debris from a mission that never landed anywhere near that location. The part is identifiable. Definitely human made. Definitely NASA's. Definitely out of place.

"The agency has no explanation. No recorded trajectory that would place that component in that area. No mission that deposited it there. No rover that carried it. The piece simply appeared.

"Either the debris was moved by forces NASA cannot track, or something else transported it across the Martian surface. Wind? Unlikely. Weather on Mars is not strong enough to carry equipment that far. Aliens? That is the uncomfortable alternative.

"NASA is not saying much. The discovery was buried in a technical report. No press release. No excited tweets. Just a quiet acknowledgment that a piece of human technology is sitting somewhere on Mars where it should not be.

"How did it get there? NASA does not know. That is the only honest answer they have given."

 

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Sounds good, not so? It quickly unravels to being very explainable. The above is from a Facebook page called The Parallax Files which is always posting tantalizing stuff which turns out to be not quite so mysterious. Or ... maybe not?

Real story behind the ‘otherworldly’ wreckage NASA’s Ingenuity 'found' on surface of Mars

The incredible photos were captured on one of 72 flights in 2022.

www.unilad.com

 

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Computer-Assist came up with this:

"NASA's Perseverance rover discovered a piece of its own spacecraft wreckage on Mars, specifically a fragment of a thermal blanket from its descent stage, and the agency is unsure how it ended up there. The descent stage crashed about a mile from the rover's landing site, and it's unclear if the piece landed there directly or was moved by the wind."