Bio Station Alpha -Mars

[Vargr Breath]

Vilani or Vegans ?

 

[Spinward Scout]

I heard about this. 'The Scientists' say it's a Cosmic Ray remnant across the camera lens.

 

[Horatius314]

Looks more like a scoured patch of ice.
Of course, It could also be the cosmic ray collector from the IISS Contact and observation outpost. o:

 

[altasilvapuer]

Anyone else having flashbacks to Men in Black's joking references to "Swamp gas" and the original events that inspired that?

That said, I haven't decided what I think it is. It looks far straighter than most things you find in nature, so I don't think it's a rock or ice (although the resolution's bad enough that it could be), but it could be distortions on the lens - one of the few reasonably straight things in nature that I can think of, at the moment.

I'm just going to call it the Death Star IV laser and say that it was part of the Reagan (or later) administration's "STAR WARS" endeavour.

-asp

 

[aramis]

It looks much like a lenticular cloud formation does when seen from above.

 

[Mithras]

On Google Mars, you can see a fuzzy rectangle around the thing, just like the entire image has been pasted on. Why? By who? That's the real mystery.

 

[Mithras]

Anyone remember the closing scene of Space Cowboys? When Tommy Lee Jones character rides the rocket to the Moon, and on the pull away you see it crashed on the surface, his lifeless body staring back at Earth? Maybe he hit the north pole of Mars!

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Pretty obviously a glitch.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...osmic-ray-glitch/story-e6frfro0-1226070665415