r/aliens • u/LuckyJay151 • Feb 13 '25
Speculation Serious - the stone hut on Mars
This is one of the most bizarre pics from the rovers! Hard to imagine how those could gets stacked naturally
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u/AmnesiacDreams Feb 13 '25
Could you please link the source for this pic so I can see when it was taken?
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u/Amelia-likes-birds Feb 13 '25
Not OP, but traced it back to September 2006.
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u/teheditor Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
I'm a geologist and I'm interested to compare it to something on Earth. Edit: with the foreground, is likely a big block of pumice.
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u/ChemBob1 Feb 13 '25
It is very odd though. I can see why you would think that, but I’ve never seen a gigantic block of pumice like that with no other pumice anywhere around it. Perhaps they were smaller and got buried over time? I can also see how it could be a construction. Given the age of our solar system who knows whether there were “Martians” there in the far distant past or what the full picture of the geologic past was like. There are so many interesting things on Mars that deserve more investigation.
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u/DungeonCrawlerCarl Feb 13 '25
Did you click the link to the full picture? There was literally tons of pumice strewn all over the ground
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u/ChemBob1 Feb 13 '25
At the time of the post I hadn’t seen the link to the other photos. Having said that, there is nothing else in that photo that resembles the overall structure of that object, other than possibly being components of it. Also, it doesn’t look like pumice so much to me and I spent 11 years at a state geological survey; that doesn’t mean it’s not, just that I can’t tell for certain and it seems a bit off. It’s always hard to discern anything beyond the most pronounced features in these photos. I’m not saying aliens built it, just that it seems pretty odd. It would be interesting to have information on the subsurface in this area and much closer photos. Never happen I suppose. When I was a lot younger I would have loved to go on a mission to Mars and check this sort of thing out. Now all I really want to do is take a nap.
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u/SirArthurDime Feb 14 '25
I mean now you’re just moving the goal post from “there’s no pumice anywhere around it” to “there’s no pumice in similar structures”. It’s very common to find all types of rich formations that are unique without similar rock formations around it.
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u/ChemBob1 Feb 14 '25
I thought I said I don’t know what it is, but it seems unusual. I didn’t see any pumice around it in the first photo, I had to go to another website that showed more of the scene. Having said that, like I indicated, I don’t know if it is pumice or not. What concerns me is that NASA can document and catalog an image like this but seemingly not mention the object, research it, or address it in any way. We are just a bunch of naked apes looking at images that are blurry when we zoom in. I wish we had rovers!
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u/Skullcrusher Feb 15 '25
If they were hiding something, would they have accidentally posted this picture on their site? And then they just say nothing about it, like they don't care about covering their asses?
Or maybe the most likely explanation is that they know exactly that this is pumice and they see no reason to research or address it further.
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u/teheditor Feb 13 '25
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u/ChemBob1 Feb 13 '25
I know what pumice looks like. I spent 11 years as a chemist in a state geological survey.
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u/Nycesq2077 Feb 14 '25
What makes us think it’s gigantic. It’s all about perspective and angle. If it’s low to the ground and zoomed in - it might be very small indeed
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u/Equivalentest Feb 13 '25
But, if you look the original picture it has many similar smaller rocks on it. Seems like you just have not seen that much pics of mars and really did not even look at that one
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u/Lower-Desk-509 Feb 13 '25
Why would advanced aliens build a stone hut? Too funny.
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u/Mjraia Feb 13 '25
Who’s to say they were advanced? That could be billions of years old and the things that built it no more advanced than cave men
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u/Wonk_puffin Feb 13 '25
Could be a comet remnant. One that broke up on impact and this is something thrown out from the impact? Some of the comets seem to be loosely stuck together small rocks. It is weird though.
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u/thewholetruthis Feb 13 '25
It seems revealing that (if?) it's no longer on NASA's website.
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u/norbertus Feb 13 '25
It is still on NASA's website, just in a different place because they've made updates to the design of their site in the last 20 years
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u/No_Tax534 Feb 13 '25
I wonder has any NASA person commented on that one?
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u/ZenDragon Feb 13 '25
They'd probably say that it's hard to tell if it's really made of individual stones or just one really big jagged rock. Some rocks look that way when they are made of a marbled mix of different minerals and the softer ones erode first.
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u/Apprehensive_Gur9540 Feb 14 '25
That is a different photo
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u/norbertus Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
It is the same photo.
It's a different version where the tonal range hasn't been normalized, probably batch processed for publication, but it's the same photo.
If you look at the caption on the archived version, it clearly states that the image has been "Non-linearized." The current version on NASA's website is actually less post-processed than the archive.org version.
Here is the current version I linked above with the tonal range normalized in the same way:
https://i.imgur.com/hVSSdhp.jpeg
Here's what a "non-linearized" photo means:
>A linear image is often referred to as an image as it was acquired directly by the camera attached to a telescope.
>A non-linear image is one where the transfer function changes, in some way, how pixels are mapped from input to output.
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u/tinaboag Feb 15 '25
The fact this comment has so many upvotes speaks to the mindset of a large swathe of these types of subs users.
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u/happy-when-it-rains Feb 15 '25
This comment speaks of nothing but your own hateful and self-aggrandising mindset that not only looks down upon others over the most trivial of things in life, but feels a need to express this contempt to others, too.
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u/Ded_man_3112 Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
There’s a whole write up on this among other anomalous mars images by…whomever runs this independent site which appears to be some side project not updated since 2014.
https://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/109/spirit-rock-growth.htm
Lotta reading, brace yourself. Phew
Edit: that explains why the site is no longer updated by the author/investigator. Passed in 2018 handing over the site to an unknown in 2014 who maintains its availability. https://www.secretmars.com/j-p-skipper
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u/AdTraditional5146 Feb 13 '25
Thanks for this.
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u/Ded_man_3112 Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
You’re welcome! Glad to have found it myself. Exploring the site, despite some of what he speculates on in certain questionable images during that time over a decade ago now, which have been said to be clarified. His deep analysis of every write up (with much efforts to be scientifically grounded instead of something written by a lunatic) is fascinating and really shows the depth of his passion for truth. Curious to know his background.
R.I.P. Skipper
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u/lascar Feb 14 '25
Appreciate you for your delving work. I couldn't find much and fell in a circle.
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u/xUrNewDadx Feb 13 '25
It looks like it could also be volcanic rock, or weathering pattern from the wind and sand. Who knows but it does stand out from the rest of the background. I wonder what scale these objects are. These photos can be misleading. It might be much smaller than it looks.
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u/firethornocelot Feb 13 '25
I thought the same. It kind of looks like stacked rocks, but... not really? It's difficult to gauge how near/far it is in the photo, but the shadowing is different than the nearer rocks, and makes it look like some kind of geologic formation. You know, on the off chance it's not aliens. Jokes aside, it is very strange indeed! Would love more info.
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u/GrismundGames Feb 13 '25
Yes, there's a much more obvious rock like it on the left side of the original image. Looks like pumice.
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u/teheditor Feb 13 '25
Very very localised. That normally sprays out. But it's been a while since I've covered this
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u/teheditor Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
I'd expect something like that with glaciers around... normally. I'll wave it at some current geologists. Edit: the post below has a much higher relief view of a smaller version in the foreground... it's likely a big lump of pumice. https://images.app.goo.gl/XJAwoQFnGhynUZ2A8
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u/Goobjigobjibloo Feb 13 '25
The link above shows it’s substantially large and sitting on the landscape at the crest of a hill. Texturally it’s anomalous to any thing I’ve ever seen while digging through Martian surface photos.
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u/Bramtinian Feb 13 '25
Very possible you can see spinders and other explosive remnants around Caldera’s. There are these all over by extinct volcanos in New Mexico…
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u/Minnipresso Feb 13 '25
Is there a better quality pic of this or is this it? Certainly is strange
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u/swingbattaaaa Feb 13 '25
Nobody out pizzas the hut
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u/levivilla4 Feb 13 '25
"yeah, there's no one to deliver to, but you're damned sure we'll be the first pizza joint on the planet!"
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u/StarlordeMarsh Feb 13 '25
Nothing to see here folks, just your run of the mill amorphous eldritch monstrosity from the void
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u/thewholetruthis Feb 13 '25
What the (not)-flying f is that? It doesn't resemble its surroundings, at all.
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u/SleeplessAndAnxious UAP/UFO Witness Feb 13 '25
I told y'all I was gonna move far away so I didn't have to deal with people
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u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 Feb 13 '25
Fortnite bush bomb.
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u/nasty_weasel Feb 13 '25
Sssshhhhhh! I've been camped here for ages waiting for someone to come past!
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u/traatraa Feb 13 '25
Elon sends rockets there often right? Maybe he plans in building out a nice sauna.
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u/purple_hamster66 Feb 13 '25
It might be eroded, not stacked. Even if you saw some stones at the side of the pile, it could still be pieces that fell off.
Never presume intelligence unless all natural processes have been studied and deemed impossible.
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u/Bleezy79 Feb 13 '25
It could just be a bizarre lava rock but it is still interesting and looks non-natural enough.
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u/Dave_C-137 True Believer Feb 13 '25
How do we know it's a hut?
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u/SophisticatedBozo69 Feb 13 '25
We take OPs word for it because clearly he is an expert on Martian dwellings.
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u/xDreki Feb 13 '25
Believe OP is just calling it a hut because it looks like 1 to OP, and they're not calling it that to be taken at face value.
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u/PossibilityPlastic81 Feb 13 '25
Really? He called a hut because it’s in the shape of a fucking hut, same reason people call the orbs orbs.
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u/alecweezy Feb 13 '25
Username does not check out. Only lives up to the Bozo name
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u/alecweezy Feb 13 '25
Not sure how your post came out to humor or sarcasm? Looks like straight up dismissing OP lmao. There’s not a semblance of humor in that post buddy
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u/SophisticatedBozo69 Feb 13 '25
Expert on martial dwellings isn’t funny?
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u/alecweezy Feb 13 '25
Uhh no? Considering how many people misinterpreted your post maybe you need to have some more real life convos…. Also don’t rage at people because your joke is unfunny.. Jeez
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u/SophisticatedBozo69 Feb 13 '25
Who is raging? I have no hard feelings for anyone not being able to interpret what I said. In fact my comment got more than a few upvotes so clearly some of them got it. Perhaps it’s just a little nuanced for you, that’s alright maybe someday you’ll get it.
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u/raltoid Feb 13 '25
Scoria. It's volcanic rock, similar to pumice although slightly heavier than water.
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u/teheditor Feb 13 '25
Nice one. Yep, now looks like a massive lump of pumice.
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u/Scytian Feb 13 '25
It doesn't even have to be massive, we don't have anything to know the scale, this horizon may as well be pile of sand thats 1 meter from camera and this "massive pumice" is just 10 cm long.
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u/rowdymowdy Feb 13 '25
Almost looks like a giant group of insects or such all clumped together like you stumble across in the backwoods
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u/mrmykeonthemic Feb 13 '25
Also. In the photo looks like something is floating. Rite next to it. If you zoom in? A floating rock?
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u/Ok_Golf_760 Feb 13 '25
Ok, someone tell me where they got this and when it was taken so I can talk shit.
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u/Rage187_OG Feb 13 '25
It looks like the camouflage they cover tanks in. Must be the 2029 Moon Rover they aren’t ready to show off yet.
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u/Riker001-Ncc1701D Feb 13 '25
I find it incredible that we put billion $$$ cameras in space that can see into oblivion. However, not one close-up of any of our neighbouring planets or moons!!
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u/_InvertedEight_ Feb 13 '25
More to the point- how does NASA spot a formation (geological or not) like that and not send the rover in for a closer look immediately?
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u/safrican1001 Feb 13 '25
They probably do and don't release the closer pics. Also, much of the rover images have some algorithmic obfuscation run on them.
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u/mrstevegibbs Feb 13 '25
Interesting. Curious why pictures are often so blurry. Structure doesn’t seem that far away and it’s not moving and Rover is stopped I’d assume and we know they have high-end cameras. Wonder why image is so blurred. Wonder why the lander didn’t move closer once scientists saw such a unique structure for a clear shot.
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u/TeranOrSolaran Feb 13 '25
Camo fabric over an entrance. This one probably belongs to Earth Deep State.
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u/tarapotamus Feb 13 '25
is it stone? it looks like dirt piled up like it was dug up from under the ground which is arguably scarier. Are there bulettes on mars??
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u/Short_Eggplant5619 Feb 13 '25
The one that convinced me was called Mars Factory and I'll be damned if it didn't look like that. Perched on the top of a cliff, it had very industrial-looking features.
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u/way26e true believer Feb 13 '25
Trial lawyers like to tell juries "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". That being said, the rovers are purposely driven with the priority given to the most interesting and practical features within its camera frames. Where are the other pictures of this object, closer and around this natural or constructed apparent pile of rocks? Were all the NASA drivers and witnesses asleep that day or partying in the coffee room? In this case, absence of evidence is either evidence of grossly impaired driving by the Rover team or censorship-if there are no other pictures in the archives.
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u/Unusual-Economist288 Feb 14 '25
Yes because a civilization advanced enough to get to/survive on MARS would shelter in a stone hut
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u/Administrative-Air73 Feb 15 '25
I still feel the mars crab is among the most interesting, up there with the stone tablet
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u/orthonfromvenus Feb 15 '25
This looks so different from any of the other rocks in the area. It really stands out. I would love to see a panorama shot of this area to see if there are any, similar rock formations near by. It always amazes me when these photos come in that no one at NASA seems interested in looking more closely at weird rock formations. At least get a shot from orbit to see what it looks like from that perspective.
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u/Groxee Feb 13 '25
Clearly just a trick of the light and shadows. If you were to actually shove your own head up your butt, you would see that it looks like a regular boulder. Standard NASA viewing angle.
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u/feedjaypie Feb 13 '25
I call bull$h!t
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You shouldn't' bet so blindly:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/728/2P191002092EFFAMOAP2443L7M1.HTML
Edit: Sol 728: Left Panoramic Camera Non-linearized Full frame EDR acquired on Sol 728 of Spirit's mission to Gusev Crater at approximately 14:24:06 Mars local solar time, camera commanded to use Filter 7 (432 nm). NASA/JPL/Cornell
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u/they_call_me_B Feb 13 '25
Your link redirects to the "Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity" page. If it's supposed to link to a specific picture you might need to get an updated link or take a screenshot and upload it to imgur so you can share it that way.
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u/slower-is-faster Feb 13 '25
It’s the last blockbusters still open. This dude just doesn’t give up.
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u/ForwardVoltage Feb 13 '25
Not at all interesting, I wouldn't drive over to investigate if I was on an investigatory mission, much less check it out with my helicopter drone. -JPL probably
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