Monolith on Mars
Cue the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey…they discovered a monolith on the surface of Mars! Here are the details:
PSP_009342_1725/PSP_009342_1725_RED.NOMAP.JP2
Image location:
X: 6191
Y: 20500
Rotation of image 81.0 degrees.
Have a closer look at the picture below, this angle comes courtesy of the Lunar Explorer Italia:
First the face on mars, then the pyramids…now this monolith. Is it possible that there used to be an ancient civilization on Mars? Is it possible that NASA already knows the answer? Could this be the final straw for disclosure…?
UPDATE: Click this link to download the original photo. (The link should automatically download the IAS Viewer) Then enter the X and Y coordinates above…zoom into the + on the screen. The rotate about 81 degrees.
July 27, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
Is this the same as the monolith below?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=22554
I’m learning something new every day…
July 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm |
Hi Kim,
No, that’s a monolith spotted on Phobos, Mars’ largest moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)
Can you imagine if they are somehow connected?
August 5, 2009 at 3:24 am |
Yes, I could. How would a connection be surprising in the least?
August 4, 2009 at 1:08 am |
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August 4, 2009 at 1:26 am |
How about you link to the image on a NASA site and prove that you aren’t photoshopping BS for ad $$$ or something.
August 11, 2009 at 2:16 pm |
…uhhh, did you see any ads on my blog?
August 4, 2009 at 1:33 am |
Can you imagine that, just like the so-called “face on mars” debunking, this will be debunked too? You’re WAY TOO ready to believe this crap without further *scientific* proof.
August 4, 2009 at 2:54 am |
*scientific* proof of what? That there is rock shaped like a monolith on the surface of Mars?! There’s the picture of it from 2 different sattelites what other *proof* would you like?
August 4, 2009 at 4:39 am
I think what spincycle is that you shouldn’t jump to any conclusions about the nature of this monolith.
Yes it is a monolith in the sense that it is a rocky geological feature. But be careful not to suggest it is anything more then that. People on the internet are very impressionable.
Before we can say is an alien artifact, we need to take a sample. Until then, its a odd rocky formation.
August 4, 2009 at 7:49 am
There’s an absolutely colossal step between “there’s a cuboid-looking shape on mars” and “an ancient civilisation is responsible for it,” you know…
August 4, 2009 at 10:52 am
I believe that spincycle is implying that it’s a little overeager to say that a few potentially random rock formations are evidence of an ancient society. There may or may not be such a thing; it’s difficult-impossible to say right now, as data is insufficient at this time for a conclusion.
I’ll tell you this, though: remember that monolith simply means “one rock”. A big ol’ rock. “A rock shaped like a monolith” means “a rock shaped like one rock” which is, of course, meaningless. Additionally, we have big ol’ single rocks here on Terra Mater, and quite a few of them weren’t even wrought by our hands, or those of any sapient being we’re aware of.
August 4, 2009 at 12:05 pm
All you’ve got is a rocky outcrop and an overactive imagination. What you haven’t got is proof that it’s a designed structure.
August 4, 2009 at 5:26 am |
How do you define “scientific”?
How do you define “proof”?
What “scientific proof” do you present that the image is NOT precisely what it appears to be?
How DOES it appear to you?
What “crap” are you referring to?
Did you know that NASA (Never A Straight Answer) insiders (with NAMES) have admitted that many many photos (including the Face On Mars) have been digitally altered or airbrushed, before being released to the public?
Did you know that US Army Command Sergeant Major (ret.) Bob Dean, who had an above Top Secret clearance, recently indicated that some 40 rolls of film, representing well over a thousand hi-res photos have been intentionally destroyed by NASA (illegal, unconscionable, irresponsible) in order to prevent the public (who PAID for them) from seeing ancient ruins, artefacts & other manufactured structures on the moon?
August 4, 2009 at 2:49 pm
If you’re so certain about what you speak of then present some real proof, or keep quiet. If your idea of proof is a youtube link to some whack-job’s inane ramblings (and therefore, y’know, hearsay), then you’re not really one to be questioning anyone else’s idea on what proof is. The picture above shows a rock. So it’s impressively cuboid in its shape – so what? Are you suggesting that believing it is a rock is somehow less crazy than taking the huge imaginative leap to saying therefore it must prove there was some ancient civilization on Mars? Give me a break. Some of the mental gymnastics you guys have to go through to warp the world into your little view is simply astonishing.
Unfortunately you’re stuck in your own little world now and any time anyone shoves logic in your face, it only makes you retreat further into it. It’s ironic really because people like you always claim the rest of us are under the control of the government or whatever, yet really it is you who are being controlled by your own irrational fears.
August 4, 2009 at 2:59 pm
A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven – Jean Chretien
The credulous both amuse and scare me.
August 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
What debunking has been done? I have heard of no debunking of the Face. If it was debunked, I probably would have heard of it by now. How can anything be debunked without *scientific* proof?
August 4, 2009 at 2:59 am |
Is it not an appeal to authority to ask of the debunkers
to canonize fact or fiction for you. Science should be used to open your mind and not close it.
August 4, 2009 at 3:27 am |
Get to flyin’!
August 4, 2009 at 3:40 am |
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August 4, 2009 at 3:57 am |
I hope we are all aware that Monolith means “Single Stone”
Mono = one
Lith (from lithic) = stone
One we have one large stone. Doesn’t mean there are aliens running around up there.
August 4, 2009 at 4:34 am |
Its Obama’s birth certificate!
August 4, 2009 at 3:09 pm |
Finally! So our president is a Martian?
August 4, 2009 at 6:24 am |
*Proof* is we go there with a man or a bot and find out what that thing looks like up close, and what it’s made of. Ever seen the Giant’s Causway in Ireland? Nature does freaky stuff, so right now that’s just a weird spikey rock until demonstrated otherwise.
August 4, 2009 at 6:38 am |
You watch. We’ll get there, it’s going to say “Interstellar Bypass, Coming Soon!”
August 5, 2009 at 12:47 pm |
If it says anything it will probably say something like “WARNING PLAGUE!! Be careful they call themselves Humans. The facts are the facts: they destroy or consume nearly everything they touch!!!”
August 4, 2009 at 7:27 am |
OK – it looks a lot like the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but seriously folks, I bet a $1,000,000 it’s just a plain old rock that happens to be very “rectangularish”, not some message from an alien civilization.
I mean, don’t you think the aliens would try to be a bit more original than ripping off Arthur C. Clarke?!?
August 4, 2009 at 7:55 am |
Nasa knows the answer they just keep the public in the dark, we have many,many ways and means of thinking, but it’s under government control.
August 4, 2009 at 8:13 am |
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August 4, 2009 at 10:28 am |
If the date & time of the original photo is known, along with its position on the surface, using the shadow, surely some math whiz to calculate the approximate size of the monolith. It would be nice knowing the size as there is nothing to give a relative scale to the monolith. Is it 1m tall or 100m?
August 4, 2009 at 10:54 am |
Nice Photoshop work here.
If it’s not Photoshop, it’s a fragment left behind from a meteor collision.
Don’t tell me we’re going to hear from all the “there’s a face on mars” people on this too!
August 4, 2009 at 10:56 am |
Quite likely the monolith is associated with the humanid and Tharg skulls found by NASA’s Spirit Rover in The Valley of The Battle, reported in July!
http://www.dockersunion.com/vb/showthread.php?p=322#post322
August 4, 2009 at 11:24 am |
Mars was a geologically active planet at one point, it’s probably a natural rock formation. It’s not hard to find rock formations like this on earth that are completely natural.
August 4, 2009 at 11:47 am |
light, salttilite cameras grainy snaps…lots of reason to NOT believe it’s a monolith..and what? The supreme being watched 2001 and thought this would be a cool trick? “Believe 1/2 of what you see, and none of what you hear” a old and wise saying, a straight on shot from mars would be nice.Evan then i’d want to see it myself, be skeptical, it will serve you well
August 4, 2009 at 11:56 am |
Looks like an iPod to me.
August 4, 2009 at 7:21 pm |
Clever.
August 4, 2009 at 12:31 pm |
I’d like proof that it’s “intelligently designed” rather than just an outcrop. Someone/something will need to land near it and take a close look.
August 4, 2009 at 1:02 pm |
Couldn’t it be just shadows or the angle of the picture that makes it look like a monolith? Just as the face on Mars was not really a face but a giant hill with crevices that made it look like a face under certain angles and with shadows…
August 4, 2009 at 1:03 pm |
If anyone else is fooled by this image, then I feel sorry for you. There’s clearly a light colored rectangle containing the area where the shadow lies. There is no doubt that this has all the markings a digitally edited image. I call it bogus.
August 4, 2009 at 2:55 pm |
It’s a coke machine.
August 4, 2009 at 3:39 pm |
Go outside, Get a life, Do something worth while for society.
August 4, 2009 at 5:54 pm |
This is so interesting.
Investigate!!
August 4, 2009 at 7:53 pm |
Could just be a mesa of sort on the surface of Deimos… somewhat similar to Devil’s Tower, Wyoming USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower_National_Monument
or something else ooooOOO
August 4, 2009 at 7:57 pm |
Look up Occam’s Razor. Don’t get carried away…..
August 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm |
I’d be more intersted in finding a pebble in a Mars Bar on Earth, then I could do something with it.
August 5, 2009 at 12:45 am |
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August 5, 2009 at 1:07 am |
mmmm.. reallyy???
kool…
August 5, 2009 at 1:36 am |
Oh my sweet baby Jesus! That insane drug addled alcoholic L. Ron Hubbard was right after all!
August 5, 2009 at 1:38 am |
It’s a square rock! Would anyone need to photo shop this ?
August 5, 2009 at 2:02 am |
Fascinating replies and responses. Reminds me that the truly scientific mind is essentially skeptical. Prove it! Prove, for example that this is a digitally edited image. I’m not suggesting that it’s impossible to do so. But there are choices of directions to jump on conclusions. Whatever your assertion is… prove it, or get off the line.
August 5, 2009 at 2:49 am |
Why not believe it? You trust what’s on the 8 o’clock news – right?
August 5, 2009 at 12:23 pm |
Not Fox News. That’s for sure.
August 5, 2009 at 3:01 am |
It would be nice to have the original source from that picture.What probe took the picture?
Until there it’s just a geometrically shaped rock.
August 5, 2009 at 3:03 am |
Cool!
August 5, 2009 at 3:43 am |
Pardon me..what is the monolith means exactly? thx
August 5, 2009 at 3:57 am |
Hi Mary,
Have a look at the movie 2001 to understand the idea of the monolith.
August 5, 2009 at 3:46 am |
I for one won’t discard the image all together. No harm in being on neutral grounds here. Every time something huge was uncovered it faced criticism. It ain’t necessary that this is one of those times but who knows. Hold on to your seats, wait and watch.
August 5, 2009 at 6:38 am |
Hahoey…! That’s really cool man !!! Where do you get it ?!! I want know about it so much !!! Thx…
August 5, 2009 at 11:43 am |
Hi! Very interesting photo. I wonder if Greg Bear found this before writing “Moving Mars”, what do you think the story will be?
August 5, 2009 at 11:46 am |
It’s a NASA landing module, perhaps. Some of these are still on the Moon.
August 5, 2009 at 12:19 pm |
Actually, that’s mine.
I dropped it last time i was on Mars.
It’s the remote control for my stereo system.
Thanks for finding it, dude. I’ve been having to walk all the way to the darn cabinet every time i need to change the volume…
August 5, 2009 at 1:12 pm |
What is the fuzzy but regularly-shaped darker area surrounding the ‘monolith’, including on the sunlit side, supposed to be? An alien force-field? Looks more like a Photoshop artefact than a Martian one to me.
What is the source of the photo. Till I see that, it’s a poorly-faked hoax for me.
August 5, 2009 at 4:40 pm |
This is almost like believing in magic sky gods. with more of a cover-up
August 5, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
@buddamagoo:
Great spot! It definitely does look like a rectangle on the image, but it’s at a tilted angle. This image seems very suspect.
August 5, 2009 at 7:20 pm |
Forget satellite photos — POINT THE DAMN HUBBLE AT IT! WHy Wait!?
August 6, 2009 at 11:37 pm |
If you look at the objects on the photographs carefully, you will notice that the shadows of the other smaller rocks fall on the opposite direction of the monolith’s shadow. This photo is definitely a FAKE
August 8, 2009 at 6:19 am |
thanks for the opportunity given to comment, I visited another opportunity again
September 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm |
What kind of people do you think are reliable in this world? Police, a governor, an astronaut?
Do you know who Buzz Aldrin is? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfylCbjk09o
November 22, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
Since phobos is hollow, this structure represents the “breathing tube” or “exhaust tube” for its “indoor civilization”.
November 23, 2009 at 1:12 am |
Thanks Scott interesting insight. Keep in mind that this picture is NOT on Phobos…it’s on Mars itself!