'Monolith' Object on Mars? You Could Call It That

http://www.space.com/15244-monolith-mars-2001-space-odyssey.html

by evo_9 • 14 years ago

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pfraze• 14 years ago

TLDR it's a rock.

excuse-me2• 14 years ago

Really? What a surprise

warpspeed• 14 years ago

From the article: "When your resolution is too low to fully resolve an object, it tends to look rectangular because the pixels in the image are squares. Any curve will look like a series of straight lines if you reduce your resolution enough."

Like the "face," this is most likely the combination of the right angle and shadowing, low resolution, and our hopes of finding something earth-shattering on an alien planet.

excuse-me2• 14 years ago

A Monolith on Mars?

Damn Fedex - it was supposed to be delivered to Jupiter.

nkoren• 14 years ago

Tl;dr: it's a smallish squarish rock.

There is, however, a genuinely impressive monolith on Mars' moon Phobos. It's about the size of a 30-story building.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith

'Monolith' Object on Mars? You Could Call It That

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