The mysterious red planet has long attracted the attention of people. Among the other planets of the solar system, Mars is most similar to the Earth and, theoretically, that is why it can someday be colonized by humanity.
Some even sincerely believe that Mars was once inhabited (because it supposedly left clear traces of miraculous canals and the ruins of cities), and perhaps it is inhabited by some mysterious extraterrestrial race even now (and why not?).
Well, or, in extreme cases, there may well be a secret base of aliens from the "far-distant galaxy." Yes, we still have not found evidence of their presence. But this is only because they (or we?) Are not yet ready for contact.
Here are 10 of the most popular "conspiracy theories" associated with Mars.
10. All living things came to Earth from Mars
As you know, scientists studying space objects have repeatedly discovered on asteroids and some satellites of the planets of the solar system (for example, Europe, Triton, Enceladus, Ceres, West, Themis, etc.) not only traces of water, but also organic molecules. In science (and even more so in pseudoscience), the theory of panspermia has recently been popular, according to which life arose on Earth thanks to "space wanderers" - meteorites and comets "infected" with organics somewhere in other galaxies. By the way, this theory was known back in the 5th century. BC, it was described by the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. And modern Mars fans claim that earthly life “flew” from the red planet, because billions of years ago, Mars was alive, flourishing and had real seas.
9. The Redsun project - a secret manned flight to Mars
In 2011, the Italian ufologist Luca Scantamburlo launched in comrades like him, "truly believing in aliens" comrades, a real sensation: supposedly, we are all deceived again - in fact, earthlings have secretly colonized Mars since 1971.
Like, one of the participants in a secret mission to the red planet (codenamed Redsun), American astronaut William Rutledge told him about everything personally.
Soon after the last flight to the moon (Apollo 17 mission), the NASA American Agency, together with the USSR, launched a project, the result of which was to become a permanent station on Mars.
The first (exploration) group arrived at the place at the end of 1971, and the second (which included two Americans - Elliott Sea and Routledge, and Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin) - in 1973.
True, the Italians failed to prove this, the NASA training flight footage, which he posted on YouTube, raised great doubts about their authenticity.
By the way, allegedly Rutledge told Scantamburlo that another alien base on the moon was discovered during another secret project.
8. People have already visited Mars (in 1979)
In 1976, 2 “Mars rover” spacecraft — Viking-1 and Viking-2 — descended to the surface of Mars. Both of them worked much longer than the planned 90 days - the first until 1980, and the second until 1978, transmitting to Earth a large number of photos and videos with frames of the surface of the red planet.
And so, in 2014, a woman called Jackie called on one of the American radio shows. She claimed that in the late 1970s. worked at NASA, and also processed information coming from the Vikings.
And supposedly in 1979, on one of the videos, not only herself, but her six colleagues clearly saw 2 human figures in light spacesuits (very different from the bulky and uncomfortable ones that were used by American astronauts at that time).
These people (or someone very similar to them) walked towards the Viking-1. But, they say, it was strictly forbidden for her and other "Nazis" to speak with anyone else.
7. There is a hidden life on Mars
American engineer Gilbert Levin claims that since 1976 (that is, since the first experiments performed using the Viking-1 apparatus, for which samples of Martian soil were taken), he is sure that there is organic matter on the red planet, which means - maybe life.
Like, then in the first samples traces of the vital activity of microorganisms were found: the Martian soil showed an unusually high chemical activity for the "dead" planet, and it absorbed carbon dioxide as if there was something in it that could process and absorb it.
Unfortunately, further experiments simply gave negative (or very fuzzy and ambiguous) results, and therefore his colleagues decided that Mars is still uninhabited. But this is far from the final conclusion!
6. There are many strange objects on Mars
In general, thanks to the “Vikings” and other (later) vehicles, people had the opportunity to examine the Martian surface in great detail.
In most pictures, of course, you can see only the endless stone desert, remarkable only for its extreme “roughness”.
But, of course, whoever seeks will always find, - in some photos, supporters of different alien theories, ufologists, etc. We saw a considerable number of strange and mysterious objects.
For example, in 2015, in one of the pictures, these meticulous “Mars experts” saw something resembling a fallen column with hieroglyphs similar to Egyptian ones, a little later - a woman walking on Mars, a petrified “lizard”, a Martian “crab”, a dinosaur skull , "Humanoid skeleton" and even something resembling a gorilla.
No arguments that this is just a play of light, and that when filming from a different angle, all the mysterious creatures will immediately disappear, are, of course, not accepted by them.
5. On Mars there is a “stargate”
Another object from the Martian image, which caused a stir among ufologists, was noticed by them in September 2015. UFO researchers say that this is something that is obviously man-made (it has too straight lines and too regular shape).
They considered the object to be long ago destroyed and half buried underground by the "stargate" (no more, no less ...), making out, among other things, something similar to the remains of a failed roof with a round hole in the middle.
4. There was a nuclear war on Mars
And a year earlier (in 2014), John Brandenburg, an American physicist working in the field of plasma particles, stated that, quite possibly, a very long time ago there was a nuclear war on Mars (well, or at least there were at least two large nuclear explosions).
What did he draw such a conclusion from? And from the fact that in a very rarefied, but still existing atmosphere of the red planet, there is a large concentration of xenon-129, and in its soil there is an excess of uranium and thorium.
By the way, Brandenburg (it seems sincerely believing that on Mars there are clearly signs of the existence of a highly developed civilization in the form of canals, “ruins of ancient cities”, etc., which we will talk about a little later), noted that it’s in the areas where powerful nuclear explosions allegedly thundered, the remnants of civilization are the least observed, because they are destroyed “to dust”.
3. "Face" on Mars and the ancient city of Kydonia
Well, now more about those “remnants of civilization.”
Back in 1976, one of the many photographs taken by the “Vikings” attracted particularly close attention of researchers, since it clearly shows a huge human “face” on the surface of Mars.
And even then, many scientists quite reasonably decided that this was just a shadow that had successfully fallen on the Martian hill. Later pictures of the same place proved that it was so - the face no longer “showed up”.
But supporters of the "conspiracy theories", of course, are sure that the new photos were specially taken "from the wrong" angle, in order to hide the impressive truth that Mars is inhabited (well, or was such once). But in fact, this object could not have arisen on its own, “by the will of nature”, it is clearly man-made.
As, however, are the “obvious” remnants of the ancient city, which are located just near the “face”, in the region of Kydonia. Like, there you can clearly see the former layout of streets and squares.
2. There are pyramids and sphinx on Mars
Everything in that region of Kydonia (that is, in the immediate vicinity of the Martian “face” and the “ancient city”) has several more mysterious objects that adherents of the theory of civilization on Mars love to “poke in the nose” to those who do not believe in it (read - “very narrow ") To people.
These are the pyramids and the sphinx (according to the assurances of the "Mars experts", similar to the well-known Egyptian ones - they say, both their location and the ratio of the distances between the Martian pyramid-like objects almost perfectly correspond to the "earth analogue").
Again, despite the fact that most scientists claim that these mountains are ordinary, that is, “natural”, ufologists insist that such a geometrically ideal form could not take and arise by itself (and even near the “Martian’s face”). This is nonsense!
1. Phobos is a space station
Back in the 1960s. Soviet astrophysicist Joseph Samuilovich Shklovsky argued that the satellite of Mars Phobos is hollow inside. He made this conclusion on the basis that the calculations of the motion of this cosmic body in orbit yielded specific results - it turned out to be uneven and curved.
Moreover, he had the imprudence to say that perhaps Phobos is of artificial origin. Ufologists and other “alien fishers” immediately joyfully seized on this thought, developing it to the point where, in fact, Phobos is not a satellite, but an ancient orbital space station, which (it could well be) was used to protect Mars from meteorites and asteroids, well, and after the death of civilization on the home planet, of course, became extinct and empty.
Not so long ago, the European Space Agency confirmed the conclusions of Shklovsky - in the center of Phobos there is (!) A natural void, simply because it is formed from the wreckage of several asteroids.