Hey Look A Weird Bright Light Was Spotted On Mars.

[The_King_of_Everything]

Do you see it? There's a little beacon of light in the photograph of Mars above. It's on the left side of the photo and it's pretty darn bright. What could it be? More importantly, what do we want it to be? A Martian signal keeping track of the Curiosity rover? An alien laser beam? A key to a secret portal in the universe? A superhero?

Anything in our imagination is way better than NASA's explanation of the light: which they're saying "might be due to the sun glinting off a rock or cosmic rays striking the camera's detector". Lame.

Here's what Justin Maki of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and leader of the team that built and operates the Navigation Camera says:

"In the thousands of images we've received from Curiosity, we see ones with bright spots nearly every week... These can be caused by cosmic-ray hits or sunlight glinting from rock surfaces, as the most likely explanations."

Come on NASA, don't downplay the lights! At least entertain the thought that Curiosity has stumbled across some secret Mars base. Maybe! NASA says:

The bright spots appear in images from the right-eye camera of the stereo Navcam, but not in images taken within one second of those by the left-eye camera. Maki said, "Normally we can quickly identify the likely source of a bright spot in an image based on whether or not it occurs in both images of a stereo pair. In this case, it's not as straightforward because of a blocked view from the second camera on the first day."
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I wonder how come we haven't seen these in photos before

 

[Yung Yogurt]

smh at not knowing about the light people that live on mars. They are a highly advanced species that reside on a higher plane of existence. Sometimes photographs pick them up when they are mating or eating.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

smh at not knowing about the light people that live on mars. They are a highly advances species that reside on a higher plane of existence. Sometimes photographs pick them up when they are mating or eating.

 

[Black Hans]

That's not a light. That's a piece of lint.

 

[Leasy]

That's not a light. That's a piece of lint.

Don't know that light was seen in a different picture the day before. Abovetopsecret posted the picture.

Might be some type of bacteria or some type of lifeform that creates light in the dark etc... it can be anything.

 

[SemiEnlightenedBum]

i saw it in person both from an earthly perspective and a Cydonia perspective...

 

[I'mHigh]

The explanation I saw by NASA was that it was a cosmic ray, and cosmic rays give the rods and cones in your eyes the false impression of light sometimes when seen. But that wouldn't make any sense because it was a picture taken and not something observed by an actual person, right? I'm no science expert but that explanation seemed foolish

 

[tmonster]

and your life is now different how?:zfg: