Contributing to the desire to see Mars as humanity’s next home is the constant flow of information coming from there, including, or in particular, thousands of images taken by the Highrise camera from above orbit.
Almost every one of them reveals something amazing or mysterious or at least worthy of a very personal look, which is partly why we keep showing them here.
Today, we chose an image taken by the HiRise camera in 2010 from an altitude of 275 km, which depicts a portion of the Kebin crater, in the Terra Sabia region of the planet, the 70 km long archaeological remains now covered in sand dunes.
In some areas covered in dark layered material, these dunes are just as amazing as all the others scattered around the planet, but the angle of this shot, the way light hits the dunes, and our brains’ tendency to find similar patterns and objects when they aren’t there, make Some of us see something else entirely.
This other thing would be footprints, giant and so close that you could imagine a three-legged alien walking on dead soil.
The dark sand dunes seem to have arranged themselves in footprints with fingers pointing to the north, each footprint slightly ahead of the other, as if a Mars Godzilla was in motion, and as a measure, keep in mind that the image shows a patch of Earth about 5 kilometers wide .
Source: Auto Evolution