Alexander Novgorodov was browsing some NASA photographs of Mars, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, when he ran across something peculiar:
There is a strange door-like structure at the base of the mountain formation from a NASA image of Mars that is causing a stir. The first person to notice it wasn’t a NASA scientist, however, but rather a Russian reader of the portal R&D.Cnews, Alexander Novgorodov. Taking a closer look at an image taken by the spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, he noticed an unusual morphology, which looks strikingly like a manmade doorway.
Of course, NASA scientists quickly covered it up, saying that the doorway is simply a boring old weather erosion.
Previously on Neatorama: Martian Cave
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I was once interested in robotics, but dude, get the f*** outta here, I'll start digging on this today!
Who knows, maybe that's my job in the future :)
And the Java program is actually downloadable here: http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm