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 and 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, the object's intriguing form does not denote the presence of a real doorway, nor would it imply that the mountain formation is of artificial origin. That would make an incredible story indeed, but the likely cause it boring old weather erosion. However, the peculiarities are of interest due to their unique morphology. The unusual teardrop mountain formation, which likely resulted from some sort of weathering, is located amid Mar's frozen ocean region. A planet of extremes, Mars is home to the largest mountain in the solar system, the largest canyon in the solar system and intensely severe dust storms. It is also home to the only other likely option for humans to live within our Solar System.

According to astrophysicist Charlie Lineweaver of Australian National University, "ever since the first telescope was invented and we learnt that there are other worlds out there, people have dreamed of going to them. Of course we now know that Mars is the only other planet in the solar system you’d want to set foot on."

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Even though it is probably natural but it looks almost like a perfect rectangle. It would be great if it turned out life did live there, but I would not like to find intelligent life still living there if it did.

Wow, a dark object and everyone thinks its a door in a mountain! I believe it's just a shadow - cant be erosion as Mars doesn't have seas and oceans to get the water cycle going, though it could just be winds...

Either way, people shouldn't get excited over a dark object on another planet, what's going to happen when man manages to walk on Mars, goto the 'door' and find it's a shadow or hole? If there are Martians, theyd be laughing at us...

so it cant be erosion but it can be winds......? pretty sure you have no idea what you're talking about. also, if people are making a stir about it, including nasa, then more than likely its not a shadow.

If you look left you see another dark spot (shadow) in the shape of a triangle, which looks to be coming from a rock. I think the "doorway" is just shadow. Besides, it's at the base of the mountain... so why is it facing the mountain wall? shouldn't it be a part of the mountain wall? And the image is birds-eye-view... if it is a gap, then it's a hole in the ground, not a doorway And I didn't read about NASA investigating this... I just read a Russian reader of some magazine spotted it.

Could this just be a gap in the original photograph or maybe a copy of the original photo?

It looks fairly big, doesn't really resemble a rectangle or a door and is on an angle so it would make entering and exiting it a bit of a hassle.

Just looking at the scale of things it would be a very large doorway seeing as it is on the side of a mountain.

has anyone thought of deep hole from crater impact. it dosent look like a door to me.

2008: A Space Odyssey!

What about this characteristic over here? It looks like... a loading ramp. OMG, the mountain is a giant Martian supermarket!

I am sure it is a door. This is very bad news for Earthlings...now that the Martian Federation has been 'found out', that door will soon open and a swarm of Martian Spaceships will be headed for Earth. Who knew that one little picture would be the beginning of war with Mars.

That's pretty cool. But who knows what it really is.

They're still obsessed with Mars.

Thats some interesting looking geology in that pic Siara. Good find.

i don't see anything that resembles a door

The door kinda looks like a shadow... And is that noahs ark!?!!!

Door to a crooked house maybe. Or not

Well , many another artificial structures have been found on Mars . I am not surprised . We can't be alone . It would be a phenomenal waste of space if we were .

As much as I want to know that we're not alone in the Universe... I would think that if "aliens" (i'm talking about smart beings who are presumed to still exist in this Solar System or near by) had a door on Mars, I would think they would have taken care of the possibility of us actually seeing the door. Obviously if they're visiting our planet zooming back and fourth from Mars to Earth they'd know that we would be able to see the "door"!
On another level, we still have pretty primitive brains (oh yes we're smart, but how much better could our brains work for us). Our brains are programmed to try to make sense out of shapes, colors, and other stimuli. We see what looks like a square object, however I suspect its just a mountainous form that when looked at from Mars' surface at the right angle might just be seen as this shape---> /¯¯¯\ or something similar. What a nice Sun angle we have for this picture also...
That's my bit! The same thing as the "infamous" face... (It still could be a "door" however, I won't deny that quite yet without more evidence...)

On another "funny but highly serious" note, if there are any "aliens" out there reading this post, pleeeease-pleeease come pick me up! My lips will be forever sealed if you wish, although i'll always have a huge smile on my face I won't be able to hide! I'm infinitely serious!!!

You all have an awesome day!!!

Jamin

Wait a minute here, although this person "might not" have a clue... EROSION IS STILL 100% POSSIBLE ON MARS!!! There's still water over there (underground, ice or not) and possibilities of current erosion (even however slight) are being seen today! Water might still be making it's way to the surface somehow (watch the Mars Rising series on the Discovery Channel for a quick lesson)...
If I don't know what I'm talking about either, and/or my definition of erosion is suspected to be skewed, someone please let me know...


Jamin

I think Primeval's hit the nail on the head-- it's Noah's Ark. That's why it's teardrop shaped.

Guess I left the door open. BRB.

Of course it's a door. It's how Elvis takes Shergar for a run.

case solved. It's noah's Ark. so that's why we couldn't find it here. It was there all along.

okay okay i admit it i went a little crazy with some super lasers and happen to do that..... well yeh finding the door wont do much at all unless we explore it

So, regarding the whole "Hey, that looks like a door on Mars!" thing, the problem is one would have to make three assumptions:

1) Martians use doors.
2) Martian doors are similar enough to our own that we can recognize them when we see them.
3) There are Martians.

As I believe was stated, this merely "looks" like it "could" be a door...but really, anything beyond that is just fanciful imagination.

100 years from now the explorers of Mars will say: 'you know frank once people thought this here mound was a door!' And they will laugh

It looks a bit like a door. So...it must be a door.

Nahhh - knowing our luck, it would be a Martian Wal-Mart!

I hope but I think nope. The door isn't straight, or it is a shadow. We get excited by many things. If it is a door, where does it go and why the need to be secretive about it and go underground?

Yeh or a McDonalds, they're everywhere

depends on how long the seas have been frozen for as well, but it doenst make sense, unless that mountin is hollow, why would a near perfect rectangle break off. or collapse.

Ok, i am sure other people have mentioned this on other places, but why does everyone think that aliens are that smart? If we hardley know anything about Mars, How do we know that, if they exist, martians know we exist? Maybe they are trying to do what we are doing and sending pods to earth to chheck it out. Maybe the door going into the ground is because the Martians are UV Sensitive.

How hard is it to invent sunblock and Ray-Bans?

Its amazing on one reader can fool many ppl..its a shadow fellow astronomers.

All I want to know is, where are the canals? Men of science, geniuses used to see canals. Now that we can all see them, where are they? It's martians covering up martian stuff, I tell ya. Planet got some damn funny "shadows" if ya ask me. MIBs must be martians.

It doesn't look anything like a door, just a big squiffy hole in a rock!

These are taken from my personal collection, which I spent hundreds of hours compiling. If you take the time, you can categorize a number of similar artifacts, objects, pairs, sets, and solar aligned objects on Mars.

I rarely display my collection publicly, but I'm making an exception in this case, as the object presented is very similar to others I observed, although smaller. I entitled these curious objects "square holes." They tend to face the sun, and will often be found in alignment with the sun. Here's a [broad example] of what I mean. Look in the center of the photograph for a series of slits, all facing the same direction and aligned similarly.

As you'll see below, often there will be something apparently sticking out of the square hole. Personally, I think these are living objects of some kind, similar to plants or animals on earth, but far older, perhaps even millions of years old, and they can grow to vast sizes. Sort of like fish on earth, which never stop growing, and if long lived can reach a great size, limited only by the source of nourishment. In the case of these objects, if the source of energy is the sun, there may be no limit to size, save some other limiting factor as yet to be determined. It's just a guess, but I have many many other examples of curious objects sticking out of various sized, and shaped holes in the ground.

On a final note, let me say that it takes a long time to develop a spatial orientation to these photos. Your eyes learn with experience what is in front, back, etc. I'm still learning. I've tried to help some by marking the photos.

Enjoy my hard work.

Haha, the comments are pretty entertaining! Here I was thinking this is going to be another the 'Face on Mars' debate again. Good stuff. Personally, just looks like a a near perfect rectangular shadow.

Next, we'll have photos from the International Space Station showing Earth with a huge perfect circle over a few states wide and people will think it's a Mothership hovering in front of the sun when it actually was a solar eclipse.

'Monolith' -Space Odyssey 2001

I'm curious what is in the other shadow area to the left of plateau? As for the door itself, the hillside below and above it slant away from it leaving no possibility that a protrusion is causing the dark rectangle. This is truly as yet an unexplained mystery.

I may have missed it, but I can't believe I haven't seen someone mention the word CAVE yet.

So it is more likely that Mars would have a man/alien-made door on it than a common cave?

Cave, hell, we talkin' hanger here. Anything fat enough to need a door that wide would be easy to spot. Cave? Where you gonna find a cave opening like that on any planet? We talkin' multi missle launcher. Eight horizontally aligned desintigrators of death in the form of disrupter beams. We talkin' ... hell, I don't even know what we talkin'.

Here's a curious plant-like item I found sticking out of an apparent triangular shaped hole. I've shown it in two wavelengths for comparison, and closeup. This is one of the strangest items I have found. It led me to believe that the [spherules] found, mostly by Opportunity, might have a life basis of some kind. It's just speculation. However, I have a gut feeling that this thing is or was living, whatever "it" is. Note the curious spherule arrangement adjacent. There are more of these objects, but they're rare in these photos. NASA didn't screen out or blur everything, but I do have clear examples of where they manipulated photos. They appeared to try and hide certain objects, some of which I was collecting. I won't speculate why, as there could be a number of motives. I actually quit collecting, in large part because I was afraid they might be using amateur data to see what people were discovering, so they could remove those items. Once all the data rolls in and is made public, I plan to resume my studies. If you spend a lot of time studying these photos, you will get some things wrong, in perspective, but some things you'll notice repeat over and over and you realize that you're onto something that doesn't seem purely mineral.

I've dubbed this item "six stones," because of the unusual configuration of six of the spherules in two distinct rows directly adjacent.

It's McDonalds fly thru

Well, scare-crow, that looks like some of that fine marsotee cactus that the space brothers traded me a WII for. Good stuff!

maybe it could be a place to check out for teh next mission to mars