Flying ants and UFOs on Mars? Dust on the Perseverance rover’s lens sparks wild conspiracy theories of alien life and cover-ups.

Flying ants and UFOs on Mars - the dust on the lens of the Perseverance rover has spawned many conspiracy theories

On November 27, at an interval of 11 minutes, the Mars rover’s navigation camera took two pH๏τos. Each image features an unidentified black flying object. Reddit users immediately began to theorize that Perseverance had captured a UFO on Mars. There were even more absurd hypotheses. For example, that the unidentified object is a flying ant.

Strange UFO PH๏τographed By Mars Rover | iHeart

Unfortunately or fortunately, there were no UFOs in wide view on Mars. Unidentified flying object on the Red Planet turned out to be a speck, which has got on the lens of the rover’s camera. About this reported Justin Maki (Justin Maki) from NASA. Specialist in imaging noted that all sensors are subject to this problem, but artifacts are often visible only in the case of filming the sky.

Almost two months ago, the rover Curiosity, which also roams the expanse of Mars, sent a picture (above) with a similar defect. Space agency specialists are aware of the problem, so the pH๏τos often go through an editing process before publication, but this time something went wrong.

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