{"id":5994,"date":"2025-03-25T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/similar-rock-formations-in-the-rover-photo\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:43:19","slug":"similar-rock-formations-in-the-rover-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/similar-rock-formations-in-the-rover-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Similar Rock Formations in the Rover Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Similar Rock Formations in Mars Rover Images<\/h3>\n<p>The Mars photo referenced in the AI upscaling post features several rock formations exhibiting the same bulbous and unusual shape as the supposed Tic Tac object. When viewed from different angles and zoom levels, these rocks appear much more naturally integrated into the larger rock formation. It&#8217;s important to remember that this imagery comes from the Mars Rover, which is capturing close-up images of rocks, rather than from a satellite. You can see the raw image here: <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/raw_images\/787528\/\">Mars Raw Image<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this raw photo, the Tic Tac is circled in the lower left, while a very similar formation that&#8217;s clearly part of the larger structure is circled in the upper right. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tic Tac and Similar Formation\" src=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/ioozc1us7eoe1.png?width=1321&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=b8e757e1866b783ff1249c5ffb74534b66b0a5fd\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the same rock formation captured from a slightly different angle and zoom level, just moments before the one in the initial post. In this view, the formation seems much less unnatural and integrates well with the surrounding rocks. The quality is decreased because of the wider zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/raw_images\/787296\/?site=msl\">Alternate Angle Image<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this image, the Tic Tac appears again in the bottom left corner, but it looks more like a natural part of the rock landscape this time: <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Different Angle and Zoom\" src=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/kyfqvc8o8eoe1.png?width=782&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=9bae0d2ef14e6e56dfb9c8410499f5e40b59e2c2\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this object is not hovering, and it definitely does not resemble a 20-foot-long fighter jet as suggested in the original thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSimilar Rock Formations in Mars Rover Images The Mars photo referenced in the AI upscaling post features several rock formations exhibiting the same bulbous and unusual shape as the supposed Tic Tac object. When viewed from different angles and zoom levels, these rocks appear much more naturally integrated into the larger rock formation. It&#8217;s important&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/similar-rock-formations-in-the-rover-photo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Similar Rock Formations in the Rover Photo&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}