NASA released an image taken on Mars of a crater that looks like an alien head. The name that the agency chose for the image was "Chryse Alien Head." If this was any other agency it could be taken as a joke, but as the subject of many conspiracy theories, NASA opened a huge can of worms by choosing that name for the image.
The "Chryse Alien Head" image was originally posted by NASA in 2005.
Chryse Alien Head
NASA's image was taken in late January 2004 by the Mars Global Surveyor using the Mars Orbiter Camera in the Chryse Planitia. The agency notes that the image was taken near the landing site of the Viking 1 mission from 1975. In the description, NASA says that the crater resembles a bug-eyed head.
NASA states that the depressions that resemble eyes at the north part of the crater were likely formed by wind or water erosion. The water erosion occurred during floods in the past that swept across the western Chryse Planitia from Maja Valles.
Wind erosion occurred recently, which caused the crater to have this shape. The Chryse Alien Head crater is 164 yards long, and it is thought to have been caused by an asteroid impact.
Newfound Attention Among UFO Hunters
The Chryse Alien Head image received attention when it was posted by UFO hunter Scott C. Waring as a new discovery. In a post on the website UFO Sighting Daily, Waring says that he found some new information on NASA's website pointing to the picture from 2005.
He showed that NASA may have posted the image 13 years ago, but it didn't receive any attention despite the interesting name given to the image. Waring goes on the claim that NASA named the image this way because they spotted an alien on Mars.
Waring provided the measurements of the "alien head." He showed that the two eyes of the "alien head" are both over 250 meters long, and said that both of the "eyes" have the same width and size.
NASA hasn't released a statement on the origin of the name. Unless NASA says that alien life has been discovered on a different planet, it is safe to say that a 13-year-old photo doesn't prove that NASA has proof of an alien that it is withholding from the public.
Previously it was discovered that an ancient ocean appeared on Mars at the same time as its volcanic system called Tharsis.
