UFO hunter claims to have spotted an abandoned shoe on Mars – AOL News
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Aug 25th 2016 4:25PM
According to alien hunters, over the years, Mars has proven itself to be overflowing with familiar objects ranging from great works of art to kitchen utensils, and pretty much everything else in between.
Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily recently spotted yet another commonplace item on our neighboring planet –- a single shoe, abandoned near one of the Red Planet’s crater.
“While looking through some Mars rover photos, I found a lone shoe on the edge of the crater,’ said Waring in a blog post.
He believes the find is particularly significant.
“How many times on a battle field or a catastrophic event have we seen photos in the newspaper of the shoes of victims…alone…evidence of how hard they were hit, how fast they were taken from us?” he continued. “Well this is such evidence.”
Now, the only question that remains is, did said shoe belong to alien Cinderella, or the Martian King?
Our world may never know.
Check out these 11 bizarre things the Mars Orbiter has spotted:
1. Water may (sometimes) flow
The MRO has provided the most convincing evidence yet that small amounts of extremely salty liquid water may still flow on the surface of Mars.Â
The orbiter found that some ice may melt as the red planet warms during particular seasons, allowing the liquid to run down hills, creating streaks on the Martian surface.
Photo courtesy:Â IMAGE: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZON
2. Other spacecraft on the planet
The MRO has also kept an eye on other spacecraft that are exploring Mars from the surface.
The orbiter has snapped photos of the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers from its post above the planet. The MRO even caught sight of Curiosity as it descended to its landing spot via parachute.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
3. Potential landing sites for new missions
The MRO has also scouted out new landing sites for other missions to Mars. Most recently, scientists have used the spacecraft’s data to map out possible landing targets for a human mission to Mars.
Photo courtesy: JPL
4. Fresh craters
The MRO has also treated scientists to views of relatively fresh craters on Mars.Â
One crater — which appeared in photos in 2010 — was not in images taken in 2008, meaning that whatever impact created the crater happened in between those years.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
5. A possible supervolcano
Thanks to data beamed back to Earth from the MRO, scientists now think that there might be a supervolcano lurking beneath the surface of a very old crater on Mars’ surface.
“On Mars, young volcanoes have a very distinctive appearance that allows us to identify them,” scientist Joseph Michalski, said in a statement in 2013.Â
“The longstanding question has been what ancient volcanoes on Mars look like. Perhaps they look like this one,” he said.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL/GODDARD (LEFT) AND ESA (RIGHT)
6. A dust devil spotted
The MRO also captured an incredible image of a 12-mile-high dust devil swirling on the red planet in 2012.Â
While the Martian atmosphere is thinner than Earth’s, wind can still whip up dust storms and dust devils on the planet, according to NASA.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
7. Martian sand dunes
The MRO has also snapped photos of fields of sand dunes on Mars, which change shape according to which way the wind blows from season to season.
At the moment, the Curiosity rover is exploring some of these martian sand dunes for the first time, investigating the sand of the red planet from close range.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
8. An avalanche
One particularly incredible photo taken in August 2015 shows an avalanche of frost falling off a scarp. The orbiter managed to catch the avalanche at the exact moment the frost was falling.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
9. Phobos and Deimos
The MRO doesn’t only have eyes for Mars.Â
The spacecraft has also taken some stunning photos of the red planet’s moons, Phobos and Deimos, giving people on Earth a sense of the strange color of the oddly shaped moons.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA
9. Phobos and Deimos
The MRO doesn’t only have eyes for Mars.Â
The spacecraft has also taken some stunning photos of the red planet’s moons, Phobos and Deimos, giving people on Earth a sense of the strange color of the oddly shaped moons.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA
10. A tumbling boulder
After 10 years in orbit, the MRO has definitely seen some weird stuff on the world’s surface.Â
One of those strange sights was the path left by an oddly shaped boulder rolling down a slope. The MRO caught some images of the tumbling rock in 2014, even spotting the area where it landed upright.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
11. Frozen carbon dioxide
The MRO’s imager also spotted gullies of frost on Martian plains, which look somewhat like the patterns deltas carve on the surface of Earth.
Photo courtesy:Â NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UA
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has clocked more than a decade of service at the Red Planet and has yielded scientific discoveries and magnificent views of a distant world. These images taken by MRO’s HiRISE camera are not in true color because they include infrared information in order to be optimized for geological science. For more info about MRO go to: http://www.nasa.gov/mro
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