It was enough to tickle the imagination of Internet users who have fun seeing the work of aliens.
Still, nothing to do with evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. According to several scientists and specialized media, it would only be a landslide or a natural fracture in the rock, perhaps following an earthquake, specifies for example Futura Sciences. It is also difficult to assess the size of this “door”: “it might as well be only a few centimeters”, adds the website.
This is not the first time that a photo taken on Mars has ignited the web. In a snapshot, taken by the Perseverance rover in April 2021, some had seen the silhouette of a man lying on a rock in the middle of the sand. It was actually an optical illusion. This phenomenon, called pareidolia, means that our eyes have played tricks on us.
