Third Reich on Mars? Not quite. The Curiosity Rover didn’t find a Nazi helmet on the planet, despite social media claims.
. We couldn’t find the image in the Facebook post in that collection, but a NASA spokesperson said it looks as if it could be from the rover.suggesting that lakes were around for much longer than expected on one Martian mountain Curiosity has been climbing since 2014. But they haven’t identified any helmets.
But seeing what looks like a helmet, or another recognizable item in the rocks, isn’t unusual. NASA has a page dedicated to such, what it calls,"space oddities." "This happens because our brains often try to see shapes that are familiar, something we can relate to,"
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