The Weird Case of the Mermaid

The year is 2015. The month, May. The rover Curiosity takes a series of snapshots in a region on Mars called “Marias Pass”.

As usual, we see rocks, big and small, and larger rock formations surrounded by a sandy brown soil.

So I get on with the job of analyzing the images by focusing in some areas “of interest”. After three years of doing that, in the end you benefit from a kind of rapid eye that seems to know where the “anomalies” will be found, hiding sometimes between rocks, sometimes in plain view for anyone to see who is willing to patiently work on these NASA images.

And there it was.

The region is called “Marias Pass”. As soon as my eye caught this “anomaly”, I knew I had just found something extraordinary.

No need to accomplish a miracle here. You just need to bring the area in focus, make the image larger.

And you get that.

I literally shook my head. This time, I said to myself, I am most definitely hallucinating. How in the world is it possible that there would be a “being”, with a fish-tail, naked shoulders, wearing what looks like black arm-long gloves, white hair delicately brought back behind her head, holding on to the rock on top of which seems to be flowing a small fountain-like jet of water?

On Mars? Where NASA assures us they have found no signs of life whatsoever? On Mars? Where water is (still) not supposed to be flowing so freely? On Mars? Where non-protected human blood would boil (again, according to the truth according to NASA)?

Damn! A mermaid on Mars?

A comments section “moderator” rapidly brought me back to Earth when, after not even spending 10 seconds looking at the same image, offered the ignominous explanation that this was “obviously” a rock discoloration, “nothing more”. Note here that officials seem to have outgrown the usual explanations of “swamp gas” for anything that is “not normal”.

I hallucinate; you hallucinate; we all hallucinate. Because NASA, scientists, governments and the media paid by them say so. Period.

Look again at the first image of the rocky area where I have found this “anomaly”. I have changed nothing. What you see here is the same thing that we can see on the OFFICIAL NASA IMAGE uploaded by NASA on the official NASA webpage.

Mermaids, “a creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish” (Wikipedia) have a long history in human affairs.

Now, following this discovery, either mermaids also have a long history in Martian affairs, or some people at NASA are having the time of their lives. But think about it: Why a national space agency, which must make public (some) images taken by its rovers (by rule, by law and to assure a constant budgetary growth), would “plant” such anomalies on its own photos?

That makes as much sense as the guy who told me that this was “obviously a rock discoloration”.

Official NASA image HERE.

Oh, and there’s also a video of mine.