If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much are two pictures worth, especially if they show an odd-looking, allegedly descending light heading to the surface of Mars?
These are real pictures, taken by the Curiosity rover — some reports say it took place on June 23, but according to information on the raw Jet Propulsion Laboratory images, it was June 20.
In the first JPL full resolution image, a bright light appears above some mountains (taken by the rover’s Navcam Right camera). Thirty-one seconds later, the rover’s Navcam Left camera snapped an image of the light seemingly closer to the Martian surface.
Watch this short video showing both images of the alleged light above Mars.
“In the thousands of images we’ve received from Curiosity, we see ones with bright spots nearly every week,” Maki said in a NASA statement. “These can be caused by cosmic-ray hits or sunlight glinting from rock surfaces, as the most likely explanations.”
