Great, NASA takes a claimed dragon-shaped photo on the surface of Mars

Suara.com – Imagination and human creativity combined with photographs of the surface of Mars can actually be interesting objects. So, not surprisingly, the fruit of this imagination seems to show a picture of the carpet, the Star Trek logo for Pac-Man that lay on the surface of the Red Planet.

But, that’s only a small part. This time, the team behind the HiRise camera mounted on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured a photo of a ‘dragon’ on the surface of the planet Mars.

It was very interesting, the photo of the earth of Mars that resembles a dragon distributed last weekend was included in the HiRise Image of the Day category.

“We rotated a photo of this material in brightly colored blocks in the southwest of the Melas Chasma because from this point of view, it resembles a legendary Chinese dragon,” the HiRise team tweeted on their official Twitter account. Cnet, Wednesday (04/15/2020).

In order not to become a hoax, HiRise’s official website, operated by researchers at the University of Arizona, offers a brief explanation of the topography of Mars captured by the sophisticated camera.

“Some brightly colored deposits are only visible in the valleys, indicating that they are deposits or are exposed by erosion,” they said.

The deposit is Melas Chasma, which is part of the Valles Marineri canyon system located on the Martian equator.

In an official statement released by NASA in 2017, Melas Chasma was named as a location that has evidence of movement of water and wind.

While the HiRise camera that captures some interesting objects on Mars first took a photo of Melas Chasma on July 4, 2007 from an altitude of 258 km above the surface of Mars.