Rat On Mars? Rodent Spotted In NASA Photo

Rat spotted on Mars?

The alleged Mar rat image (Photo: NASA)

While going through some photos taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, a man in Japan spotted a rat-like figure among the stones on the surface of the red planet in one of the photos.

Scott C. Waring, who wrote about the man's "Mars rat" sighting on the UFO Sightings Daily website, was convinced that it was an image of a furry small creature, resembling a rat or a squirrel.

"Note its lighter color upper and lower eyelids, its front leg and stomach," he wrote. "Looks similar to a squirrel camouflaged in the stones and sand by its colors."

He believes that NASA just kept this a secret from the public so America could get ahead from their studies on the planet "since they [NASA] don't want China or Russia to beat America to Mars."

However, scientists and other experts on the matter were not as convinced as Waring, saying that it is just another rock since the photo was taken on the "rocknest" site of the planet. One believed that Waring might just have this human quirk called, pareidolia, wherein our brain could create various images, making us see faces and other familiar figures in random similar shapes and texture of objects.

Unfortunately, experts believe that based on all data they gathered so far from the planet, the surface of Mars is just not capable of supporting life, not even for rodents.