I have found a Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image, taken by the context camera. Click here to see my full resolution cropped screen capture. This is clearly not artificial. It appears to be exposed bedrock on the interior rim of this large crater, dubbed Ramanathan,

At the top of this image.

Kevin: I am fairly certain those are actual pictures. Regardless, I don’t take the claims in the first seriously for many reasons:

1. It’s an old picture from Mars Global Surveyor, which did great work a quarter of a century ago but was not at the highest resolution.
2. The picture has clearly been doctored, in a manner to confirm the conclusions. When I adjust an image I always do it for the whole image, and not to make a uncertain theory more certain. I also always describe all changes. In this case Ramsey clearly changed the image to prove his point, in an unacceptable way, and made no mention of his changes.
3. No location for the image is provided. If you’re going to make such a claim you should allow others to easily check up on it. For example, what does more recent images show? And what does the original look like? As shown by the second link, the original picture looks nothing like the doctored one.

This kind of stupidity gets pushed all the time. I wish people would stop being so credulous.

And finally, reason number 4, the most important. If any Mars orbital picture had been detected any artificial structures suggesting alien life, it would be blasted loudly by the scientists involved. Such a discovery would be maybe the most important in the history of science. Why would any scientist keep it secret? The payoff for them in fame and glory would be priceless.

https://x.com/chrisramsay52/status/1885360546347672021

https://x.com/Radios4Freedom/status/1885548698064535956

Actual pictures or fakes?