The Mysterious Rocks on Mars That Could Be Something Else Entirely | Perseverance Part 6 

That cat rock looks literally nothing like a cat lmao

I can vividly remember thinking Mars had "canals" on it until 1976 when the Viking missions landed and took close up pictures of the surface. As a kid, the blurry photographs from Mariner 4 were always "inconclusive" in my childlike mind, LOL.

There has been up to 9 rovers sent to Mars by 3 different countries, about half crashed. Although the distances between them is large, is not inconceivable that one of the successful rovers would come across debris.

Imagine the aliens finding our debris and decommissioned rovers on Mars and thinking it was an ancient Martian civilisation

For the longest time, I had been seeing Astrum on my feed and avoiding it because I thought it was one of those popular, pseudoscience channels like Riiiddle and Destiny. But after watching several videos, I see the videos are actually well-researched and the production team puts in a lot of effort to separate fact from fiction. Sorry for snubbing you guys all this time lol

“I don’t think anyone truly believes…” I’m gonna have to stop you there, Chief.

Schiaparelli never said that he saw "canals," as in artificial waterways which would suggest an origin of manufacture by intelligent beings. That was Percival Lowell's take on his work. Schiaparelli called them "canali" which means "channels" in Italian. This is perfectly apt for any sort of water-carrying structure, including rivers, creeks and other perfectly natural items.

Mars: One small littering for a man, one giant landfill for mankind.

Re: Speakly - Speak of speaking, not only your content is excellent, your narration is, too. It is rare to encounter on YT so clearly enunciated, pleasantly sounding narration as yours.

the mars face never surprised me, rocks make weird shapes and humans are designed to look for human faces everywhere, i always figured it wouldn't look like a face from any other angle

A genuine, and heartfelt, thank you for saying _“while”_ instead of _“whilst”_

I am glad you survived making that climate video.

I can’t believe we’re littering even on Mars.

The comments complaining that people are already "littering" Mars are bizarre. What does it matter if there is a small amount of debris when these machines are the only way for us to learn about Mars in depth and for any of us to hope to get a sense of the planets desolation? One day Mars will be ripped apart by the sun itself, so let's allow ourselves a bit of "littering" if it means we can learn something about it before it is gone. Heck, the debris will be buried under the sands eons before there are tourists enjoying the Martian national parks. Stop hating on your own species so much. It is regressive.

What I am waiting for is a rover that can explore the lava tubes on Mars. Who knows what it might find?

4:30 it is a lot less face-like when you consider that the small black dots don't represent shadows or holes, but missing data. The backs dot the loos like a nostril is just missing data.

He didn't see canals, he saw "canali" - Italian for channels. Which got mistranslated to canals, which if course must've been constructed by martians.

A lot of missions have failed there. Could be any one of the probes that went missing or silent as they approached the planet or attempted to land.

Short version. Debris from Perseverence's landing mechanisms.

Alex, you don't need the "shocking title" to get our attention, even if I understand that this kind of title will give you more views. It would be interesting for all of us, that you made a video about Soviet Union Mars landing program, because a lot of people don't know the fact that first successful soft landing on Mars was a Soviet Union probe Mars 3 at 1971. One day hopefully, "Martian archeologists" will find this probe, and put it in "Martian museum". MRO already has taken a photos that suggest a possible location of this probe.

Face on Mars. I remember back in the day, seeing a tabloid with the picture of the "face" on the cover. They had actually cut out part of the picture and replaced it with an image of an actual face, in gray, to match the rest of the image ... you could even see the outline of the join of the two images. The headline was something like "Face on Mars warns Earth to stay away!" or something like that. Talk about silly!! That said, I was a bit surprised find Lowell's theories about what Schiaparelli called "canali" attributed to Schiaparelli here. As pointed out by others below.

I would love for them to drive past the crash site of the sky crane, that would be super cool to see

We've littered the face of Mars even without setting foot there. That's got to be some kind of record...

Kind of sucks to learn that our species is now littering on two globes, actually it's more I suppose. Keep up the great work, love your videos.

Hello new subs here. Thanks for the information. God bless

"Cats on Mars" is an excellent song from cowboy bebop

So funny that I should be listening to Art Bell (RIP) & he has been giving Raspberrys, to Richard Hoagland, about the rocks on Mars‼️😂

Brilliant video. Love your voice, script and logo.

It's Not Just the Face On Mars. But the Pyramid and other building COMPLEXES SURROUNDING the face.

3:18 The cat has a collar, meaning there is human-like life there too. What a finding!

Of course a cat made it to Mars first! Tom Sisson

Those weekly Mars Guy updates are always fun.

I remember the face vividly, and how the xfiles used it in one of their episodes

In the late 80s/early 90s I was attending Santa Monica College. The astronomy course professor arranged a field trip to JPL. That field trip was awesome! The class was allowed to view the mars photos in a room that was chalked full of materials. After the students viewed the material and listened to the presentation, the presenter/specialist concluded by saying, "so as you can see the features are completely natural. The entire class erupted in laughter. I went on to a degree in archaeology. The details of the "face" on mars were never of real interest to me. Instead, it is the structure (geologically and archaeologically speaking) that those details are an assumed component, that are of interest. Thank you for the great videos.

I always thought the face on mars was a trick of light and shadow... so if you got the photo at the right local time, you'd get the face. EDIT: Might need the right time of year as well, like Stonehenge.

*CORRECTION*: Schiaparelli thought he saw "canali" on Mars. The Italian word "canali" means "channels" in English NOT "canals". Schiaparelli thought he saw channels carved by water, not structures built by people (or creatures). The English speakers reading Schiaparelli's findings back in the day, BLUNDERED the translation leading to misconceptions and bad science that actually continues to some extent today. Even in this video, its claimed that Schiaparelli saw "canals" on Mars. There is utter irony in the advertising at the end of the video.

Occam's razor is important. It's just a picture of a mountain taken at a specific time, is much more likely than it's a perfect image of a human face. Human space junk is more likely than alien artifact. Of course, if we can eliminate all simple explanations more interesting explanations should also be considered.

I would be cool if they found a real statue on Mars, from an ancient civilization. Until then, I look forward to the other discoveries of the planet.

So interesting about pareidolia. It is so true that people will see what is actually not there and convince their own brain and others for the sake of not spending millions for absolutely nothing.

Relax, everything is under control. EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL!

Months worth of footage and interesting images all throughout and here I am halfway through the video and I've only seen a few frames from the mission. Moving on.

it is fitting that the video sponsor was a language app, as canali in Italian doesn't mean what we think of as canals. (I think it means channels) as I understand it, that confusion of meanings is what led to the whole "Mars Attacks" body of imaginative speculation.

3:47 Looks more like a tortoise to me, with the giant rock above being the shell.

I'd forgotten about this channel because it never shows notification for new videos. I've check and everything is subbed and all notification clicked.

Interesting. Thanks.

Well, the title ain’t wrong! We trolled ourselves! 😂

The picture of the Arctic Lemming fascinated me...

4:30 “what do you think?” - I think that we're primed “in hardware” toward parsing faces in a visual scene.

Great video - thank you ❤

00:20 So, the first observer of them didn't call them canals. It was Giovanni Shiaparelli but he called them canali, or channels translated from Italian to English properly, and that was mistranslated later and turned into canals.

I see zombies everywhere in society. Is that pareidolia?

Bit sad that human litter and rubbish has even managed to spread to another planet! Great video thanks!

Anyone know the amazing music used in this video? Particularly at the beginning 👀

I know its slightly out of your wheelhouse maybe but, can you please do a video on presession and the current claims around the pyramids and Gobekli Tepe?

Excellent. A great summary with a different slant

This is great!

12:00 That is the great strength of the scientific method. When used properly it take bias into account..

The pyramids next to the face in Sydonia are not imagined and neither are their arrangement to mirror G8za and the belt of Orion

Schiaparelli never claimed to have seen 'canals'. He saw what he thought were natural channels, and the American media and academia misinterpreted (perhaps deliberately for sensationalism) the direct translation of 'channel' in Italian, 'canale' to mean 'canal', and the story blew up. It was simply a linguistic misunderstanding, deliberate or otherwise.

Anyone know the background soundtrack in the start/intro? Would appreciate answer🙌

So even in mars we’re littering 🙄

What about that rock just balancing on the other rock to the left of the snake? Visible in the wide shot. I think that's more interesting.

Before watching the vid I was already guessing debris from some other human landing. Interesting that it's Perseverance's OWN landing debris!

I was watching "Why Files" and I remember that NASA/JPL doctored the photos of the face once the public pressured NASA to go back and get closer images. Lan Flemming who was a NASA contractor went over the photo and found a bunch of discrepancies that show it was manipulated from the original. I'm still also fascinated with the D&M pyramid on Mars and would love a video on that as well.

You know considering how easy it was for NASA to share that "face on Mars" image, it's honestly a wonder why people believe they would "hush up" about alien lifeforms or discoveries of extra-terrestrial things. That was as crazy as it could get, something that "appears to be a replica of an ancient civilization". I mean come on.

imagine what could we discover on mars once humans land on it.

the face reminded me of han solo trapped in the ice block thing (ya know, in the floating city with lando and Vader etc.. )

another incredible video. thanks astrum.

I love your soundtrack

It's amazing that I did not learning anything new from this video:)

I feel Mission to Mars best explained what the face is 😂

That app would be good for English speaking visitors understanding our Australian 🤣🤣

There was a great add on TV it was for Smash, Potato's in a bag. It had the consistency of milk and tasted like sand. The add had two robots that played characters on Mars who loved the Smash from earth. They should used the add to depict the Mars rover.🤖🥔🤖

they see an oddly shaped rock "INTELLIGENT DESIIIIIIIGN" .. they see an entire intelligently designed universe " meh coincidence "

Gotta love that our earliest interplanetary endeavors amount to littering. Humans gonna human.

Mars has a land area approximately the size of Earth, As Earth is two thirds covered by water. There have been 10 successful landings on Mars - Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder and Sojourner Rover, Spirit Rover, Opportunity Rover, Phoenix lander, Curiosity Rover, Insight lander, Perserverance Rover and Ingenuity drone, and the Chinese lander and Rover, mounting to 13 spacecraft. And several failed landings - Mars 2, Mars 3, Mars 6, Mars Polar Lander, Beagle lander and the Schrapelli lander, making 19 spacecraft in all. This is so, so tiny compared with the total surface area of Mars, that if one were to land on Mars at a random location, it would probably take a very long time indeed, MSN’s, many years, before you stumbled on a spacecraft from Earth.

I'm sure if we could somehow transport to Mars a drilling rig, (it's crew as well) not unlike an oil driller, we could take copious core samples from 6,000 ft deep & find something that either was alive at some point in Mars' history, or still is...alive. I'm curious to see if there's a subterranean cache of frozen water, or even petroleum of some sort. "Drill baby, DRILL!" -#45

So that’s what happened to my bottle rocket when I was young.😂

Its probably the vehicle that brought Ed March and his C-90 to Mars.

3:33 Definetly cat from Flapjack

Schiaparelli did not see canals; he saw "canali". The correct translation of canali is channels which are natural constructions while canals are not. It was an incorrect translation into English that started the rumor that canals had been spotted on Mars.

We leave a mess wherever we go.

There is wreckage, that is British Mars probe Beagle Two. In fact a lot of probes have crashed on Mars, because it's very difficult to land on and that includes a NASA probe that crashed, because by the navigational computer, being given the wrong calculations. So pieces of the rover's landing gear is not surprising. Love your joke about a litter patrol. 😁 But seriously we are litterers, even the Moon and the bottom of the oceans have been contaminated. The trouble with the human brain, is that it likes to see patterns. 😁

If we don't get there is pretty difficult to say what it is or not...they never investigate anything so our trust cant be at 100%

Achievement Unlocked: Dump garbage on other planet.

MY PAREIDOLIAC MOMENT: 9:23 Top of the screen, in the middle. A nugget. Gold! GOLD! We've struck gold. We're rich, lads!

🍺The rover should have had a beer can launcher. Let's make Mars truly human territory by having a beer can along side the road. 😂

Dude we already stumble over our own trash on Mars

Wait, wait, wait... what does Astrum think Mars' CANYONS are, and how were they formed?

Clickity baiting titles will LOSE me. Same for the pictures.

"They called the bright material "bright material" and called it a day" 😂😂😂 I guess the more creative folks were off that day 😅

Why doesnt the thrust of the skycrane damage the sensitive equipment on the rover?

It is said that cat at the beginning of the thumbnail of the video still trying to get out of that rock to this day

People like to think straight lines are always man made and the other common signs that are always assumed to be man made...I like to remind them that for example straight lines do exist naturally...they are just not commonly naturally formed...but anything and absolutely everything is not just possible but already exists...Ive been trying to think a bit differently recently...when I come across something common I don't immediately assume the common answer I take a moment take in information and form answers etc from there...sometimes gaining new perspective that I wouldn't have achieved any other way if any of that made any sense at all...I try to use the idea universally and wording it properly is not easy lol...

Aliens exploring Mars will be right to say that our debris were left there by some alien race. However, we cannot say the same about those debris, because they're ours!

Oh sure, there's no face on Mars, and Lee Harvey Oswald managed to put 3 shots from three different angels in JFK.

I actually got this video 7seconds after posting. That’s the first time I’ve ever been this early to a video ever. Great video as always, keep up the great work.

1:58 I disagree that discovery of life (either dead or alive) on Mars alone would "vastly increase" probability that life exists outside our solar system. Life could have been exchanged between Mars and Earth via fragments from asteroid impacts. But this does not mean that it must work interstellar, because the speed of fragments that can escape the gravity of a planet is probably not sufficient to overcome the gravity of the star, and also because extremophile life forms can probably not survive infinitely extreme conditions. So, only if the life on Mars had it's own abiogenese, and only if we are technologically able to determine that at all, it could change the probability around other stars.

Our eyes don't play tricks at us, it is the brain

Not a single human being on Mars and we've already started polluting it. This is why humanity needs to be marooned on this rock. The Alcatraz of the universe. There's a purpose to it.