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What's in there? Scientists fascinated after NASA orbiter photographs open crater leading into underground cavern on Mars  The Daily Mail.  Excerpts:

Nasa scientists are baffled as to what - or maybe even who? - created this unusual hole on the surface of Mars. The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of the Red Planet's Pavonis Mons volcano.  It appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated to the right of the opening.

Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life.

These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers. The images were taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars.

NASA Viking Found Alien Life on Mars Back in 1976 Says, Scientist

Nice.  UFO Blogger.  Excerpts:

..  A new study exposed the fact that NASA had discovered the alien life on Mars — several decades ago. A team of scientists claim one of the early Mars lander missions actually found life, but the data was misinterpreted at the time.



"They say they found bacteria when searching data collected 30 years ago by NASA's Viking mars robot. Researchers say that what scientists thought was simple geology is actual bacterial activity." (Therefore, evidently, easily dismissed..)


The Viking mission was the first to show conclusive evidence of water on Mars, but they also looked for evidence of life in soil samples.

More background on the video at the link..  It took NASA 36 years to either "re-interpret" data or tell us about it?  NASA kind-of admitted weakness regarding their data analysis, didn't they? Still, this wouldn't be NASA's most ridiculous moment, so, maybe.. 

Also:  Did Humans Come From Mars?