Mid-April.

A paper signed by a research institute and published in the latest issue of the journal Future.

Mysterious geological formations discovered on Mars!

The earthquake crack mysteriously disappeared overnight!

As soon as this paper was published, it immediately attracted widespread attention from the international community.

Mars has long been understood to be a dead desert planet with no intact ecosystem and no intense geological activity. Some are just raging red sands and rugged landscapes that have been eroded by dust storms for billions of years in paleogeological periods.

However, this discovery undoubtedly subverts people's stereotypes of the planet.

Not only is there suspected of relatively new geological activity on Mars, but there may even be special geological phenomena that are not available on Earth!

No one on Earth, at least, had ever heard of an earthquake crack that had formed and could be repaired overnight as if nothing had happened.

on a well-known international astronomy enthusiast forum.

As early as the first day of the paper's publication, someone translated it into English and reprinted it here, and it quickly provoked a discussion on the scale of the slaughter.

“WTF？ Is the geological formation of Mars still active? Doesn't that mean that it is actually possible to repair the Martian magnetic field and modify the Martian atmosphere? ”

"Yes, it's possible, it's just that the probability is infinitely closer to zero. Actually, I'm more curious about how the crack disappeared, and although the picture looks strange, it doesn't look like P. ”

"Could it be an alien?"

"Haha, I don't rule out this possibility! Maybe that rift is actually a passage to Martian civilization? ”

"You're a bit ...... brain"

"I remembered a video I've seen somewhere before, where a Martian walks in front of Curiosity with a painting in hand...... Maybe what we have always known about Mars is what the people who live there want us to see. ”

"I think it's a little more likely than the unreliable view of the Martians."

The buzz is not only on amateur forums, but also on Facebook and Twitter, but to a lesser extent.

Combined with the reports about extraterrestrial civilizations that flooded the media in the early years, many people are speculating whether the seismic crack is actually a trace left by aliens.

This speculation, while unfounded, was surprisingly popular.

In light of the widespread public interest in the matter, BBC reporters quickly approached NASA's high-resolution imaging science laboratory.

As another "Martian authoritative organization" in the world in addition to the China Manned Landing Office, although their conditions are still a little inferior to the former who have already sent scientific researchers to Mars, their strength in theoretical research should not be underestimated.

"We're now interviewing Professor Chrmiton, who graduated from MIT with a degree in planetary geology and is currently working at NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Laboratory......

Turning the camera on Professor Camiton, who was sitting in a chair, the young reporter politely continued.

"Hello Professor Colmiton, as an expert in the field of planetary geology, what do you think this seismic structure would mean if it existed?"

In response to a question from a BBC reporter, Professor Camiton pondered for a while before speaking.

"That's an interesting question."

"In fact, around April '19, our InSight rover observed a weak seismic signal on Mars, but the signal was so weak that we could not understand the internal structure of Mars through it, or even determine whether the signal was reliable."

"If the special geological formation discovered by the Huaguo Manned Landing Office is really formed in the last hundreds of thousands of years, as they say, it will undoubtedly be an unprecedented discovery, and it will even refresh our understanding of Mars."

Astutely grasping the key message that Professor Chrmiton had revealed from his words, the young reporter immediately asked, "You mean, this discovery is very important?" ”

"There's no doubt about it."

Reporter: "But there is still a point of view that is...... Could it be possible that those images were faked? ”

"This possibility is not ruled out, but it is very, very small. In fact, I used to doubt it, but I quickly dispelled it. After all...... Now that they're all on Mars, they shouldn't be bored enough to joke about it," he said in a half-joking tone, and Professor Cholmiton pushed his eyes down on the bridge of his nose, paused for a moment, and continued, "Actually, in my opinion, what is more interesting than the appearance of that seismic structure is why it suddenly disappeared. ”

"Whether or not it was actually the work of Martians living underground, as rumored, or the ...... caused by some special bacteria with the ability to repair geological formations"

"I think that if we can figure out the cause of this, it will be much more important than figuring out how the earthquake crack formed!"

After the interview.

The edited interview video was released by the BBC in the form of a documentary, and was quickly uploaded to YouTube and other video sites, which sparked widespread discussion among netizens.

In fact, Professor Colmiton's view is also the mainstream view in the academic world.

That is, the seismic crack should have been real, formed by geological movements on Mars, and judging by the situation in that set of photos, it should not have been very long.

It's just that everyone can't figure out why such a long crack would disappear overnight.

As to the reasons for this phenomenon, the opinions of the academic community are, as expected, divided into two factions.

One group of thought is more conservative in its view that it may be that the thermal expansion and contraction caused by the huge temperature difference between day and night on Mars caused the fracture of the pore rock layer at the fault structure, which led to the inward repair shrinkage of the cracked surface.

In addition, the landfill action of the wind and sand fills in the subtle cracks on the surface of the fruit, so that the special fault structure looks as if it disappeared overnight.

On the other hand, there is a biogenetic view, which is that some iron-eating bacteria living on the hematite have eroded the hematite veins at the bottom of the fault structure.

In addition, drilling and sampling of water sources from the nearby Huaguo Mars research station triggered the tectonic collapse of the area, and then the phenomenon of disappearance of fault structures occurred.

However, no matter which side of the argument lacks a valid theoretical basis, neither of them can convince the other.

In addition to these logically barely self-justifying speculations, there are also some completely illogical speculations.

For example, about the Martians.

A small number of people believe that geological movements alone cannot explain this "mysterious" phenomenon, and can only attribute it to human factors.

And this could well be the work of the Martians!

Scholars who hold this view have even made further generalizations based on this view.

For example, after losing the protection of the atmosphere, the Martians moved from the surface to the underground, and the crack was not actually formed by an earthquake at all, but was actually the entrance and exit of the Martians to the surface.

In short, there are a variety of opinions.

In the face of this incredible phenomenon, everything seems to become confusing.

And at this moment, something unexpected happened to everyone......