Is That a Truth? Space Stories That Stormed the Imaginations of the People but are Fake. (PART 3)

Is That a Truth? Space Stories That Stormed the Imaginations of the People but are Fake. (PART 3)
The popularity of social media has skyrocketed in the last ten years. Because of its growing popularity, everyone knows about aliens, UFOs, Mars probes, exoplanets, interplanetary objects, and black holes. The negative aspect of social media is that it might lead to individuals trusting false sources of information. In the third part of the series, "Is that a truth?", we will give you 3 more space stories that took the imagination of people by storm but actually, the stories were fake. Let us start right now.

#7. Face on the Mars.

Because of Elon Musk, Mars remains the trending topic on social media. Elon Musk, an American innovator and entrepreneur, has a plan to colonize Mars by 2050. We have created a video on Elon Musk's mission to Mars. If you want to know more about the topic, please click the link on top of the screen.

Much before Elon Musk's mission Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft took some pictures of the Martian surface. After the pictures went public, some space enthusiasts pointed out a peculiar human-face-looking figure on the surface of mars. Immediately it took the imagination of the people by storm. Some of them came up with stories that there was life on Mars and aliens have visited Mars in the past.

Experts in NASA cleared all the misconceptions regarding the martian human face. Experts said the human-face-looking figure is just a pile of rocks casting shadows and giving a resemblance to a human face.

in 1998 and 2001 NASA shared high-resolution images of the same spot which was resembling a human-like face. The images were taken by Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Global Surveyor. The new images confirmed that the anomaly is a normal martian dune looking like a human face because of light and shadow effects.

#8. Iapetus, an alien death star.
Star Wars fans must me knowing about the 2016 movie "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story". In that movie, there was an alien death star with a crater on its surface. The death star had a super-laser that tends to destroy planets with its powerful laser.
Iapetus is one of the moons of Saturn, and surprisingly enough, Iapetus resembles the death star portrayed in the movie "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story".
in May 2016, the story got insane. "Daily Mail" published an article that mentioned the Saturnian moon Iapetus as a deadly artificial object created by aliens. The article published a picture of Iapetus taken by the Cassini spacecraft that showed a straight line over the surface of the Iapetus.
This misconception was soon debunked when the Cassini spacecraft took pictures of Iapetus from a different angle. The line was nothing else but a mountain ridge.
The myth also got auto-debunked because the Cassini spacecraft was not blown away by Iapetus' alien technology even though it went very close to it.

#9. Saturn's Hexagon is Alien stuff.
In the early 1980s, Voyager 1 passed by Saturn and spotted a six-sided cloud pattern above its north pole. The hexagon pattern is so large that it can hold up to 4 earth-like structures within it. Immediately it caused a furor among scientists and science enthusiasts because geometrical figures are very uncommon in nature and space.
Like always, some people came up with strange theories about the hexagonal shape and the most common among them was that it is a sort of alien technology. Some even went a step further by saying that the hexagon is a gateway to hell.
In reality, the hexagon consists of a great storm in the center which is about 20000 miles in diameter. How this pattern is formed is still a mystery.
A recent computer simulation conducted by the New Mexico Institute of mining and technology has found that the hexagonal pattern appears because of Saturnian air currents flowing in a curved path.