Photos of Monoliths on mars.
There actually seems to be 3 structures in a pyramid shape. Scientists at the university, who captured the image from a powerful camera on board an orbiting satellite, insist that the structure is a normal, if striking, natural phenomenon. But sci-fi fans are said to be drawing parallels with the mysterious monoliths used to mark a change in human evolution in Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey . The latest image was taken as part of the University of Arizona's HiRise (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) project. The camera is able to take high-resolution images of Mars's surface from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In Kubrick's adaptation of Arthur C Clarke's novel, the origins of the monoliths are never fully explained. The University of Arizona has no such problems with their structure. Alfred McEwen, professor of planetary science at the university and HiRise's principal investigator, said: ...