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[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Hmm I wonder if maybe there was any mars mission in that area which may have featured a similar saucer shaped object as part of one of its landing stages… seems like something that someone who was writing such an article or making such a video might check if they weren’t a schizo and/or just interested in producing clickbait

[–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How do you explain the trail made into the soil when NASA's pods land vertically? Could be a meteorite hitting the ground at a low angle.

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Just because the payload lands vertically doesn't mean every component of every landing stage does as well. The opposite really; you wouldn't any jettisoned component coming down anywhere near the payload

[–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Still way too horizontal of a pattern to be that even though I'm no ballistics expert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_landing#/media/File:Opportunity_Heat_Shield.jpg