{"id":3923385,"date":"2026-01-01T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasa-orbiter-finds-star-trek-starfleet-insignia-on-the-surface-of-mars\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:06:15","slug":"nasa-orbiter-finds-star-trek-starfleet-insignia-on-the-surface-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasa-orbiter-finds-star-trek-starfleet-insignia-on-the-surface-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA orbiter finds \u2018Star Trek\u2019 Starfleet insignia on the surface of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently completed its 60.000th trip around the Red Planet in May, and has been sending back incredible photos and valuable data since it was first launched in 2005.<\/p>\n

But it appears that someone may have already landed on Mars, and they left a calling card for the world to see, according to Futurism.com<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut its on board HiRise high-resolution camera has never seen anything like this before: now it\u2019s spotted a dune in the shape of the Starfleet insignia, from the fictional television show \u2018Star Trek.\u2019 Perhaps Captain Kirk got there before Elon Musk did after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo via NASA\/JPL<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What? Could it be? Has someone already boldly gone where no man has gone before? Not exactly:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This probably a coincidence caused by massive windstorms, lava, and other natural forces forming the Martian landscape \u2014 because the alternative is that one of those wacky \u201cStar Trek\u201d time travel plots actually happened, which would be awful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The NASA has discovered\u00a0a dune in the shape of Starfleet -the famous logo from Star Trek on Mars,the MRO HiRISE camera,said\u201cEnterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous log,You\u2019d be right, but it\u2019s only a coincidence pic.twitter.com\/feZub0IpO0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SURPRISING WORLD (@GowthamThota7) June 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ross Beyer, Principal Investigator with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, explained the bizarre<\/a> \u201cStar Trek\u201d figure the Mars Orbiter photographed:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLong ago, there were large crescent-shaped (barchan) dunes that moved across this area, and at some point, there was an eruption. The lava flowed out over the plain and around the dunes, but not over them. The lava solidified, but these dunes still stuck up like islands.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo: and you\u2019d be right, but it\u2019s only a coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Despite that coincidence, actor William Shatner, who starred in the groundbreaking TV series, couldn\u2019t resist trolling the \u201cStar Wars\u201d franchise:<\/p>\n

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Hey @starwars<\/a>! Will you hurry up your Rebel Scums? ? We beat you! ???? https:\/\/t.co\/b53KxKlAlj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) June 13, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That drew a quick response from actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d movies:<\/p>\n

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Looks like a boomerang to me. #Meh<\/a> ? https:\/\/t.co\/mpYAbBrDgw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) June 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Looks like the real space race is just beginning.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ibZL-JELMI<\/p>\n

Featured Image Via NASA\/JPL<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently completed its 60.000th trip around the Red Planet in May, and has been sending back incredible photos and valuable data since it was first launched in 2005.<\/p>\n

But it appears that someone may have already landed on Mars, and they left a calling card for the world to see, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}