Category: Science & Space

• NASA and the Mars Global Surveyor Artificial Lighting Theory

  A long-running Mars conspiracy theory holds that NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor mission found evidence of artificial illumination on the Martian surface, especially in night-side imagery or processed frames associated with the Cydonia region. In this theory, points of brightness, grid-like patterns, and contrast-enhanced anomalies were interpreted as signs of active structures, city lights, or surviving intelligence on Mars.