Mid-April.
A paper by the research institute, bearing the name of the Mars Landing Plan Office, was published in the latest issue of Future.
Mysterious geological formation discovered on Mars!
Earthquake fissure mysteriously vanished overnight!
After the paper was published, it immediately drew widespread international attention.
For a long time, people had understood Mars as a silent desert planet, without a complete ecosystem or intense geological activity. All it had were raging red sands and rugged terrain formed in ancient geological eras, eroded by dust storms for billions of years.
Yet this discovery undoubtedly overturned people's established impression of the planet.
Not only did Mars appear to have relatively recent geological activity, it might even possess unique geological phenomena not found on Earth!
At the very least, no one on Earth had ever heard of an already-formed earthquake fissure repairing itself overnight, leaving no trace as though nothing had happened.
On a well-known international astronomy enthusiast forum.
Almost as soon as the paper was published, someone translated it into English and reposted it there, quickly sparking discussions on a scale that flooded the entire forum.
"WTF? Mars's geological structures are still active? Doesn't that mean restoring Mars's magnetic field and terraforming its atmosphere are actually possible?"
"Yeah, possible. The odds are just infinitely close to zero. I'm more curious about how that fissure vanished. The pictures look strange, but they don't seem edited."
"Could aliens have done it?"
"Haha, can't rule it out! Maybe that fissure is actually a passage to Martian civilization?"
"Your imagination is a little wild..."
"I remembered a video I saw somewhere before—there was a Martian holding a painting and walking in front of Curiosity... Maybe everything we've learned about Mars is only what the people living there wanted us to see."
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