10 Crazy Theories And Conspiracies Regarding Mars
Human beings have been fascinated by Mars since antiquity. Now, we’re working toward landing on it. However, conspiracy theorists and fringe thinkers will tell you that we’ve already been to Mars, at the very least. These crazy-sounding but interesting stories won’t go away until we finally set foot on the red planet. In the meantime, here are 10 “out of this world” theories about our celestial next-door neighbor.
10 Is Phobos Really A Space Station?
When the European Space Agency stated that one of Mars’s moons, Phobos, appeared to be hollow, it mirrored the findings of Russian astrophysicist Dr. Iosif Shklovsky from the late 1960s. Not only did Shklovsky believe that Phobos was hollow, but taking its unusual and uneven orbit into account, he believed there was a real possibility that it was artificial.