火星上有神祕“女郎”？！

Womanon Mars?

Perched on a rock, she could be waiting for a bus.

But if so, she could be in for an awfully long wait.

A photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched was among several taken on Mars and sent back to Earth by NASA's Mars explorer Spirit, Britain's Daily Mail reported yesterday.

Though no official confirmation has come from NASA on whether the figure is an alien or an optical illusion caused by landscape on Mars, it has set the Internet abuzz that whether there really is life on Mars.

As one enthusiast put it on the newspaper's website: "These pictures are amazing. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw what appears to be a naked alien running around on Mars."

Another wrote: "If you show me another rock in another photo from Mars, that naturally looks like that, I will reconsider."

A third contributor, who came closer tothe majority view,said: "Ah, the human eye can be tricked so easily."

The news of the mystery woman on Mars came just days after a team of French scientists claimed to have discovered proof that Mars has high dense clouds of dry ice, which scud across its orange sky, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported.

Using data obtained by the OMEGA spectrometer on board European Space Agency's Mars Express, the team found the existence of ice clouds which sometimes become so dense that they throw quite dark shadows on the dusty surface of the planet.

她坐在一塊岩石上，像是在等公共汽車。

不過如果真的是這樣，那麼她只能永無止境地等下去了。

據英國《每日郵報》昨日報道，美國宇航局“勇氣號”火星探測器向地球發回了一組從火星上拍攝的照片，其中一張照片上有一個伸着手臂、酷似女人的身影。

儘管美國宇航局尚未正式確認這個“人形”是“火星人”還是由火星特殊地形引起的視錯覺，但這張照片已在互聯網上引起了是否真的存在“火星人”的熱烈討論。

一位天文愛好者在《每日郵報》網站上留言說：“這些照片太令人驚訝了。當我看到這張照片時，我簡直不敢相信自己的眼睛——看上去就像一個外星人在火星上裸奔。”

還有一位網友評論說：“除非還能找到類似的人形照片，否則我不會相信！”

另一位網友的觀點則代表了大多數人的看法：“人類的眼睛總是容易被騙。”

據《印度斯坦時報》報道，在火星“神祕女郎”消息公佈幾天前，法國一個科學家小組稱他們發現了火星橘紅色上空存在濃密乾冰雲的證據。

根據歐洲航天局“火星快車”探測器上裝備的OMEGA光譜儀獲取的數據，該科學家小組發現，由於火星上空的乾冰雲有時很密集，所以會在覆蓋着很多塵埃的火星表面投下陰影。

alien:外星人