{"id":2134,"date":"2012-04-12T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T20:31:27","slug":"monolith-object-on-mars-you-could-call-it-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/04\/12\/monolith-object-on-mars-you-could-call-it-that\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Monolith&#8217; Object on Mars? You Could Call It That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2135\" title=\"monotith\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/monotith-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amateur stargazers have discovered an intriguing object jutting out from the surface of Mars. The seemingly perfectly rectangular, upright structure, found in NASA<a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/15244-monolith-mars-2001-space-odyssey.html#\" rel=\"nofollow\">images<\/a>\u00a0of the Red Planet, bears a striking resemblance to the monoliths planted on Earth and the moon by aliens in the classic sci-fi film &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The object in question was first spotted several years ago after being photographed by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA space probe; every so often, it garners renewed interest on the Internet. But is it unnatural \u2014 a beacon erected by aliens for mysterious reasons, and even more mysteriously paralleled in the imaginations of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke,\u00a0creators of &#8220;2001&#8221;? Or is this rock the work of nature?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/15244-monolith-mars-2001-space-odyssey.html\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur stargazers have discovered an intriguing object jutting out from the surface of Mars. The seemingly perfectly rectangular, upright structure, found in NASAimages\u00a0of the Red Planet, bears a striking resemblance to the monoliths planted on Earth and the moon by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/04\/12\/monolith-object-on-mars-you-could-call-it-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}