Google Earth is a very useful tool for exploring our planet. A lot of people dig into it and look at satellite photos. But Google Earth shows not only the Earth, but also the Moon and Mars.
Selecting a planet in the Google Earth program.
Triangle of martian mountains
If you twist the globe of the red planet, then four large mountains immediately catch your eye. The largest of them is Mount Olympus.
Mount Olympus on Mars (computer graphics).
It is one of the largest mountains in the solar system. Its height is 21 kilometers from the base. For comparison, the largest mountain on Earth is the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. Its height from the foot, which is at the bottom of the ocean, is approximately 10 kilometers.
Comparison of the height of the Martian Olympus and the terrestrial peaks of Everest and Mauna Kea.
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Martian Olympus turns out to be twice as tall and larger, it has a base with a diameter of about 550 kilometers. Curiously, this base is raised above the plain by about 7 kilometers and forms a platform. Why nature did this, scientists make various assumptions.
That is, the Martian Olympus is a hefty mountain, which is immediately noticeable on the planet's globe. There are three smaller mountains next to it: Mount Askria, Mount Peacock and Mount Arsia. Which also have an impressive height and size. And here the interesting things begin.
Mount Olympus, Askria, Arsia and Mount Peacock on the surface of Mars.
As you can see for yourself, the mountains of Askriya, Pavlina, Arsia are on one straight line. Let's run it for clarity. The distance between the mountains Askria and Arsia (for some reason, both begin with the letter A) is approximately 1525 kilometers. This is how Google Earth shows the distance ruler. The angle of this straight line is 38 degrees, if the direction to the Martian north is counted as 0 degrees. Remember, this will come in handy when comparing with the Egyptian pyramids.
It turns out that the three mountains form a straight line and stand at equal distances.
Peacock Mountain is located almost exactly in the middle between the other two mountains. The volcano itself is somewhat displaced, but if we take the distance not from the crater or vent, but from the center of the platform, we get an almost exact hit. 760 kilometers in both directions to two other mountains.
Moreover, if you look at the profile of the relief, you can see that the Askria and Arsia mountains have almost the same height. Different sources give different numbers, but Google Earth shows approximately 17 kilometers. But Peacock Mountain, which is in the middle, has a height of 14 kilometers.
Relief profile.
It turns out a very interesting education. Three huge mountains are exposed in exactly one straight line at equal distances from each other. Moreover, the extreme mountains are of equal height.
Is this a game of blind forces of nature and tectonic processes?
If we draw a line from the center of the base of Mount Peacock to the largest peak on Mars, Mount Olympus, we find that this line is perpendicular to the direction in which the three mountains are located. And the distance between Mount Peacock and Olympus is equal … attention, about 1560 kilometers. Almost the same as between the mountains Arsia and Askria.
Equal distances between Mount Olympus-Pavlina and Arsia-Askria.
Look, it's a coincidence again! A case that places mountains at equal distances.
We just have to draw lines between Olympus to Arsia and Askria to get an isosceles triangle. Moreover, its height is equal to the length of the base, and at the top is one of the highest mountains of the solar system - Olympus.
Martian natural triangle.
Did it happen that way? An isosceles triangle is formed, in which the height is equal to the base. But it’s even more fun.
Egyptian pyramids triangle
We have already measured the angle of the base line of the triangle, that is, the direction between the Martian mountains Arsia and Askria. According to the Google Earth program, this angle is 38 degrees.
The base angle of the Martian triangle is 38 degrees.
Now let's turn our gaze from the red planet back to Earth. And we will see the most famous and massive ancient monument - the Egyptian pyramids on the Giza plateau.
Pyramids of Egypt.
Why pyramids? It just came to my mind, three mountains on Mars, a complex of three pyramids on Earth. Come on, I think I'll compare. Three Egyptian pyramids are precisely oriented to the cardinal points and stand exactly along the north-south, east-west axes. But if we draw a straight line through the entire complex of three pyramids, from the southwestern corner of the pyramid of Mikerin to the northeastern corner of the pyramid of Cheops, we get an angle of 38 degrees. Exactly the same, under which three huge mountains on Mars are located in a line.
The Egyptian pyramids are located in a line at the same angle as the mountains on Mars - 38 degrees.
Coincidence? A blind play of chance? Again???
Well, if the three pyramids and the angle coincide, then let's complete the triangle, like on Mars. So that the length of its height coincides with the length of the base. We will do as on the Red Planet.
The length of the line between the extreme corners of the pyramids is 1155 meters.
1155 meters length of the line between the extreme corners of the pyramids.
If we draw a perpendicular line of the same length to the left, then its end is in the center of the circle-lawn.
The height of the triangle of the Egyptian pyramids falls into an interesting place.
It is not clear what this site is, from there everyone takes pictures of the pyramids, and no one is interested in clicking this place. In the center is something, perhaps a bush or tree.
We increase.
At the top of the Egyptian triangle was a round square.
In the center of which there is something.
View of this circle. Palm trees, pyramids, and no one else notices. Photo by Joan Martinez.
These circles are not as simple as they might seem at first glance. They are present in many places on the planet, but about them another time.
It turns out that the Egyptian pyramids form the same triangle as the mountains on Mars! The Martian triangle consists of four mountains (one at the base), the Egyptian one is composed of three pyramids and a mysterious circle. Triangles are isosceles in which the length of the height is equal to the length of the base. But not only that, these triangles are located at the same angle! On different planets!
The Martian Triangle.
Egyptian triangle.
And all this is accidental? By itself? Can you believe this? Me not.
According to science, the ancient Egyptians did not have astronomical instruments through which they could see the mountains on Mars. And who placed the huge Martian mountains in a right triangle? Do not amuse others with "scientific" statements that this happened as a result of chaotic tectonic activity.
Public science is ordered not to notice them and not to study such coincidences. And we are a little curious. There is still a lot of interesting things on Mars, and on Earth there are also such supposedly accidents in abundance.
Author: Artyom Voitenkov