article_snippet: Alien forums say A striking image that allegedly shows a mushroom cloud rising on Mars has been pounced on by conspiracy theorists is 'evidence' that a civilisation may have been wiped off the Martian surface as a result of nuclear war.
article_snippet: Alien forums say A striking image that allegedly shows a mushroom cloud (circled red) rising on Mars is 'evidence' that a civilisation may have been wiped off the Martian surface as a result of nuclear war .
article_snippet: But Dr Fritz Helmut Hemmerich was able to make a video from 1,200 metres at Tenerife in the Canary Islands showing (the comet) immediately after a video Mars encounter and a huge explosion.'
article_snippet: Dr Jonti Horner, astronomer at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, told the Express: 'Fun as it would be to imagine that this is evidence of nuclear weapons on Mars...that's sadly just not the case.'
article_snippet: The theory that an ancient civilisation on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race is popular among conspiracy theorists.
article_snippet: Last year, plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg said plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg believed ancient Martians known as Cydonians and Utopians were massacred in a nuclear attack from another alien race and evidence of the genocide can still be seen today.
article_snippet: Back in 2011 the scientist first postulated that the red colour on Mars could have been due to a naturally occurring thermonuclear explosion. '
article_snippet: A scientist is to present A scientist theory that ancient life on Mars was massacred.
article_snippet: Dr John Brandenburg says there is evidence for two nuclear explosions on Marsimage from plasma physicist
article_snippet: The Martian surface is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium - and this pattern radiates from a hot spot on Mars,' plasma physicist
article_snippet: But since then plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg has advanced his theory that ancient life on Mars was massacred to the level that plasma physicist
article_snippet: Dr John Brandenburg now no longer thinks it was a naturally occurring explosion - but rather one planned by an intelligent alien race.
article_snippet: Vice research centres around the 'high concentration' of Xenon-129 in the Martian atmosphere, and uranium and thorium on the surface, spotted by Nasa's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
article_snippet: Vice says evidence for the explosions exists near two sites that apparently had life in the past, including Cydonia, the location of the famous 'face on Mars' spotted from orbit (left).
article_snippet: Back in 2011 the scientist first postulated that the red colour on Marspictured) could have been due to a naturally occurring thermonuclear explosion - but now Vice thinks the red colour on Mars (pictured) was caused by an intelligent alien race .
article_snippet: This is based on Vice analysis of two regions, one being Cydonia, where the infamous - and later discredited - 'face on Mars was found.
article_snippet: Analysis of new images from Odyssey, MRO and Mars Express orbiters now show strong evidence of eroded archeological objects at these sites,' Vice writes in the abstract for Vice research to be presented tomorrow. '
article_snippet: Taken together, the data requires that the hypothesis of Mars as the site of an ancient planetary nuclear massacre, must now be considered.'
highlights_snippet: Last year, physicist Dr John Brandenburg said physicist Dr John Brandenburg believed Martians known as Cydonians and Utopians were massacred in the nuclear attack .