Flat earthers post this meme claiming NASA faked the photo:
Sometimes they even add a lie at the top:
Of course, this all lies that flat earthers tell. The original photo is The Burren in Ireland, not Devon Island, Canada, nor Greenland. The photo was taken by Jon Sullivan and posted on his public domain photos web site. The exact same photo is on the Geology of Ireland wikipedia page.
Archived page of photo published in 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20041227091845/http://pdphoto.org/PictureDetail.php?mat=pdef&pg=6111
NASA’s web site with all the Spirit Rover photos, this is where the photo would be if Flat Earth Dave wasn’t lying:
- https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit.html
- https://solarviews.com/eng/spiritgallery.htm
- This has the panorama with rover part that was copy-pasted over the Ireland photo:
Satirical video making the meme: https://indavideo.hu/video/NASA_Training_Session_-_Mars_Photography_Workshop_101_Required_Course
Archived copy of the satirical video: https://web.archive.org/web/20120814004612/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIVfRQVFYE
Reddit articles debunking this lie:
A German web site debunking this back in 2018: https://www.mimikama.org/irland-oder-mars-die-wahrheit-ueber-das-mars-meme/
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