A rotatable Mars with real orbital imagery, carrying two sets of places that are normally discussed in different rooms: the 1,062 cave and lava-tube candidates NASA and USGS catalogued as somewhere a mission could shelter, and the nine places American Alchemy named on air as possibly built. One switch moves between them. Every marker in the second set carries the established scientific reading in the same card as the claim.
No backend. The page asks NASA Trek for the basemap tiles and the USGS Astrogeology WMS for each close crop directly from the browser — both send access-control-allow-origin: *, which is what makes a static host enough. Nothing here is a screenshot of a product; the globe, the table, the inspector and the imagery are the working thing.
The switch at the foot of the globe is the only choice a first-time reader has to make, so it carries its own counts and both layers start on. The distinction it draws is not cosmetic — the two populations have completely different evidentiary status, and the interface never lets them blur.
| Layer | Count | What each marker is |
|---|---|---|
| Habitability caves | 1,062 | A record in a peer-reviewed NASA/USGS catalogue. No claim attached to it by anyone; the archive’s own targeting priority and type code are shown verbatim. |
| Potential ET objects | 9 | A place named in an episode. Carries the claim, who is associated with it, the established reading, and a link to the primary source for each. |
Five further places from the corpus are in the dataset and deliberately not drawn: two have no cited coordinate at all, one is on Phobos, one is a meteorite in Antarctica, and one is the planet itself. A Mars globe is the wrong surface for four of those, and inventing a pin for the fifth would be the exact error this page exists to avoid. They are listed with the reason rather than dropped.
These are not polish. Each one was shipping, each one was invisible, and each one would have been repeated by anyone reading this project as a source.
srp, 218 records — a fifth of the catalogue — labelled “sinuous rille pit” where the authors define a small rimless collapse pit. Two codes appear in the data and in no table in the archive; those now say so instead of getting a guess.longitude,latitude,Label and then puts the label first. Parse it by its own header and all 1,062 points land somewhere they have never been, with no error anywhere.A post circulating in July 2026 showed a four-lobed mound beside the Great Pyramid at matching scale, under the words “NASA announces discovery of a pyramid on Mars”, with a coordinate and no datum. It is on the map as object 9. Three things were separable, and separating them is the whole method:
So the interesting answer was not “debunked”. Two of the three components check out, including the one that sounds most extravagant, and the one that fails is the one nobody was arguing about. That is the shape most of these turn out to have, and it is only visible if you check the parts separately instead of the story whole.
All 1,062 catalogue records with their archive coordinates, type codes, priorities and verbatim comments. The corpus graph — 56 nodes, 52 edges, 72 claims — as extracted from the episodes. Every coordinate on the anomaly layer, with the source that published it. Every orbital image, fetched live from USGS and NASA Trek at request time. The one size figure this project measured itself is labelled as measured by this project, with its method and its uncertainty.
The habitability score is this app’s hypothesis, not a finding: a weighted sum whose every term, weight and substitution is shown in the inspector so a reader can re-derive or reject it. No NASA, USGS or JPL validation of any ranking here. The anomaly layer is a record of what was said and what is established — it endorses neither, and where the two disagree the page does not resolve it for you.