text: The texts states what the picture actually shows. It says, "what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-- landforms common around the American West." This is a landform. Garivn states that it reminds him most of Middle Butte in the Snake RIver Plain of Idaho. People have seen this types of landforms on Earth too, and there is no aliens on Earth. they have said it's a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa.