Debunking tale that a nuclear explosion has been photographed on Mars’s surface

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PARIS: IT’S a favourite among Red Planet conspiracy theorists: That a massive nuclear war scorched Mars lifeless. Now a new photo is being bundled among the “evidence”.
A long-dead civilisation. Scattered remains among the red dust. Now the mushroom cloud from a long-dead war?
The idea of a long lost Martian civilisation has been around ever since NASA astronomers innocently quipped that they had found a “face” etched into the landscape in photographs beamed back by the Viking 1 spacecraft in 1976.
Grainy, fuzzy photos were scoured. Dots connected. Lines aligned.
Soon, an entire city — complete with pyramids — emerged from the Martian desert.But every time a space probe managed to take another, closer look — these carefully crafted interpretations would vanish in a puff of logic.