A MYSTERY light seen on Mars has prompted fresh speculation that there’s life on the Red Planet.
The white beam was captured by Nasa's Curiosity rover that has been monitoring the planet’s rocky surface for two years.
The photograph has set alien conspiracy theorists abuzz over the possibility of Martian life 57 million miles away.
UFO blogger Scott Waring was the first to spot the odd image on the Martian landscape.
"This could indicate that there is intelligent life below the ground that uses light as we do," he wrote on his website UFO Sightings Daily.
“This is not a glare from the sun, nor an artefact of the photo process.
“Look closely at the bottom of the light. It has a very flat surface, giving us 100 per cent indication it is from the surface.
“Sure NASA could go and investigate it, but hey, they are not on Mars to discover life, but there to stall its discovery”Scott Waring, UFO blogger
"Sure NASA could go and investigate it, but hey, they are not on Mars to discover life, but there to stall its discovery."
However, scientists from NASA have already come forward to suggest technologically sound theories.
Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tweeted that cosmic rays, radiation from dying stars, likely interfered with Curiosity's computer equipment.
This is backed by an official statement from NASA, adding that Curiosity has two cameras and the mysterious glint only appears in the robot's 'right-eye' camera.
"In the thousands of images we've received from Curiosity, we see ones with bright spots nearly every week," said NASA's Justin Maki in the report.
In the next few weeks Curiosity will arrive at its next study location to take additional rock samples, to see if the Red Planet could once have supported life.