I am not a “Richard Hoagland fan”, but part of the image seems strange, and I don’t understand if it is just a distortion from the presentation and format it has been delivered to us, or what.
On the left 1/3 of the image, left of center of that section, above the black (no image) area at the bottom, there are two very symmetrical features that appear to be some type of “arms” (camera or sensor booms?) of the rover. Not an issue.
But, just to the right of them and in what appears to be the foreground (landscape) appears another very symmetrical area. It has the appearance/shape (we know it isn’t) of what a “neighborhood” would look like in an earth sattelite image. I am using that description only to describe its symmetrical appearance, not to imply that that’s what it is.
The strangeness (to me) is not that it is such a thing (a neighborhood), but how symmetrical it is. Nature rarely ever creates such very symmetrical (look how the little “rows” line up) features in landscapes - the weathering aspects, and affects, of nature contain too many variables to create them.
Maybe, like I said, there is a distortion in the presentation of the image. I’m just intrigued, not “spooked”.
It’s a Martian city. Not big though, about a foot across.
Left side: antenna, arm, solar panel.
Center: arm (possibly camera boom)
Right side: solar panel.
It’s part of the rover itself. The photo is a mosaic of a bunch of images. In a couple of the images, the panels of the rover are in the very foreground.