Help with some Mars foolishness

Can someone help me explain what this is, instead
of the weird and wild speculations that are going on
about it?
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...iedtubesys.htm

Or http://tinyurl.com/4q4hq

I get the feeling that this image has been very modified from the
original.


Thanks in advance.
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