i guess NASA forgot to remove that plant before making the pic...

Great find OP, I can't tell you what this is but it does look some type of a rod, or metal cable going from the bottom of the hill to the top, but for what purpose?

I'll see what else I can do with the picture to get a better opinion on this.

Perhaps a hair on the film during processing/enlarging?

Yup. A hair or a scratch. Look on your brightened copy and it goes all the way down the hillside.

looks like an imperfection in the equipment during capture of the image

Thanks, all. I'm definitely not a photo expert. However, that hair or whatever it is really looks like something real in the photo. I did a little more digging after I posted this last night and I found other versions of the same photo that didn't have the 'object'. Later, I found a website where this was being discussed and a guy actually made a copy of the photo with one of his own hairs in it and it looked very similar to this one. So, yeah, I think case closed.

P.S. I'm not doing any more photographic anomaly posts!

Originally posted by sjag9
P.S. I'm not doing any more photographic anomaly posts!

Why not?

If you come across something you find puzzling ATS is a good place to post about it. The peanut gallery will soon sort it out or not. Either way we all learn something and that's the important thing.

Yeah, it looks like some flaw in the negative.