Tough angle, prove to me it's a perfect cube/square/rectangle whatever. The side facing us is dark, and hard to tell if it's flat, the top is barely visible, hard to make out if it's also square, and 3 sides are always facing away, so at this point it's - "what are the chances of a rock having one relatively good square face?" The answer is - unlikely, but still possible. Sorry but I don't think there's much to debate. If it's really a perfect box, we can't tell, and if it isn't, it doesn't matter.

OK, we can settle this once and for all! I am organizing a trip to Mars. If the US government can do it for billions, I am sure that common citizens can do it for under $350 - using the government's propensity for over pricing. Of course at these prices each person will need to bring their own snacks and extra clean undies.

I just can't believe some of the things I'm reading in this thread..

Planes time-warping and crashing on mars?

Pulling random semi-face looking patterns out of the random chaos and calling them extraterrestrials?

There isn't anything in the photo that looks particularly extraterrestrial or terrestrial other than, maybe, the rocks themselves. I think it's great that some folks spend alot of their free time sifting through the data and the images from the Mars rovers. And I still believe that NASA is withholding information regarding UFO's. But what I'm hearing here has reached a whole new level of ridiculous.

People sift through the photos and post hundreds/thousands of images of random stuff that doesn't mean anything except someone's brain telling them there's a pattern in the chaos. That's fine. But this has reached a point where people are willing to connect all the dots they can in order to substantiate their own already-existing beliefs without considering the very normal potential explanations.

I know this is ATS and we can talk about, discuss, and debate the possibilities until our eyeballs fall out. But we can't just ignore the most likely answer because we want to believe in X.

The most likely and probable scenario is that happenstance lighting conditions and positioning of the camera with relation to the object probably combine to create an illusion of a solid cubicle shape. There is no reason to suggest this might be something of extraterrestrial or terrestrial origin. Odd shaped rocks abound on earth as well as mars.. That's what happens after billions of years of water, wind, and sand erosion.

Naturally-occurring geometric shapes in nature do not necessarily imply any kind of alien connection, time travel/vortex, or proof of intelligent design. In fact, geometric shapes in nature are quite normal and can be caused by a variety of very normal geologic processees'. The same geologic processes that have affected, and continued to affect, planets like Earth and Mars.

-ChriS

I did some imaging "enhancements" that I think prove this is part of the larger rock to the left of the alleged cube.

Here is the cropped area of the original photo in the OP's Post.


Same cropped image with colors reversed (negative).


Lastly, I applied some very interesting gradient enhancements that bring out some of the detail surrounding the cube.

Gradient map - Red, Yellow, purple


Gradient map - Orange, purple


-ChriS

I also think it's important to note that there isn't even any feasible way to determine whether or not it is even a cube to begin with. At least not with this image alone from this one angle. It's quite possible that the shadowed part of the "cube" facing the camera juts out slightly. It could be the same on the other side. There just isn't any way to tell with this image, alone. But it does appear to be part of the larger rock on the left. And considering the erosion that appears to have shaped all of these rocks over time, we also know that those same erosive forces have acted on this "cube" portion of the larger boulder.

When you consider the distorted, eroded shapes of the rocks we're seeing in the original photo, is it really so hard to believe that this could be naturally-occurring? You can look at that large boulder, alone, and see the kind of immense erosive forces that have acted on that boulder over time. It just doesn't seem so extraordinary to me when you consider the overall image for what it seems to show.. Not just the alleged cube.

Something else that is important to note..

Look at the large boulder
The side facing the camera.
Look how it tapers inward towards the base where it contacts the ground.
This causes part of the boulder to jut out along its outside edge just a couple inches from the ground.
The back end seems to jut out as well which seems to create the illusion of a cubicle form. I think what we're seeing here are erosive forces at work and this at least partially proves this.

This could be all we're seeing on the back end, which combines with a flattened, eroded top that makes this look like a flattened cube when it really isn't. Just my thoughts.

-ChriS

[edit on 11-6-2009 by BlasteR]

Hey ,slow down there debunker ! Are you so sure that there is NOTHING THERE? I hope these reproduce well and don't get cut off.This is a Moon crater. The finder posts at www.disclosetv.com .He is a major contributor of the unexplained.

[edit on 14-6-2009 by vze2xjjk]

But ,anyway back to the BOX object...my present best guess is that it's another hack cover-up job by Nasa to disguise a face by blackening it beyond recognition. As I showed you what a mailbox head looks like,I could show you over 20 faces in this pic that you wouldn't recognize because they don't exist in your experience of earth animals to compare with them. I look for symetry,a simple test,since DNA favors symetry for highly evolved living,moving beings. Some of them already have very squared heads and bodies(crawlers). I have seen much larger ANCIENT versions,like dinosaurs in comparison that look like giant BOX HEDGES sitting on hills with faces(fossilized). BOXXY...think outside the BOXXY.