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Originally posted by Taymour
Crater of Clues on Mars: An Alien Statue Broken in 3?
MER Opportunity - Endurance Crater:
WHY NASA call this anonymous crater "CRATER OF CLUES"?
May Be for This..........
This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the impact crater known as "Endurance." Scientists are eager to explore Endurance for clues to the red planet's history. The crater's exposed walls provide a window to what lies beneath the surface of Mars and thus what geologic processes occurred there in the past. While recent studies of the smaller crater nicknamed "Eagle" revealed an evaporating body of salty water, that crater was not deep enough to indicate what came before the water. Endurance may be able to help answer this question, but the challenge is getting to the scientific targets: most of the crater's rocks are embedded in vertical cliffs. Rover planners are currently developing strategies to overcome this obstacle.
Originally posted by Bones_
Originally posted by Lazyninja
I reckon that's a tree and some rocks. You can see the exposed inner lighter coloured part of the tree at the break. Looks like it was snapped in a high wind and is being held together by the bark.
So yeah, guessing fossilized tree and rocks.
There's trees on Mars?
Originally posted by Lazyninja
Originally posted by Bones_
Originally posted by Lazyninja
I reckon that's a tree and some rocks. You can see the exposed inner lighter coloured part of the tree at the break. Looks like it was snapped in a high wind and is being held together by the bark.
So yeah, guessing fossilized tree and rocks.
There's trees on Mars?
Probably not. But Occam's razor says it's more likely than a statue with clearly defined pectoral muscles.
DO YOU SEE A "TREE"???
I don't think Occam's Razor says this with what we know and don't know today. I think Occam's Razor points to life in the universe.
Originally posted by Lazyninja
I reckon that's a tree and some rocks. You can see the exposed inner lighter coloured part of the tree at the break. Looks like it was snapped in a high wind and is being held together by the bark.
So yeah, guessing fossilized tree and rocks.
Originally posted by Lazyninja
No offense but it's this kind of paradolia that gives us a bad name.
Trees and fossils on Mars without data to back up your claim, but statue is pareidolia?
My observation that it looks like a tree was just that. It was suggested that the thing is a statue. To me that is paradolia. I'm fully aware that me seeing a tree is just the human perspective and paradolia at work on me also.
Originally posted by Lazyninja
Do read the whole thread dear chap
Originally posted by vze2xjjk
reply to post by Taymour
It's similar to a Mars dog head.