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Originally posted by cllj7
Can someone please explain this one?
ETA: This one is right by my house:
Originally posted by SuperSlovak
its just an illusion that makes it look like something else. im sure phage will be here shortly.
Originally posted by Cybernet
Check out some new stuff that i've found today:
A factory:
More pipes:
Some objects:
Originally posted by Cybernet
But if you look closely, you have to see it.
It's in your face, step from the monitor a bit perhaps. And check out the other pictures i posted earlier
Originally posted by Cybernet
I can see a difference between rocks, pipes and buildings.
Originally posted by Cybernet
if you seriously can't see anything at all,
then i assume your eyesight is bad.
Originally posted by SuperSlovak
its just an illusion that makes it look like something else. im sure phage will be here shortly.
Originally posted by Cybernet
reply to post by dereks
The resolution is what it is. I don't know the scale. I said - it is from Google Mars and if you don't know what that is, i'm afraid i can't help you and we have a problem. You can check it out yourself. And no, you are wrong and can't see it obviously - yes, there are rocks in the pictures TOO, but if there were just rocks, i wouldn't bother to post them and if you seriously can't see anything at all, then i assume your eyesight is bad. No offense mate.
[edit on 6/12/09 by Cybernet]
OK, what's a "Crinoid?"
A crinoid [sometimes called a "sea lily," because of its superficial appearance to a spreading flower (below)] is, as James Calhoun described, "a filter feeding, marine, plant-like animal …." Crinoids first appeared in Earth's primeval seas over 500 million years ago, in the so-called "Cambrian Era," climbing to dominance over the next 150 million years, before receding once again in the terrestrial fossil record.
A few days after the acquisition of this remarkable image, NASA held a sudden "water press conference" in Washington DC. There they announced, with much fanfare, that Opportunity had discovered – via its analytical equipment, measuring the chemistry of the outcrop -- that the site it was exploring once " was soaking wet in the past." While refraining from also claiming that "Opportunity Ledge's" layers of sediments had been laid down in actual liquid water, they came very close … and hinted that this confirmation could come "as early as a few days."
So, what do we have here?...
Crinoids lived in ocean water – ranging from a few feet deep to several miles – anchoring their stems on the ocean floor and feeding on whatever nutrients drifted by. If you look at a combined map of where JPL landed its two Rovers, and the Odyssey GRS orbital determination of water abundance in the upper one meter of Martian soil, a glance will suffice to show the Rovers are indeed exploring none other than the shallows of our two proposed equatorial Martian tidal oceans (below)! Almost as if that had been planned …
So, what did the JPL Rover science Team do with this potentially explosive scientific find …?
They promptly ground it into powder … right before our eyes (PanCAm color image, below)!