Originally posted by Zanti Misfit
reply to post by mother1138
Interesting Thread , maybe someone can Confirm or Deny these Anomolies on Mars as being Something out of the Ordinary , or Explainable Tricks of Light
and Shadow.....
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That's the back shell and parachute from the Mars Rover
Opportunity
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Those are dust specks on the "Left Eye" of the Navigation camera, or "Nav-Cam" (the nav-cam has two cameras for binocular 3D vision). These spots
appear on virtually ALL of the left-nav-cam pictures, but they don't show up on the right-nav-cam pictures, which are taken simultaneously with the
left.
Here is another left-nav-cam picture (taken on a different day the ones in your link were taken) with those same spots:
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...And here is the corresponding "right eye" picture, without the spots:
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Here are more left-nav-cam pictures showing those same spots:
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I can see the dark spots, but it's hard to tell what they are. Perhaps they are sink holes similar to what NASA's LRO spacecraft has seen, described
here in this link:
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Link
...or maybe just craters.
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That's the heat shield of the Mars Rover
Spirit
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Those are the imprints left by the air bags when the spacecraft carrying the Mars Rover
Opportunity made its "bouncy and rolling" landing on
Mars.
Click Here for Link (picture
and caption in the news article)
You can see them here in this 360-degree panoramic image (images below), toward the left-center and all the way to the right. You can see the path
the airbag-encased rover took while rolling to a stop in Eagle Crater:
...By the way, it was named "Eagle Crater" in part because the airbag-encased rover rolled right into it upon landing -- which is like a
hole-in-one in golf, hence the name "Eagle" (which is two under par in golf; a hole-in-one is virtually always on a par-3 hole).
NOTE: The file is relatively large (8.5MB)
Here is a smaller version of the same image:
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