Where are we looking I just see rocks? (not bashing just need a little help seeing a fossil)

Well I'm only seeing rocks. Pretty rocks though, they almost look like Jade. In the first picture there's three holes in the "Object" which are probably from Curiosity's chem laser. It'd be nice if we could get all the data that goes along with the pictures, know what I mean? Like when the chemcam is used, we should be able to get our hands on the spectral analysis...

Rocks or fossils, Mars is just plain COOL!

I really suspect those sumbitches have some kind of defocussing program they use like a screen to foil proper analysis of anything they show......
Like the space blurr the cameras show on the shuttle flights...its a false screen they use....
Theres no reason there has to be such crappy focusing on stuff all the time...
We see what we get shown.........................

All I see is an eagerness to see fossils.

Originally posted by stirling
I really suspect those sumbitches have some kind of defocussing program they use like a screen to foil proper analysis of anything they show......
Like the space blurr the cameras show on the shuttle flights...its a false screen they use....
Theres no reason there has to be such crappy focusing on stuff all the time...
We see what we get shown.........................

What are you talking about? The Shuttles and the ISS are full of HDTV cameras, some of the nicest cameras and lenses that exist are used to shoot things from there.

I have no idea what you're tryng to claim but high quality Shuttle/ISS photography exists and is common.

Originally posted by stirling
I really suspect those sumbitches have some kind of defocussing program they use like a screen to foil proper analysis of anything they show......
Like the space blurr the cameras show on the shuttle flights...its a false screen they use....
Theres no reason there has to be such crappy focusing on stuff all the time...
We see what we get shown.........................

You mean like this photo?

Yes, such a horrible blurry image with bad focus, I don't know how they can feed us such crap.

Well looking at the first image posted, if my imagination was to run wild I would say some of those rocks look remarkably similar to a fossil of a large bull-ant.




In this image i've composed a comparison to show you the similarities. You can even see the indents of the eyes.

Originally posted by wildespace

Originally posted by stirling
I really suspect those sumbitches have some kind of defocussing program they use like a screen to foil proper analysis of anything they show......
Like the space blurr the cameras show on the shuttle flights...its a false screen they use....
Theres no reason there has to be such crappy focusing on stuff all the time...
We see what we get shown.........................

You mean like this photo?

Yes, such a horrible blurry image with bad focus, I don't know how they can feed us such crap.

This thing I've circled sure looks blurry to me! What kind of cameras do NASA have that cant focus on the foreground whilst focused on the background!! PURE CRAP!!!

Originally posted by PollyPeptide
This thing I've circled sure looks blurry to me! What kind of cameras do NASA have that cant focus on the foreground whilst focused on the background!! PURE CRAP!!!

One of the other forums that discuss this (cluesforum) genuinely do not understand this. Sometimes NASA takes photos at beyond hyperfocal distances from their lenses, and they take photos everywhere from 8mm fisheyes to 600mm telephotos.

This really confuses the amateur hour photoanalysis club, who cannot understand how the background appears so close and so far, and how things are in focus from such a long range.

I think someone did link hyperfocal distance to them at some point but they are willfully ignorant, they'd rather believe NASA fakes all these images with a CGI program but that CGI program apparently doesn't contain camera parameters.

Who knows, it's basically born out of a lack of understanding, but I thought I'd comment on your funny sarcastic post

Originally posted by Polonia
Well looking at the first image posted, if my imagination was to run wild I would say some of those rocks look remarkably similar to a fossil of a large bull-ant.

In this image i've composed a comparison to show you the similarities. You can even see the indents of the eyes.

edit on 14-12-2012 by Polonia because: (no reason given)

When I first looked at this picture, it sure looked like what you saw. A big ant. But after closer examination it seems to be a midrib of a creature.