Amazing "like living crature" anomaly on martian surface in Curiosity sol 173?

Originally posted by Alxandro
I wish I had the time to analyze these Mars pics a lot closer.
Unless you are getting paid for it, seems like a waste of time, but still I appreciate those who do.
I doubt this is a lizard but there sure have been quite a bit of anomalies found on the Martian surface that appear to be out of place with the natural surroundings.
In this case, it looks like a highly polished piece of rock that protrudes from the ground.
If it's old debris from Martian history it certainly needs to be investigated further.

Thanks in advance for your efforts.

reply to post by Soylent Green Is People


I saw already those images. Only that tiny black dot?
Frankly do not convince me.....

However: Are there other images with same resolution that I've posted in the Opening Post? Or not?

Originally posted by ArMaP

The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.

YouWe should look at the original photo, not at resampled versions and much less at the coloured versions.

This is what the object looks like when resized to 400% without resampling. This is what the image really shows.

It has too much JPEG artefacts to be useful.

As an ATS Staff Member, I will not moderate in threads such as this where I have participated as a member.

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these people that say it's clearly just a rock need their eyes checked, I'm viewing this on my mobile phone and have been able to see the lizard similarity since the first post. now, this one makes the gaps between the rock and the "legs", you can clearly see the light under them. I'm not saying this is a creature/fossil but it's an interesting find.

furthermore, for those that asked about footprints, do you leave footprints when you walk across rock? i don't!

also, someone said earlier if they saw examples of this on earth they might rethink and the link to rocks shaped like animals (including one close to me, the least convincing Elephant Rock) but they were all massive examples, not as small and delicate looking like the one on mars.

this is one of the most convincing 'anomalies' on Mars I've seen, would love to be able to find it for sure what it is. at the end of the day NONE of us know and THAT's the bottom line!

reply to post by Arken

It might be a highly-evolved crature; it looks like it's wearing a pair Ray Bans.

Originally posted by Arken
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People

 

I saw already those images. Only that tiny black dot?

Frankly do not convince me.....

However: Are there other images with same resolution that I've posted in the Opening Post? Or not?

I was only saying that the object is still there in those images taken over a span of nine days. The black dot is obviously the object, because it is EXACTLY where the object is in the close-ups. There are no close-up images yet because the rover hasn't really moved any in the past two weeks -- maybe only moving a few feet in that time.

The question was raised "why doesn't NASA image that area", and I simply answered that they DID image that area at least three times over a nine day span. If you are looking for close-ups, the image you provided in your OP is one, and this is another:

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

If you want even closer images, we may have to wait until the Rover is done doing the science it is doing in the area that it is in right now (I think it is preparing to drill soon). Hopefully, once the rover moves on, it may get a better look at that object.

I'd like to see it close-up, also. At "first blush" it seems it could be metallic, meaning a possible meteor (maybe) aggregated as part of the native rock.

**double post**

Originally posted by Quauhtli

Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
reply to post by windword

 

Those are pictures of the heat shield from the rover Opportunity. The, heat shield, back shell and parachute detach from the rover before the rover lands, and they go off and crash land elsewhere.

www.flickr.com...

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...

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My opinion may not be worth anything but I have studied auto collision repair. Even without that experience it looks painfully clear to me, there is no doubt that the pic in your first link is staged. There is no way that that is an impact site and that the debris in the pic left that circular impact crater. No way! The crater itself in size and proportion is not possible.

Why wouldn't the heat shield leave a round mark in the ground on impact? The heat shield is round, as seen in this image:

photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov...

I would think it is plausible that the round heat shield would leave a round mark on impact, then break up and bounce away after impact, as seen in the first image in my post you quoted above (the heat shield is the object on the right).

My question to you would be "what shape mark SHOULD a round heat shield leave after it strikes that ground?"

This is definitely the most interesting Mars picture I've seen in years. Whatever it is, it instantly stands out against everything else in the image and doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the landscape. It kind of looks like some type of metal ore to me, but it also really, really does look like some type of lizard-like creature and I usually don't buy into the whole "hey look this rock kind of sort of looks like a monkey" thing.

Very interesting, either way, and it's fun to think about the possibility of this actually being a Martial lifeform. I dub thee the Frizzard (Frog lizard).

reply to post by Arken


has anyone else noticed on the main picture theres something just to the right of the lizard looks like another reptile!

its a reptilian shapeshifter, so even if you take pics of it later it will have moved (probably)

I was going to write a clever reply talking about the unlikely nature of Lizards existing in a form we'd recognise in a place where the temperature only reaches 6 Degrees C at Midday....then I remembered I've seen several reptiles on Earth that live in a similar temperature environment ( Adder - Vivaparous Lizards, some Amphibinas such as frogs etc)

The lack of Oxygen and the relentless assualt of Solar radiation makes this an unlikely Lizard however as it looks far too familiar to be adapted to Mars.

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Great find Arken... really curious what this could be? looks reptile , but the color , its almost like everything has the same color. I would expect that life evolving had more variety in coloring? But I could be wrong.... By the way you missed something on sol 17?.. I found the Martian box of Pandora.... really amazing it looks like it has buttons on it. Its so square, you can't miss it!.. And you can find it on 4 images,

Lets see who finds this Box first ...(this is no joke)

Originally posted by Arken
reply to post by impaired

 

Hi there impaired. No prob.

For sure an interesting anomaly, even if very but very suspicious.
Same resolution?
Can you please provide the links?
I don't find them...

Thx.

They're somewhere in here, but they're only thumbnails. The coordinates of the object match with the thumbnails.

curiosityrover.com...

It's there. You're good at finding things. I'd help you, but I'm exhausted trying to make this new rover self-portrait perfect. Plus, it's taking hours to computer and render!

I cannot stop coming back and looking at this! I can't wait till nasa to lie but still curious on their take...i'm sure it has came back and someone got canned for just letting it slip unless they wanted it to be seen. ANSWER'S WE NEED ANSWER'S!!! lol but still intrigued and will look at it a few hundred more time's im sure with the same result's, scratching myhead! my daughter even said she wanted to play with the silver aligator on the compooter.......who know's or will we ever?

Originally posted by Arken
Looks like a creature, a living creature on martian surface that take the sunbeams on a rock on Curiosity Sol 173 It's some sort of reptile? It's some sort of mantis? For sure this amazing "Object" cast many questions and seem alive. At a closer look you can see front and posterior legs and a strange head and eyes that point to the SUN.

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This does not look like a living creature to me, however it is known that Mars does have artificial structures and while the quality of this photo is not good enough to be able to be 100 percent sure, this looks like an artificial structure of some sort. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if it was.