OK, now get ready for the probably worst case of Pareidolia you've ever encountered (or an intriguing discovery, perhaps
'one for the history
books?!')!
But I'm serious about this: I've been looking at Curiosity's images for months now, pretty much regularly and in great detail. What's been astonishing
to me is the sheer amount of non-natural shapes (resembling hinges, metal brackets, near perfect circular perforations etc.) that can be found in so
many images (for example
here,
here or
here). So,
while recently having pulled up the
Rocknest panorama (Sols 64-72) again, I focused
on this particular area:
Here's the
link to the panorama on GigaPan.
And I can't help it: In that particular area, I keep seeing the remains of several
SHIPS and VESSELS, leading me to the assumption that we're
actually looking at a
SHIP CEMETARY AT ROCKNEST. It's hard to believe and I've been sceptical, too, at first. But the
visual evidence is
simply overwhelming and I'd like to illustrate what I mean using some annotated close-ups of the artifacts in question.
So this is the same area highlighting the potential locations of 'Shipwrecks':
Here goes a
close-up of the lower part of the area and (for comparison) a simulation/rendering of what "I" see there using ship models that
indicate the
rough location and inclination of the potential wrecks:
Please note that the resolution of the images posted here is not sufficient to appreciate the details of the original footage on the
Rocknest panorama at GigaPan. So you really have to
spend some time on that
GigaPan and in that particular area in order to see what I mean. But if you do, you might come to the same conclusions. In the light of this new
interpretation ("Ship Cemetary") all those other strange artifical-looking artifcats at Yellowknife, Rocknest and Point Lake start to make
perfect
sense.
Below, you'll find close-ups of each of those 'wrecks' illustrating how the landscape "swallowed" up these artifacts through erosion over time. I
added annotations on where I made out the general shape of the ship hulls and some of the on-deck superstructures which are still visible here and
there:
Ship 1 (also referred to in
my previous thread):
Ship 2:
Ship 3:
Ship 4:
Ship 5:
And here goes Ship 6:
(another vessel which is not referenced in my overview-image of Rocknest and lies slightly 'below' the excerpt shown above)
And, finally, Ship 7
(yet one more vessel which is located more to the right and also lies outside of the area referenced above)
I don't know what you think (probably that I'm completely nuts, and I couldn't even be mad at you for that)!
But if it were just ONE of those
suspicious shapes - which by itself would be interesting enough - then it would have been easier to deny what I see. But given this amount of visual
evidence, I am sure we're dealing here with something completely 'unbelievable and mind-blowing' ... !
If nobody else sees this or confirms that the area in question could actually 'be' a SHIP CEMETARY, then I will of course rethink what I said in this
post. But I doubt that my conclusions will be very different from what I stated above. Yet, I'm trying to make a real case here and I think we cannot
quite grasp the potential ramifications yet, if it were true that we are looking at the
remnants of a lost martian civilization.
Knowing that this is an extraordinary and incredible claim, I hope you won't be to harsh with your responses!
P.S.: And yes, I'm completely excited about this!!
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