Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014)

a reply to: Blue Shift

if that was on earth , I wonder how many reply's there would be of blug or blurred

im going for a conservative 100 million quadrillion , then I might be using a proverbial dimension or two

looks a bit more like a clomet to my eye , tail and all

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originally posted by: funbox
looks a bit more like a clomet to my eye , tail and all

The one in the upper right corner looks more bug-like. So, two out of the four images have some kind of anomaly.

a reply to: Blue Shift



pics



seems familiar some how ..

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some oddity from Mahli cam



extreame-o-pilla ?

828

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White bug this time. Sol 823:

a reply to: Blue Shift

an interesting re-occurrence , albeit not quite the same in shape , ide say they're similar enough to interrelate the two differently timed and framed occurrences to one attributable thing



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Another one of those little antenna bugs:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...


Here's the other one I found all flattened out a while back:

originally posted by: Blue Shift
Another one of those little antenna bugs:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Here's the other one I found all flattened out a while back:

Interesting.

Have you got a reference for the second pic? Pls.

originally posted by: Blister
Interesting.
Have you got a reference for the second pic? Pls.

Sure. It's from Sol 572:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

a reply to: Blue Shift

find a third and you'll be able to name it

relevantly irrelevant , but to add some more weight to the extremophiles category of creature , the Japanese may have unearthed them to the extreme

life in deep places

their maybe chance yet to see something unearthed by the rover that's still in motion
*

quite a bundle of shots in 837 ,



mast 837

keeping it with the draconian theme

funbox

originally posted by: funbox
find a third and you'll be able to name it

I'll keep a lookout for another one. Although I think it's funny that of all the shapes I've seen, I wasn't expecting to find another one of the little antenna bugs.

a reply to: Blue Shift

Even though you, yourself (as your avatar), have antennas?

originally posted by: Blue Shift

originally posted by: Blister
Interesting.
Have you got a reference for the second pic? Pls.

Sure. It's from Sol 572:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Many thanks, Blue Shift

originally posted by: Aleister
Even though you, yourself (as your avatar), have antennas?

Yeah, but my antennas aren't like an ant's or whatever. They're not symmetrical.

a reply to: funbox

Talking about extremophiles: Curiosity monitored considerable spikes of methane on ground-level ...

Methane 'belches' detected on Mars

The US space agency's (Nasa) Curiosity rover has detected the intermittent "belching" of methane gas on Mars. The robot sees very low-level amounts constantly in the background, but it also has monitored a number of short-lived spikes that are 10 times higher.

Methane on the Red Planet is intriguing because here on Earth, 95% of the gas comes from microbial organisms. Researchers have hung on to the hope that the molecule's signature at Mars might also indicate a life presence.

The Curiosity team cannot identify the source of its methane, but the leading candidate is underground stores that are periodically disturbed.

Now, where exactly does the methane come from and what was the cause for it getting there? To find that out should be the next 'pressing issue' on the agenda ...

a reply to: jeep3r

if only they thought to pack a mic , we would be able to hear the little buggers chuckling and running away whilst holding their blue noses ..

well cant be anymore cryptic than that, underground stores? is that like saying there's either something rotting down there or something surviving underground, that's eating other things underground, digesting them, and relieving themselves for the spectrometers pleasure? what know geological process does this on mars?
shame they didn't drop up the data , sol times , frequency , strength , temperatures, etc

smells like the time bombs started ticking , pun intended



a reply to: Blue Shift

did you just say the word Symmetry ? *peers far out into the room* I smell trouble

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originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: jeep3r

if only they thought to pack a mic, we would be able to hear the little buggers chuckling and running away whilst holding their blue noses ...

Acoustic evidence, so to speak?

Well, I just hope that it doesn't require JPL's "2020 Mars Rover" with a brand new suite of precision instruments to get to the bottom of the methane mystery (although I'm afraid that we'll have to wait that long, unless MAVEN can somehow provide some additional insights) ...

originally posted by: jeep3r

originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: jeep3r

if only they thought to pack a mic, we would be able to hear the little buggers chuckling and running away whilst holding their blue noses ...

Acoustic evidence, so to speak?

Well, I just hope that it doesn't require JPL's "2020 Mars Rover" with a brand new suite of precision instruments to get to the bottom of the methane mystery (although I'm afraid that we'll have to wait that long, unless MAVEN can somehow provide some additional insights) ...

is Maven's resolution fine enough to pick up such localisations of flatulence ?

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I don't think so, and it's a completely different mission altogether ... just for a brief moment I was thinking it could perhaps contribute something to the methane question. But looking at the instrument list, I do have some doubts.

a reply to: jeep3r

maybe the last instrument on the list , Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) might do it, but im thinking its more for scooping of the upper atmosphere, unless they try a trick like them crazy cliff divers , swooping in low to capture a blue it fart

smash .. next anomaly to look at

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