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Aleister
Here's an informed post on the original Spine thread, by a former lunar cartographer:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Reply by Rimjaja
As someone who works with spines on a daily basis, the first pics truly look like articulated bones, complete with spiny processes and facet joints. I can write off some of the other pics as wishful thinking, but I don't know what else the first photo could be other than skeletal remains.
jeep3r
Aleister
Here's an informed post on the original Spine thread, by a former lunar cartographer:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Thanks for referencing those posts, Aleister! Here's one of the replies you linked, taken from Arken's original thread:
Reply by Rimjaja
As someone who works with spines on a daily basis, the first pics truly look like articulated bones, complete with spiny processes and facet joints. I can write off some of the other pics as wishful thinking, but I don't know what else the first photo could be other than skeletal remains.
Spine or not, ventifact or not: when looking at all of the images in this thread's OP, we should appreciate the amount of pronounced shapes featuring a variety of regular and repetitive elements.
IMO it would be too much of a generalization to say it's all natural without looking closer and putting all of it into perspective. Also, let's not forget that Curiosity was located very close to those features over an extended period of time. Taking high resolution images of these formations wouldn't have delayed the mission or put the rover at risk in any way, but might have provided 100% certainty about whether it's just rocks or not.edit on 5-1-2014 by jeep3r because: text
wmd_2008
YET you cannot look closer by making the classic mistake that some people base their threads on zoomed in images which show NO MORE DETAIL .
There are many pictures of ventifacts on Earth with repeating features here is one
Ventifact Cliff
Imagine how that may look when the cliff face breaks up. The ROCK that looks like a spine could quite easily be a larger rock with holes through it that broke up.
jeep3r
reply to post by BuzzDengue
Is this the image you're talking about in your post?
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...
Checked some of the coordinates you indicated but didn't see anything out of the ordinary at first glance. In case I missed it, could you perhaps post a snapshot instead of coordinates?