Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014)

reply to post by Char-Lee

Yes, indeed.

It still requires a number of assumptions to arrive at the conclusion that life evolved beyond very primitive forms on Mars...without evidence...other than underground entrances to aboveground tunnels.

symptomoftheuniverse
Whats the time frame for those gifs?

It took me longer than I was expecting.

The image used on that GIF are:
ESP_027802_1685 - 01 July 2012 - Northern Summer


ESP_028501_1685 - 25 August 2012 - Northern Summer


ESP_029213_1685 - 19 October 2012 - Northern Autumn


ESP_029780_1685 - 02 December 2012 - Northern Autumn


ESP_030136_1685 - 30 December 2012 - Northern Autumn


ESP_030347_1685 - 16 January 2013 - Northern Autumn


ESP_030769_1685 - 18 February 2013 - Northern Autumn


ESP_031059_1685 - 12 March 2013 - Northern Winter


PS: I hope I haven't mixed the photos.

Source: SCIENCE IN MOTION - Look for the "RSL follow the sun in crater on Melas Chasm floor" section, it's 40 MB gif.

reply to post by ArMaP


well deconstructed there were quite a few frames in that gif, interesting pods top right I wonder if they have anything to do with the slides of matter ,



reply to post by Char-Lee


you think there was too much water? hmmm probably a little more than two %

funBox

Phage
reply to post by Char-Lee

 

See, it was a joke.
"Underground tunnel" as opposed to what?
Or, you could also see it as the entrance to the tunnel being underground.

Get it?

Ahhh I GET IT!! YES! I am so slow!

BTW on the matter of assumptions, we all make them, but I actually like them so i make more.

reply to post by Phage


I like this, it sounds as though the scientists are not sure of much either.

The new findings raise intriguing questions about the possibility of liquid water on present-day Mars, which has ties to the ongoing search for life on the Red Planet.

"It's certainly very surprising to me that this is happening on Mars today," McEwen said. "If it is water, that really changes our thinking of the planet's water cycle and habitability."

www.space.com...

reply to post by jeep3r


Wow, thanks... so cool you did this for us. Also posting so I can easily find this thread again.

Forgive me if someone has mentioned it already, but did you see that pic in a recent thread that looked like an Egyptian statue-head?

reply to post by new_here


ahoy there , indeed we did

there been a mini influx in the mast cam if your interested

unusual cracks appearing here ?



sol 535 mast

just to add

a weird thing from sol 535 mast (oddrock)



funBox

new_here
Forgive me if someone has mentioned it already, but did you see that pic in a recent thread that looked like an Egyptian statue-head?

Yes, I've seen it and think it was first spotted by BlackCat13 and visualized by funBox in this post before an entire thread came up on this topic.

It's one of the best face illusions I've seen up to this point, whereas IMO it's probably just a play of lights & shadows, especially since we only got that one pic & no other perspectives showing the same 'statue' under different lighting conditions ... but it does resemble a face when seen from that perspective.

reply to post by Char-Lee

Yeah. Very briney water. That shows up in the summer near the equator. If that's what it really is, it seems that there could be ice under the surface. And that does present the possibility of life in that ice. Though it would be slow life and I don't think it would make statues, it would probably be tiny. Like, really tiny. Like the bacteria found in ice in Antarctica perhaps.

reply to post by funbox

unusual cracks appearing here ?

Or marks from the arm. Scratching the surface?

reply to post by jeep3r

Dissection Survey of "Rocknest"
NASA Source File From;
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov...


Rocknest PIA-16452 at 13521X-1511Y Center Frame
Linear Ribs on Translucent Bulb-ish Curio with Rounded Shadow and Outline with Solid Grooved Base

files.abovetopsecret.com...



Rocknest PIA-16452 at 5157X, 1321Y Center Frame
Spokes & Hub Amid Rubble

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Rocknest PIA-16452 at 13485X, 1159Y Center Frame
Apparent Vertical Ribcage Processes and
Possible BlueHead Remains

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Rocknest PIA-16452 at 13097X, 537Y Center Frame
Apparent Roman Coliseum-Type Structure, Miles from MSL
Other Apparent Structures Elsewhere on Hillside

files.abovetopsecret.com...

Rocknest PIA-16453 13097X, 537Y Center Frame
Close-Up of Apparent Coliseum-esque Structure &
Possible Hangar/Garage Structure Directly Above It

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Rocknest PIA-16453 13051X,2838Y Center Frame
For Lack of Better Description, Appears as Clothes Dryer Lint or Spider Webs Cover the Rock Structures Left & Right of the
Rock Above... Zooming in Shows This Clearly.

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Rocknest PIA-16453 10787X, 1717Y Center Frame
Apparent Reflection of Surface Rocks
& Horizon Line in Silver/Chrome Wreckage,
Right of, and Below 90 Degree Angle Corner.

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Rocknest PIA-16453 10591X,609Y Center Frame
Apparent Arcing Structure of Piping/Tubing

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Rocknest PIA-16453 10511X, 875Y Center Frame
Trying to describe what is here...
Let's go with a huge "Trout Tower" Held
Vertical with Support Bracing.... Really? -WTF?

files.abovetopsecret.com...



Rocknest PIA-16453 9539X, 2444Y Center Frame
Possible Mars Vegetative Mushroom-esque Life Form?

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Rocknest PIA-16453 7429X, 2014Y Center Frame
Evidently, Wreckage, Debris and Structure Amid the Rocks...

files.abovetopsecret.com...



Rocknest PIA-16453 5666X, 2646Y Center Frame
Framework Covered by Cobweb-Type Covering,
... Possible Shelter?

files.abovetopsecret.com...



Rocknest PIA-16453 6081X, 2119Y Center Frame
Copper Patina Colored Debris... Remains?

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Rocknest PIA-16453 3647X, 2696Y Center Frame
Apparent Large Webbed Over Area...Is this the "Nest" from the Moniker "Rocknest"?

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Rocknest PIA-16453 3603X, 1108Y Center Frame
Apparent Rectangular Tilted Shelter?

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Rocknest PIA-16453 3201X, 1509Y Center Frame
Tripod with Silver Ball Atop

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Rocknest PIA-16453 2875X, 1766Y Center Frame
Elevated Object on Two Struts, Gray and White Trim, Reflective, Deep Detailed Relief on its Surface

files.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by jeep3r

Possible Life-Form
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NASA Source Image;
SOL 535 Mastcam: Left 2014-02-06 20:57:47 UTC
0535ML2116000000E1_DXXX
713X, 444Y Center Frame
Mar's Version of Fungi-on-a-Stick

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reply to post by BuzzDengue


hey Buzz ,wondered what had happened to you , should have guessed you was on the case like the new watermarks

have some interesting formations there , downloading the file now for a butchers , welcome back

funBox

reply to post by Phage


indeed you may have , I was looking at the fractal crack slippage, the darkened soil, another picture would tell us volumes about how quickly the sand Bleeches/drys? but , onward and forwards

funBox

BuzzDengue
Rocknest PIA-16453 13097X, 537Y Center Frame
Close-Up of Apparent Coliseum-esque Structure &
Possible Hangar/Garage Structure Directly Above It

files.abovetopsecret.com...

Where do you see something like that?

PS: please try to use the original photos instead of panoramas.

Phage
Or marks from the arm. Scratching the surface?

I don't think so, there's no sign of undisturbed darker soil.

reply to post by ArMaP


hopefully we'll know more when the next pictures come through, usually any operations done by the arm are photographed, or so it seems to me , unless nasa is now using it as a primitive club to move rocks out of the way

funBox

reply to post by funbox

Wow, interesting indeed! Looks like a 'flower-rock' if there were such a thing. Also (and I'm sure its been discussed at length) but the big rock to the left of it is quite interesting, with its 'layered' triangle look. Not sure why it makes me think of the Star Trek emblem on their uniforms...

reply to post by jeep3r

It's one of the best face illusions I've seen up to this point, whereas IMO it's probably just a play of lights & shadows, especially since we only got that one pic & no other perspectives showing the same 'statue' under different lighting conditions ... but it does resemble a face when seen from that perspective.

Thank you, I agree totally... impossible to prove yay or nay so natural to err on the side of 'caution' and see it as trick-of-the-light. One other thing... in the middle of that same pic is a straight-cut looking rock, and several surrounding pieces, that in my mind could be part of the base of a statue. Then again, I do have an illustrious imagination!

reply to post by BuzzDengue


Buzz, welcome back. We thought we lost you out there in the wilderness, and that you may have ridden a Martian Yorke up to Mount Sharp for a lookaround. On your newest pics the one I focus on is the spoke ("go with what you know" is my motto, which is why I still drink out of sippy cups and put my left shoe on my right foot), seemingly with a rim. But the distance from the camera is again a factor, so maybe these spokes are nonunique image artificats, people with a better grasp of pic analysis than my own can set me wrong at some point:


files.abovetopsecret.com...

Nice to see you here Phage, to keep funbox and Carla-Lee honest and working for the good of Man (and by Man I mean Martians). To be serious though, nobody here is seeing statues and temples, that's on the other thread. Here we know that the Egyptian face (discovered first on this thread btw) is a perspective image made up of three or four rocks.

The river scene, and river speculation, is interesting and worth a sit-back to observe.

funbox, I told you the check for your services is on that slow boat, from China, and even though my gps tracking tells me it still is in its dock in the Chinese harbor, your check is aboard and gathering dust. Patience, sir, patience.

The square rocks formations are kind of fun, geometrically, but seem to be regular cracking of the rocks on Mars - squares are the new unilliminati triangles.