Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014)

a reply to: Aleister

I'm not sure I understand what you want, is it this?

originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: Aleister

I'm not sure I understand what you want, is it this?

Yes, the website link where new Mars images are uploaded. Thanks. I'll link it to the ! in Mars Rocks! in my sig, so I can get back to exploring again (I'll take a gallon of water and some nutri-bars along for sustenance). Thanks for the link, although I have seen it I can never remember how to get there.

a reply to: this thread

Just came across the MSL Extended Mission Plan (PDF), published on the MSL homepage. Here goes an excerpt that I found quite interesting:




I'm not quite sure what their definition of 'preserved organics' refers to: (1) the fossilized preservation of past life, (2) the preservation of extant organics or (3) the detection of the chemical building blocks of past life within the clays or sulfates?

Whatever the case, the paper above indicates that the geological waypoints at 6km and 8km are most significant from a scientific point of view. Just thought this was worth sharing and I wonder what Curiosity's going to stumple upon on her path up to Mount Sharp!

a reply to: jeep3r

That's why I have been waiting for Curiosity to reach that area, it looks even more interesting (even if only from a geological point of view) than what we have seen so far.

a reply to: Aleister

Thanks. Old skeleton was a fun one. I don't have any idea if NASA airbrushed any of the Mars pics, my personal guess would be no, but that's without knowing for sure.

No need all they do is keep the picture out of focus enough to drive you crazy until you can't look anymore!

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...
Dozens of things in this pic look like earth beach shells I marked a few, we even get a pearl:-)


Soon my slow season will arrive if it ever starts raining and I will probably get hooked on looking at Mars again...so addictive.

a reply to: Char-Lee


mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Ruins of the Lost Martian Sphinx of Viracocha:
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Interesting rock from Sol 739:

Source Image

Are those just light colored pebbles/minerals? Or could it be something like this:

01. Fossils in Sedimentary Rock
02. Fossilized Coral
03. Fossils in a Beach Wall

Interesting woven pattern:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Round things:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...


Roots:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Plastic rock:
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Has this one ben posted? weird rock It looks like a birds nest or something.

a reply to: alienjuggalo

Interesting find, looks like intertwined branches or veins of some sort.

And here's the source image for the feature you cropped in the above post (it has become kind of a habit to generally link to the original image).

a reply to: jeep3r

branches , veins , roots ?



sol 746

the search for water in action? or just a flaccid rock ? ;D

funbox

originally posted by: funbox
branches , veins , roots ?

I think it's interesting that there seems to be more than one. See the other one on the left? Again, curious half-circle things.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

a reply to: Blue Shift

And from the same picture, in the right top corner, there is a structure with 2 holes on each side, with something like a "flat bone" passing just in between.

a reply to: Blue Shift

trust you to find the hidden wally , spotted, maybe they're twins ;D



a reply to: NowanKenubi

are you referring to spiral thing illustrated ?

funbox

a reply to: funbox

No, I meant the real top corner of the picture, lol.
Sorry, I didn't take the time to put a cropped pic of it last night, but here it is now.



It looks almost like an African mask.

Right navcam, sol 751 mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

I didn't count, but they took dozens of photos of this or other lines. I don't know if this is microscopic or is actually a larger anomaly. Lines of a feather flock together,

a reply to: Aleister

Is there a bigger image of this? The one I see is about a centimeter wide... And I cant' find anything on NASA's site... lol