Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (2015)

originally posted by: ArMaP
I don't think so, I think water would be enough to create those formations.

Maybe an uneven loss of subsurface ground water. Like when a house tips off its foundation because the ground loses its water and compresses. It's just interesting to me to look at this landscape and have no idea how old it actually is. On Earth, we can at least get a kind of rough idea. I'm still thinking that it's not billions of years old. It just doesn't seem worn down enough.

Just an interesting shape, suggesting a root or flow.

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

a reply to: Blue Shift

seems to be lots of pinching on that piece .. what does that signify?

funbox

the depth of stratification is so varied , it's almost like im looking at stone works



mast sol 993

obviously not strong enough

funbox

originally posted by: Blue Shift
Broken off claw. Very small.

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Interesting area, I like the twisted looking thing to the left of yours.

a reply to: Char-Lee

looks good enough to crack open a bottle of wine with , is there a cork somewhere ?

funbox

one of these things is not like the other things



but why?

mast 998

funbox

hi guys,

few strange "items"/rocks on this one...

sol992

a reply to: MarioOnTheFly

ahh, trouble maker

interesting finds , some interesting angles on that partially buried thing *2nd one " , seems to blend in almost unnaturally with the sand bank

funbox

The 'fork'
Original

Metal can erode showing this pattern. The stone does not. ))) My guess, its something metal.




DO.

they should have tap it with robotic arm and see what happens then probe it.



DO.

a reply to: funbox

ahh, trouble maker

I'll take that as a compliment

*2nd one " , seems to blend in almost unnaturally with the sand bank

my thought exactly. Looks like it's sticking out...perhaps a larger construct underneath the sand.

originally posted by: darkorange
The stone does not.

Are you sure?

a reply to: ArMaP

indeed...I've seen some very weird sharp, pointy stones...carved by the relentless sea that keeps on pounding.

a reply to: darkorange

PINGGGGG , or a very thin raspy PINGGGGG

shame there no mic to find out


a reply to: MarioOnTheFly

of course

that patterning on the rock the one that's just in front of the one jutting out of the sand .. ive seen something similar .. one mo

funbox

a reply to: Char-Lee

I knew there was something bugging me about that picture



they must all be fond of a tipple up there

funbox

a reply to: ArMaP

they do ArMaP , but this is very very local erosion , if that is what it is . that piece can only be a few centimetres across.

so which elements of the erosion process carved out those fine gaps in the rock ? the wind, picking and choosing ? , decided it was going to carve a fork shape , got bored of making ,eggs, it tunnels, and the like ?

funbox

originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: Char-Lee

I knew there was something bugging me about that picture

they must all be fond of a tipple up there

funbox

excellent. Hollow pipe ? plastic cup ?

a reply to: MarioOnTheFly

yeas , I remember the suggestion now , but as I look the feint lines that seem to traverse it horizontally, now give me the impression of a spiral

akin almost to MrShifts , thingymejigg figure of eight thing

funbox

originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: Char-Lee

I knew there was something bugging me about that picture

they must all be fond of a tipple up there

funbox

Yes I have this one saved as I feel it is liquid, remember most thought it was a plastic cup?:-)
that was a great thread!