MARS Anomaly: Can anyone shed some light on this picture?

originally posted by: intergalactic fire
a reply to: fromtheskydown

Blown out highlights that just happens to take the shape of a rectangle? There are more of those in the picture (bright whites), probably different types of material within the rock that gives of a bright reflection.

Here is a crop with the highlight slider put at min and shadows at max. It reveals a little more detail

Common trail marker

a reply to: fromtheskydown

I must've been looking at the wrong place, I was looking at the rock that looks like the deep sea viper fish (middle left.)

As for the item of interest ill take a shot in the dark and I dare say that it could be ice crystals and if I'm right that could hint at a stronger atmosphere than previously thought, Or I could be wrong and it's just a camera processing anomaly. I'm backing the former because in many cases i'm more wrong than not. But in most cases i'm right so now i'm confused.

a reply to: Vroomfondel

I inverted the colors and zoomed in real close on the rectangle and the white pixels on the bottom half of the rectangle are darker than the white pixels on the top half. They all look bright white in the picture because it`s a black and white picture.
if it was a color picture we would probably be able to see that the bottom half of the triangle is less white than the top,and the top is less white than what it appears to be in the picture.

I looked for a mast cam color picture of that rock but there doesn`t seem to be one.

I believe the white in the original picture is made up of the same material we see in other pictures from the same area.
These are some of sol1668 mastcam images.


It also looks like this rock has the same eroded features except it's not the same white material.

Could be a mix of both?

a reply to: SeaWorthy

To it being a trail-marker doesn't there has to be a somewhat (visible) trail in the first place?

But you're probably right, it's a Mnt. Conner trail mark.

a reply to: Tardacus

Nice. I played with the color scale a bit but it didn't do much.

What has me most intrigued is the symmetry of the anomaly. It seems to be very rectangular and the mark on it is fairly centered. Its unusual contrast to the surrounding landscape combined with what seems like manufactured symmetry make this very interesting to me.

a reply to: Vroomfondel

there`s always the possibility that it`s a piece of debris from one of the many probes and landers sent to mars that disappeared or crashed.

if I remember correctly there were about 8-10 probes/landers sent from various countries to mars that either broke apart or they lost contact with them as they orbited the planet or tried to land on the planet.

Nice find, no idea what that could be but it's very interesting to show up in 2 pics, sort of rules out artifacts I would think.
Also, Those pictures look like a dried up ocean floor.

a reply to: fromtheskydown

nice find mate

originally posted by: Vroomfondel
a reply to: Tardacus

Nice. I played with the color scale a bit but it didn't do much.

What has me most intrigued is the symmetry of the anomaly. It seems to be very rectangular and the mark on it is fairly centered. Its unusual contrast to the surrounding landscape combined with what seems like manufactured symmetry make this very interesting to me.

Yes, the shape is a real puzzler to me as well...but maybe we are not seeing the outline with enough accuracy to make an informed judgement. I tried with my enhanced picture but even though it stll looks an unnatural formation, there just isn't enough detail to be completely sure.



The four corners appear rounded to me, which in itself says it is not a natural occurrence, but are we seeing an accurate representation? I guess it is all subjective, in the end.

Always do a reverse image lookup using google. There are some Web posts about this image.

01669/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_545660377EDR_F0621080NCAM00252M_.JPG
01669/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_545660346EDR_F0621080NCAM00252M_.JPG

The suffixes of both image URLs are very similar. I wonder if these two images are actually cropped from the original, each version of which shows either more detail to the left (pic#1), or to the right (pic#2), yet both overlap in the middle, therefore the image artifact is showing up in both images.

space debris survivor? space junk around mars

Space junk in orbit is bad enough, but on Mars?
by Jeff Foust — April 18, 2017
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originally posted by: fockewulf190
01669/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_545660377EDR_F0621080NCAM00252M_.JPG
01669/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_545660346EDR_F0621080NCAM00252M_.JPG

The suffixes of both image URLs are very similar. I wonder if these two images are actually cropped from the original, each version of which shows either more detail to the left (pic#1), or to the right (pic#2), yet both overlap in the middle, therefore the image artifact is showing up in both images.

I think they are consecutive images taken by the Mars Rover as it pans the camera around.

originally posted by: Wolfenz
space debris survivor? space junk around mars

Space junk in orbit is bad enough, but on Mars?
by Jeff Foust — April 18, 2017
- See more at: spacenews.com...
spacenews.com...

Somebody muted this possibility, earlier in the thread.
I suppose it could be,,,but will we ever find out?

Has anyone heard of Devon Island?
It is the largest uninhabited island on Earth. Located in northern Canada.
Google "Devon Island NASA"
Enjoy.

IMO....it's a location reflective marker for the cut section next to it......a cut out square looking timber frame style......in that pic on page three or so.....by Sublimecraft.....

I was just thinking the same thing, It does resemble a blurred maple leaf on the anomaly. and the mesa looking mountain resembles topography found on Devon Island. a reply to: Agent008

I haven't read through the whole thread yet to see if anyone else saw this, but to me it looks like an old school fire extinguisher strapped to a rock.

a reply to: Vroomfondel

Excellent work, but that made the anomaly look even more unnatural to me.

What the hell is that thing?