Cool Find...Petrified Tree Spotted On Mars?

didn't even know such thing as "petrified tree" existed at all until today...LoL.

a reply to: Blue Shift

Something like that does seem to happen...whether it does or not, I certainly don't know, but odd things do seem to happen at long intervals like that.

a reply to: Eby88

Petrified Forest.

If you ever get the chance to go...you'll not regret it. Spectacular doesn't begin to describe it. At night, under a full moon, or at dawn...Just wow.

a reply to: markosity1973

True...thanks for correcting me. The photographers called these "petrified" and I failed to realize they in fact were "lone" dead trees.

a reply to: seagull

Knew they were heavy, but didn't realize just how hard they were!

How hard is petrified wood? Very hard: petrified wood rates between 7 and 8 on Mohs Hardness Scale, with talc at 1 and diamonds at 10.

www.nps.gov...

It looks like one of those flat rock slabs sticking out almost upright, we're just looking at it edge-on. So it's really the same kind of object as the flat rock to the right of it.

Here it is from a slightly different angle: mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

It could be a Tufa Tower?
That area was supposedly once underwater.

How long ago did Mars have a dense enough atmosphere for a tree?

Let's get real.

originally posted by: shawmanfromny
Cool Find...Petrified Tree Spotted On Mars?

Probably not.
More accurately stated;
"Cool Find... something that looks like a petrified tree, to me, spotted on Mars."

Interesting...

very cool find. one thing that strikes me about that picture is just how much destruction is on display. look at those rocks and boulders with their layers of strata. all going in different directions from one boulder to the next like they were just tossed out their by a giant. hopefully they give this a closer look with the rover.

I am going with its most likely a rock as well. Always fun though. ~$heopleNation

I can see a face on it.

About a third the way up, slightly to the left.

a reply to: Eby88

They dont exist according to the agenda to bury the past .

Like, a vertical fossil spanning millions of years of wavelike sedimentary layers which magically stratified..

Polystratum fossils don't exist! Lol. But dead animals sit around for millions of years to be fossilized and trapped under millions of years of dust! Nope, no wave action trapping them in mud. Just millions of year of dust, lol, and magical bones that stick around, unlike any dead animal I've seen.

originally posted by: FlyingFox
How long ago did Mars have a dense enough atmosphere for a tree?

Let's get real.

If we take evolution of life on Earth as the model, Mars hardly had dense atmosphere long enough for single-celled (and perhas some primitive multicelled) organisms to appear. Certainly not forests of trees and land animals.

originally posted by: shlaw
Not adding to my opinion it's a rock, (note-opinion)
but I noticed there is a suggestion of a man or woman
reaching for a sword. maybe it's statue!
sorry for using paint to highlight. I was being lazy.
see original pic by OP and it will jump right out.

That looks like a queen flipping a bird to the rover. Awesome.

a reply to: shawmanfromny


Strange when people make claims about things on Mars there is only one of each object if Mars had trees whats the chance of only evidence of one same with all the other claimed objects/animals.

a reply to: BigBangWasAnEcho

"polystrate fossils " only exist in the delusions of creationist wingnuts


but hey - feel free to cite the location of a " real one "

a reply to: wildespace

it amazers me - that people " see " trees , animals , buildings etc etc addum finitum

but none comment on the fact that the pic shows apparent sedimentary rocks