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Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
Your 'logs' are just rocks. No offense, but that seems fairly clear to my eyes. I'm not sure where you are seeing trees, either, to be honest.
The 'water' (beri-watr pic) really does look like water, but notice that the rocks (or 'logs') are not visible beneath the 'surface' of the 'water'. If it was water, you would be able to see them; since rocks don't float, any rocks on the surface would have to extend downwards towards the bottom of the 'lake', obviously. Therefore, I conclude that the 'water' is some sort of mineral formation.
The little blue things are probably also rocks, although I don't know what geological process would produce a bunch of nearly uniformly sized & shaped rocks like that. Maybe a geologist will see this thread and explain; I can't.
The last two pics (marsshrubs and marsgreenspring) I cannot explain. I have no idea what I'm looking at in the 'shrub' one. I'm not even going to
guess what it is, but I don't think its shrubs.
Also, that website you got the pics from, I browsed around a bit. It's pretty weird, the author thinks alien lizards are responsible for everything from ethnic conflicts to drug trade.
(Methinks he/she has been taking drugs themselves :lol I would be extremely skeptical of anything he/she said and the validity of the pics,
although I do know that the very first link you posted is a legitimate pic, so I suspect the rest likely are real, too.
The pic with the 'log' I saw a few days ago on another thread. Someone was claiming it was a log, and there was a debate going on about it. Most people thought it was a rock, but some thought it looked like petrified wood. Like I said before, I'm pretty sure it's a rock.
Originally posted by rwatkins
I think the pictures are very interesting. But I have a couple of questions. In the blueberry picture, I see grooves where it looks possibly like tracks from the rover. Is that what it is? When I zoom in on the grooves the resolution deteriorates fast, and hard to tell if they have been flattened.
At space.com they are saying the blueberries are rocks known as "hematite concretions" and also form here on Earth. Giant Cousins of 'Mars Blueberries' in Utah
The polar pictures look like they are taken from the orbitor. I don't think trees will show up on pictures taken from orbit.
Originally posted by Irma
A more reasonable explanation for your images would be....Here's one when the sunlight reflects from the landers footprint......Here's a footprint on the fine dust/sand that earlier you were claiming was liquid water.
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
Oh man, you're killing my dial up connection. Can't you just post thumbnails or links?
Originally posted by Irma
Liz, don't holler cause I disagree with you.
LIFE ON MARS, SCIENTISTS SAY YES
European Space Agency scientists have said they think that there was and could still be life on Mars at the end of a one-week conference during which scientists from around the world discussed ESA's Mars mission findings so far.
After finding a 800 by 900 kilometres and at least 50 meters deep ice sea near Mars' equator, formed less than 5 million years ago and methane emerging from the same area, as well as and formaldehyde, Vittorio Formisano said: "Hints of life on Mars are getting stronger" and "Life is probably the only source that can produce so much methane" and The question is not any more, Was there life on Mars? The question is: Is there life on Mars today?"
Everett Gibson, from NASA's Johnson Space Centre, said he had held a poll among the 250 scientists at the conference. On the question whether they thought there had been life on Mars, 75 percent replied in the affirmative. Asked whether they believed there to be life now, 25 per cent said "yes". Asked what kind of life, Gibson said "bacterial".
ESA scientists want a new European mission to the ground of Mars to take samples.
Originally posted by Irma
Liz, don't holler cause I disagree with you.
I only say what I see and I see no water on Mars. Have a good dig around the NASA website and others for the hows/whys/whats etc of the pictures your claiming to show stuff for rational explanations. Please.
Originally posted by Meteor_of_War
You may find this of interest:
LIFE ON MARS, SCIENTISTS SAY YES
Everett Gibson, from NASA's Johnson Space Centre, said he had held a poll among the 250 scientists at the conference. On the question whether they thought there had been life on Mars, 75 percent replied in the affirmative. Asked whether they believed there to be life now, 25 per cent said "yes". Asked what kind of life, Gibson said "bacterial".
Source
[EDIT] More from that site, interesting read:
www.ufologie.net...
A lot of what's said on that site actually corroborates what lizardsamok is saying. It may still only be a theory, but it's worth considering.
[edit on 21/3/05 by Meteor_of_War]