Mars - 2016 pictures

I was recently looking at a few Mars pictures, namely the recent strange looking rock towers when I stumbled across a couple of older images where I noticed an anomaly (or two)

Apologies if these images have been discussed previously but I don't believe they have.

mars.nasa.gov...

It's the 2nd & the 5th picture that I'm focusing on.

Sorry I can't crop & post what I'm trying to point out but the seems to be an object hovering/flying in the sky.

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In that first image,slightly left of center,bottom of picture there is a really weird 3 sided rectangular pipe like structure.
That really stood out as different.

This is the image-
mars.nasa.gov...

Could you please embed the 2nd & 5th picture to this thread.

I'm useless with technology & can't figure out how to do it!

originally posted by: I know it all...
It's the 2nd & the 5th picture that I'm focusing on.

Sorry I can't crop & post what I'm trying to point out but the seems to be an object hovering/flying in the sky.

Sorry I think I may have solved this as a dead pixel on the cameras CCD.

If you open both images in different tabs on your browser,you can switch between them and see that the dot in the sky is in the exact same place in the frame-even though the shot has changed,therefore it is something within the camera rather than external.

mars.nasa.gov...

mars.nasa.gov...


That pipe shape I mentioned looks like something manufactured to me though,maybe part of an old soviet probe,or a 5 billion year old pipe from some long dead martians kitchen sink.

originally posted by: I know it all...
It's the 2nd & the 5th picture that I'm focusing on.

Sorry I can't crop & post what I'm trying to point out but the seems to be an object hovering/flying in the sky.

Here ya go...







Hope that helps

You may be right. Thanks for linking the pictures.

But it looks like the "dot" is dead center in the first picture you linked & it's on the far right to the left on the rock formation on the second picture.

I'd tried to download them from the original to see if the quality is any better to enlarge but NASA seem to have removed them.

Thanks 👍

originally posted by: Sookiechacha

originally posted by: I know it all...
It's the 2nd & the 5th picture that I'm focusing on.

Sorry I can't crop & post what I'm trying to point out but the seems to be an object hovering/flying in the sky.

Here ya go...

Hope that helps

a reply to: I know it all...

There's the same anomaly in this gigapan.
viewer.gigamacro.com...

a reply to: Sookiechacha

That's really weird.

It's like the object is stationary, that surely can't be a fault on the camera can it?

a reply to: Sookiechacha
Thats interesting-If we can find out if the gigapan image uses the same camera source,then its definitely an image artefact.

If not-Its defintely something in the sky of Mars.

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If it was an artifact, and I'm not saying it isn't, wouldn't it be repeated in the stitched picture?

I had a link to a really nice gigapan of that area, but I can't get it to open anymore. www.gigapan.com...

a reply to: Sookiechacha
Im not sure as the rover has different cameras,so its possible the images we see in the gigapan are using different cameras.
But if they use the same camera we should be seeing it on the gigapan.

I also noticed in this image
mars.nasa.gov...

There is a second,fainter something if you trace a line in a south west directon(if North is straght up).
But that does not appear in the other picture.

a reply to: Sookiechacha

Yes, surely it should show up multiple times on the stitched together gigapan if it were a fault with camera/lens.

It's a head scratcher 🤔

What's the other alternative, a moon, a planet?

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There is a second,fainter something if you trace a line in a south west directon(if North is straght up).
But that does not appear in the other picture.

Oh yeah!



Curious.

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There is a second,fainter something if you trace a line in a south west directon(if North is straght up).
But that does not appear in the other picture.




I noticed that too 👍

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
If it was an artifact, and I'm not saying it isn't, wouldn't it be repeated in the stitched picture?

Maybe, maybe not, it depends on which photos the panorama making software decides to choose.

Sometimes, panorama-making software is used to remove unwanted objects from photos: we give it several photos, the software "sees" what appears in some photos and not in others and uses the parts without those things to create an image free of unwanted objects.

And yes, one of the panoramic mast cameras developed a dead pixel, and I think the other also had one some time after.

Here's one of the photos.
Link

Another one.
Link

If you take those two photos and superimposed them on an image editor you can see that the dark spots are exactly in the same place.

The other three photos on that page:
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5