What could this be in the Mars rover image

Here’s one for you all to ponder over.
What could this be?
It was infront of the front left hazard avoidance cam.

Is it something that came off the rover?
Is Mars already littered enough by us that past mission trash is blowing around the planet and ending up in rover images?

Is it… organic?
It looks like a ball of loose string to me.

Mast cam image

a reply to: Macenroe82

My first impression was organic... like some type of weed (perhaps)? (Pareidolia - Mine).


It's cool though, and I can see how some wound up yarn or string could fit in that X-Category too.

Johnny

a reply to: Macenroe82

A similar looking thing they posited was some of the wiring sheath, but I thought it was some kind of metallic sheath not fabric. Perhaps there was fabric under the metal sheath and now that the metal sheath is damaged and the fabric is getting removed?

It looks somewhat similar to fire retardant materials I've seen used for engine compartment tubing. I take that back, I'm specifically thinking of a woven fiber gasket from wood stoves, but similar. Heat resistant.

Looks like Mars crispy asian rice noodles.

Probably more earth trash.

Good catch.

originally posted by: JohnnyAnonymous
... some type of weed (perhaps)? (Paradohlia - Mine). ...

Yeah : we sometimes see the things we desire.

Don't worry : Saturday night is just around the corner...

( Just-teasing. Hi-hi-hi.)

If it is from us : then perhaps some kind of shaving from the sheath of a cable, or hydraulic tube ??

On Mars : would the shaving from, say a black plastic cable sheath, stay black for long, or would the plastic quickly loose it's coloring ?

a reply to: Macenroe82

Alien floss ?

a reply to: Macenroe82
It looks biological.

Looks like Mars had a prison break and the convict took some Ramen noodles with em .

a reply to: Macenroe82

Looks freshly deposited above the windblown sand, so logic dictates that this is unfortunately just some string that came off the rover.

a reply to: Macenroe82

Martian pubes.

a reply to: JohnnyAnonymous

It sure looks organic, doesn't it?

Here's a video of the parachute and part of the landing rocket that rover just drove by lately.



just in case that didn't work.

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I hope we get an explanation as to what it is.

At first glance it had me thinking along the same lines as Johnny mentioned, some sort of weed or root system.
But when I zoomed in closer, it seemed to fibrous to me, so I figured some sort of string.
Or maybe bunched up paracord that finally came loose?

Here's another video to help out.

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originally posted by: TheAlleghenyGentleman
Looks like Mars crispy asian rice noodles.

Probably more earth trash.

Good catch.

Darn, the Chinese beat us to Mars.

That is an unraveled rope a reply to: Macenroe82

The official explanation thus far is some debris from its landing.

And they used the example of the thermal blanket that was spotted in a photo not long ago - then that piece of thermal blanket was missing from a photo taken shortly after.
Meaning the winds on Mars is carrying around garbage and were photographing it.

a reply to: Macenroe82
That "string"certainly doesn't look like anything else I have seen on Mars.
I hope that if NASA don't think its from the rover they could maybe try to snag a bit of it into one of their sample tubes for later examination.

The "rock" on the left of the pic looks like a chunk of petrified wood-you can see what looks like tree rings and it even appears to have the remains of a small branch on the right hand side.

Probably just a rock though I know

Here's a video with the Flotsam in it.