Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014)

reply to post by funbox

some of them rocks must be like diamonds

Yes I find it interesting to see areas that look like normal ground and yet the rover leaves off making tracks so it is indeed very solid even though it looks like dust and rocks.

This latest picture (reef looking) looks like young lava like Hawaii and yet...

Interestingly they are calling this area sandstone

Boulder formation in the hyper-arid region of the southern Negev, Israel, is a major process in landscape evolution and has implications on the seismic activity along the adjacent southern Dead Sea fault zone. A preliminary study (EPSL, v. 240, p. 803-817. 2005) shows the feasibility of dating these boulders with cosmogenic isotopes and constructing a temporal framework for their formation with implications to recurrence interval of large earthquakes and long-term landscape evolution. This project is done by master student Yair Rinat.

earth.huji.ac.il...

reply to post by Char-Lee


that picture looks a little like blue it ridge... kind of

but I did find it , at last .. only took an hour or so



mahli needs to get into that rock

funBox

funbox
reply to post by Char-Lee

 

that picture looks a little like blue it ridge... kind of

but I did find it , at last .. only took an hour or so

mahli needs to get into that rock

funBox

Again, a nice find. We should have a bell to ring each time something maybe-important is found, and today seems to have brought a couple of more really good finds.

Here's a JPL page on the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imaginer, I think):

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

reply to post by Blue Shift


There are a number of things I think look interesting in the area you found the shinny thing.

reply to post by Aleister


you wouldn't think it was from the links description, all I see these days are shredded wheels , my favourite camera too :/

having flashback of Oliver hardy in 'saps at sea', where he worked in the horn factory.. same but different

funBox

reply to post by Aleister


Hum the lense is

self-focusing

Sometimes I think it may need a little kick maybe dust stuck it all up!

reply to post by Char-Lee


dust is a knightmare for cameras , hopefully these are all well sealed

eone of these looks a bit like a cowbell



funBox

funbox
reply to post by Char-Lee

 

dust is a knightmare for cameras , hopefully these are all well sealed

someone of these looks a bit like a cowbell

funBox

LOVE the animation...!

All of those items match the look of earth known shell types..:-) i know I know...

reply to post by Char-Lee


even the cowbell ?



funBox

Char-Lee

 

A lot of these areas do remind me of dead coral reefs and sponges.

That's pretty exactly what came to my mind, too ... thanks for posting these pics!

There must be an influx of new images coming very soon, so let's keep our fingers crossed that we'll find something that fits to the scenery shown above!

Fun with rocks.


Direct - files.abovetopsecret.com...


Direct - files.abovetopsecret.com...


Direct - files.abovetopsecret.com...

So much for them never being close enough:

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

reply to post by Blue Shift


What are we looking at here? Is that a JPL rover close up of the object you found yesterday, or something else?

reply to post by Justwatchingyou


Good find. With just a slight change of perspective it looks a little but not quite like the mause found a few days ago, only getting up and walking.

Went to grab this pic, and darn if this doesn't look like a real mouse:




Yours is a very good optical illusion or something, but for lifeform, look for tracks behind or in front or on the side of it. Tracks of something in the sand near one of these things would be the holy grail of present-living forms on Mars, which seem very far-fetched but can't count them out. Applause and geese to you, good sir.

reply to post by Aleister


I do see what you're talking about and had seen the "mouse" in the earlier posting.
That one doesn't really call to me...There is one you should check out called BATMAN in the earlier
postings...That one is very interesting and it has what i can only describe trunk much like an elephant or anteater up over its head.

You should check that one out.

reply to post by Aleister


Aleister also check this one out..



Please only use this image a reference for where I want you to look..
What is that? I'm guessing just a rock.
I figure it's an anomaly of the photo as I can see it repeated now..just weird..

USE IMAGE ABOVE TO LOOK HERE - photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov...

reply to post by Justwatchingyou


Are you talking about that line in the sky? It's a little difficult (at least for me) to understand what you mean with your post.

If it's the line, it doesn't appear in the original photo and, seeing that it's parallel to the side of the photo, it's probably an artefact of the making of the panorama.

reply to post by ArMaP


Ok, so it is just an image anomaly.
I like that image though...Feels very bright.
I like the stars in the sky in the image.

Aleister
What are we looking at here? Is that a JPL rover close up of the object you found yesterday, or something else?

Something else, from Sol 574 by the Chemistry Cam.

This is what I mean by something that looks a little like it could have once been a living thing.