Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014)

reply to post by AnomalysMonaLysa

At first I thought it was merely a crevice, but looking closer, the long black object, with its rounded edges and slightly reflective spots, looks like it could possibly be a rubber hose or even a snake!

At the bottom of the hill is another link like thing, I can't enlarge without blur.

solarsystem.nasa.gov...

reply to post by alienreality

that looks like ancient Sumerian script on a few rocks in a certain area of mars.. Yeah right..

Funny because I also feel i am seeing sculpture from that era, since they are broken into a million pieces kind of hard to prove though. The one area had parts with pipe shapes as connectors for the head and shoulder areas just like it would be done today. I have found 4 places so far that I believe contain shattered large statues that came from on top of the hills and several areas with broken pottery.

I find it interesting to look up earths oldest forms of writing, maybe some beings made it here from Mars as their planet was degrading so then we would find the oldest writing here on Mars. It would be near impossible for amateurs to recognise some of it as it looks like scratches!

www.bbc.com...
List at the bottom here
en.wikipedia.org...

reply to post by AnomalysMonaLysa


The cable looking object you circled goes through where i highlighted it seems in the crack in the ground



This is also from that spot...let us presume for a moment these were people with an ability to manipulate and bend stone, or have some type of metal that CAN hold up under the conditions on Mars. Anyway weird if all this is stone.

Did you notice the notch in this stone? The whole stone seems so shaped.

Blue Shift

ArMaP
That area that looks like the result of some liquid flow covers more than one photo, so here's the whole area.

I hate to say that I think sometimes the dust gets powdery enough and small enough that it "flows" like water, scooping out some areas. And then once it slides down it loses some of its cohesion and blows away in the wind. So you get areas that look like water flows, but it's really just dust flows.

I also tend to see water flows as leaving a lump of mud or something at the bottom that's actually more solid and resilient than a dust lump. I don't see any mud ball remnants at the bottoms of these flows.

Looks like water to me and then it went into a crack possibly.

Char-Lee
Did you notice the notch in this stone? The whole stone seems so shaped.

If I didn't know it was on Mars I'd say it was a native stone-axe or digger. If an axe it would have been twined around a piece of wood. Not much evidence of wood on Mars, lots of evidence for stone!

And on you water-flow picture, why would the dust flow in such a wavy track, and so deep (it looks pretty deep). And have that hitch right in the middle.

Aleister
reply to post by alienreality

 

Here's a link to a thread on Char-Lee's skunk-marsmal find in the same picture as the "wrench" (and I never noticed the top rod on it, thanks for pointing that out), and the thread has some links to several other threads about the wrench and the photo that it's in.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

And two links to other threads about that photo from Jeep, in this post:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Apparantly it's the or one of the most studied Mars photos, and yet nobody had seen the little creature-rock that Char-Lee found, with the broken pixels (one of which made a perfect eye for her marscreature). The image isn't from Curiosity, I think it's from Spirit.

edit on 31-3-2014 by Aleister because: (no reason given)

Or it just seems to be one of the broken pixels :-) I still have faith in the lil guy!

reply to post by AnomalysMonaLysa


See there how we all see so different!

Cute little rat thingee, even if he's not real.

I saw a ram headed demon where you saw cute!!

AHHH just reread you saw

laser-eyed bird critter/statue/rock formation.

on my demon!

Char-Lee

Blue Shift

ArMaP
That area that looks like the result of some liquid flow covers more than one photo, so here's the whole area.

I hate to say that I think sometimes the dust gets powdery enough and small enough that it "flows" like water, scooping out some areas. And then once it slides down it loses some of its cohesion and blows away in the wind. So you get areas that look like water flows, but it's really just dust flows.

I also tend to see water flows as leaving a lump of mud or something at the bottom that's actually more solid and resilient than a dust lump. I don't see any mud ball remnants at the bottoms of these flows.

Looks like water to me and then it went into a crack possibly.

Some "lookey-see" analysis. Maybe the water (I'll stick with water, I don't know if sand would fit this scenario) was flowing, and then hit a buried rock. What we see in the middle of that picture is the path the water took as it spilled over that rock, went up the other side on the right a little, and then started cutting the path again to continue its flow. Does this seem in the ballpark to other people laying eyes on the picture?

reply to post by Aleister

Does this seem in the ballpark to other people laying eyes on the picture?

I agree with you, I don't think the pushed up soil could have been wind and your idea seems reasonable to me.

Char-Lee
reply to post by Aleister

 

Does this seem in the ballpark to other people laying eyes on the picture?

I agree with you, I don't think the pushed up soil could have been wind and your idea seems reasonable to me.

Thanks. And looking at it even more it could be that the water actually backed up a little ways in the direction it was coming from. See the rounded area just to the right and in back of the middle section, it could have backed up in there (and pushed up a little hill of sand on the left) as it was cutting its way into a new channel.

Aleister any idea why some of the links you posted on this page www.abovetopsecret.com... have been 404'd?

reply to post by symptomoftheuniverse


there were two. the first one was a thread I put up on the mars skeleton, which turned out to be an image artifact (or did it???). the second one seems to be to an airplane-on-mars thread, which I assume was just stupid (I linked it because we try to link all the mars threads into this one, but I have no memory of it). My "skeleton" find that I thought might be real:

still looks real, but,,,,nah.....?

If anyone is interested, here is another panorama, this one from Sol 571.

ArMaP
If anyone is interested, here is another panorama, this one from Sol 571.

thanks, nice work. The War of the Worlds shadows in the left hand bottom corner are very scary, showing that both H.G. Wells and H.G. Lovecraft were right. ..... and parts of the Rover look dustier than I thought, but not serious dust, so.... a question if you know.... what keeps the dust from messing with the camera lenses? Do they self-clean? Or window wipers may do the job.

Aleister
thanks, nice work. The War of the Worlds shadows in the left hand bottom corner are very scary, showing that both H.G. Wells and H.G. Lovecraft were right. ..... and parts of the Rover look dustier than I thought, but not serious dust, so.... a question if you know.... what keeps the dust from messing with the camera lenses? Do they self-clean? Or window wipers may do the job.

H. P. Lovecraft.

I think I read somewhere that the cameras have lens covers, but I'm not sure.

ArMaP

Aleister
thanks, nice work. The War of the Worlds shadows in the left hand bottom corner are very scary, showing that both H.G. Wells and H.G. Lovecraft were right. ..... and parts of the Rover look dustier than I thought, but not serious dust, so.... a question if you know.... what keeps the dust from messing with the camera lenses? Do they self-clean? Or window wipers may do the job.

H. P. Lovecraft.

I think I read somewhere that the cameras have lens covers, but I'm not sure.

Ha, did you fall for the H.P. Lovecraft myth. H.G. Lovecraft is the guy I'm talking about, H.P. younger brother, who wrote stories of faith, hope, and love, and things crawling out of the sea who were just so cute that you had to hug them.

Lens covers, duh. So before a pic is taken the cover goes up (or down) and is then put back into place after the pics are over and for the nighttime layovers. Thanks for the info (you at least talk to me, Jesse V., ignores me like a dog with cat fleas)

ArMaP
If anyone is interested, here is another panorama, this one from Sol 571.

nice one armap,seems to be a circular feature top rightish of the wheel tracks.

Any idea why those threads god 404'd

Some teeth (gear?) At 6 mars.jpl.nasa.gov...
These latest closeups have lots of stuff embedded in them.

I've been staring at this, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It looks fibrous, like hair. Not like sand. I don't know.

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...