Curiosity: Potential Anomalies (Update 01/2014)

a reply to: BuzzDengue

intriguing the shopkeeper returns

where you been frood ? to take a closer look perchance ?

welcome back

funbox

a reply to: BuzzDengue

At this point, there's just the thumbnail available in the archives. I think I know why you think it's kind of interesting but it's difficult to make out details on the heavily enlarged thumbnail.

We'll soon have access to the full image. Then we can probably tell whether or not the surface details & textures differ from other rocks in that area ...

a reply to: jeep3r

I wonder how many of the previous sub framers we've discussed have come through , im sure I remember a couple from three months back , sadly I cant remembers any details, its been that long , when I have the time ill try going on a hunt for them , probably in vain ,.. maybe theres a pattern waiting to emerge, where all the interesting subframers never got downloaded

a laboriously mammoth task im not going to attempt to investigate

funBox

a reply to: funbox

Which makes it interesting to once again sift through the archives, I also recall a few promising thumbnails that only got uploaded in fullsize weeks or months later ... probably due to some internal priorities defined by the JPL guys. Priorities for imagery that's not directly related to navigation, mission objectives, science goals etc., me thinks.

And then, I also believe there could be imagery out there that we don't even get to see. But of course I cannot prove that point of mine, so for now I guess we're bound to analyze what we find in the archives.

But good luck with your search, I'm sure there are indeed "patterns somewhere, waiting to emerge"!

a reply to: jeep3r

I think ive found one from page 116

slug ano



sol 574 mast



sol 574

ahh not too bad , three months or thereabouts?

funBox

a reply to: funbox

Hmmm ... I guess that proves a point about seeing something in compressed low-res thumbnails that turns out to be interesting enough even in the later fullsize image.

Perhaps you've found yourself a fossilized sponge ... here an earthly example of a devonian stromatoporoid:

Image Source

Nothing else like that around, I know, but to completely rule it out one could have acquired an image even more up close. But yeah, that'd certainly delay the overall mission too much, so let her move on to climb Mt. Aeolis ...

a reply to: jeep3r

a comparison ive yet to make yet , been distracted by the rewind to 663



interesting amalgamation

sol 663

funBox

guys, good posts,

as things settle in Ukraine I will post more of my findings. Cant focus on extremely interesting topic.
Miss my Mars pics scrutiny.
Keep going. I will be joining soon)

a reply to: Rob48

Now that we have the full-size image we can see how the enlargement process suggests patterns where there aren't any.

GIF below shows:

1: The small image
2: The small image blown up in Photoshop with no other adjustment
3: Funbox's enhancement
4: The full-res image

a reply to: Rob48

hmmm , interesting patterns are arnt they

but I see no added extra's, care to point them out?

infact ide say mine was more realistic because its balanced

anyone know why their using gifs now , this last one from 563 are all gifs ? odd that. jpg is much better for file sizes and lossless compression

funBox

originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: Rob48


anyone know why their using gifs now , this last one from 563 are all gifs ? odd that. jpg is much better for file sizes and lossless compression

I don't see any GIFs on the MSL page. All still JPGs as far as I can see. This is the Sol 663 full-resolution JPG:

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

(I don't know if they are lossless JPGs, but I doubt it.)

mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Steam,smoke, dust, or sun glare in the upper right corner of the picture?

Coprolite

originally posted by: funbox
a reply to: jeep3r

a comparison ive yet to make yet , been distracted by the rewind to 663

interesting amalgamation

sol 663

funBox

Coprolite....

originally posted by: Minardi
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Steam,smoke, dust, or sun glare in the upper right corner of the picture?

maybe sun glare but it could be dust...

originally posted by: Arken
Coprolite....

I'm not sure how big it is, but I assume a Martian animal would have to be pretty big and eat a lot of rocks to poop out something that size. Something with a big gizzard. Maybe a Martian turkey.

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...

a reply to: Blue Shift

I know Donald Duck when I'm looking at him. At least his head.

originally posted by: Minardi
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...

Steam,smoke, dust, or sun glare in the upper right corner of the picture?

Probably glare, it also appears on the next photo.

originally posted by: funbox
anyone know why their using gifs now , this last one from 563 are all gifs ? odd that. jpg is much better for file sizes and lossless compression

I haven't seen any GIFs, could you point to one?

a reply to: Arken

looks like a painful passage, such an unusual mixture of chaos and eroded order , ill bet the digestion was just as turbulent

funBox

a reply to: ArMaP

my bad I got my folders crossed wired nothing out of the ordinary

not that there is anything ordinary , o course

funBox