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NASA Says A Thigh Bone Was Not Found on Mars
Weather.com ^ | August 24, 2014 | Laura Dattaro

Posted on 08/25/2014 4:24:46 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

An image from the Curiosity rover that some people thought showed a “thigh bone” on Mars is just a photo of a weathered rock, according to NASA. The photo shows the dirt-covered surface of Mars littered with bits of rock, one of which is elongated in a shape similar to a leg bone.

The image was first picked up on a UFO blog, Space.com reports, purporting to show evidence of past alien life on the planet. The claim got so much attention that NASA released the photo with an official explanation — saying the object did look like a thigh bone, but it most definitely is not.

“No bones about it! Seen by Mars rover Curiosity using its MastCam, this Mars rock may look like a femur thigh bone,” the site reads. “Mission science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind or water.”

(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: bone; mars; nasa; rover
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To: Billthedrill

“I might have believed the thing was a natural rock formation, but when I saw that perfect red circle around it, I was convinced there’s something strange going on.

Well it is the RED planet.


21 posted on 08/25/2014 4:43:25 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Paladin2

22 posted on 08/25/2014 4:44:41 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

In other news, General Francisco Franco is still dead...


23 posted on 08/25/2014 4:45:23 PM PDT by Magnum44 (I have had just about enough)
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To: driftdiver

And lets not forget that NASA like all federal agencies has a long history of lying to keep their funding at minimal levels.


24 posted on 08/25/2014 4:46:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

There is no doubt that is a thigh bone, not a rock. And as other posters have noted, there is a foot print on top of it and an arrowhead next to it. We know our government lies to us.


25 posted on 08/25/2014 4:46:40 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Is that regolith on top of it?

It looks like the rover moved it. Is this an attempted cover--up?

LOL!

If you look at enough rocks, sooner or later you will find one in virtually every shape.

A Rock?

Iraq?

No, it is shaped more like Italy.

26 posted on 08/25/2014 4:46:55 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

they sure flushed the images of trilobites and fauna quick too..


27 posted on 08/25/2014 4:48:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: PAR35

I’ve seen this combination of bone and stone spear point in many museums and the archeologists that found them all got their Phds.


28 posted on 08/25/2014 4:48:58 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
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To: Organic Panic

There you go, you’ve solved the mystery and SJL will be ecstatic. :-)


29 posted on 08/25/2014 4:51:12 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: cripplecreek

Well its about the only way they can get someone to look at these pictures.


30 posted on 08/25/2014 4:52:25 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Billthedrill
I might have believed the thing was a natural rock formation, but when I saw that perfect red circle around it, I was convinced there’s something strange going on.

It was the <------- that convinced me.

31 posted on 08/25/2014 4:59:17 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: driftdiver
Have you seen the iguana too?


32 posted on 08/25/2014 5:01:29 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing
My first thought was this.


33 posted on 08/25/2014 5:02:51 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I see two iguanas...


34 posted on 08/25/2014 5:03:33 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Really THICK Swamp Gas!


35 posted on 08/25/2014 5:03:51 PM PDT by mabarker1 (FYI)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
"NASA stated that the object is not a thigh bone. They would send Rover back to get another picture, but they said Rover is stuck in the sand."


36 posted on 08/25/2014 5:06:45 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

My damn dog is always leaving his finds laying around.

Actually it really does look like a bone with a spearhead next to it. We might hope that the rover could move them and get some better pics of these rocks.


37 posted on 08/25/2014 5:06:55 PM PDT by Rockpile
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38 posted on 08/25/2014 5:17:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dfwgator
Martian marital aid?
39 posted on 08/25/2014 5:27:53 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: CivilWarBrewing
where that thigh bone? is it near the flag? I be still lookin'
40 posted on 08/25/2014 5:31:05 PM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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