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To: ThomasMore

The posted image is very horizontally compressed giving an initial distorted view.

Clicking on the image until it is full size reveals that the ‘buttes’ are or look like they are composed of sedimentary layers, like they are the remains of what was once an ocean or lake bottom. Their present shapes could have been caused by wind erosion or even by water erosion in the past, even both.

But the most interesting aspect is not the rocks/buttes, but the blue sky - NASA recently and quietly dropped the forced red color which has been in use since the very first images were returned form the surface. NASA is also now showing the Martian surface in true color having removed the red filter used in prior images.

That said, there is an anomalous metallic looking object to the right of the rover’s boom. Unfortunately, the download resolution is only 72dpi so there is no way to get fine detail on the object. There are also some possible interesting objects on the left side of the boom but there is little detail in the image.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 6:15:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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7 posted on 08/24/2016 6:36:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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Is that enough detail?.................


8 posted on 08/24/2016 6:37:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: PIF; ThomasMore
"That said, there is an anomalous metallic looking object to the right of the rover’s boom. Unfortunately, the download resolution is only 72dpi so there is no way to get fine detail on the object."

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Going to APOD and clicking on the image to get the uncompressed panoramic view is definitely worthwhile.

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This "anomalous metallic looking object"?

It certainly is anomalous -- lying there, atop that field of flat, planar slabs. And the "metallic" luster appear to be reflecting the blue of the sky you mentioned. Almost makes one suspect it might be a metallic meteorite...

FWIW -- to me, that whole area definitely looks sedimentary and water-eroded. In fact, if I were in West Texas, I would be inspecting the base of the "caprock" on those buttes (where it intersects the talus slope) for eroded "rockshelters" that had been occupied by prehistoric Texans...

17 posted on 08/24/2016 9:38:36 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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