[djf]

Clue #1:
The color does not match the surrounding rock
Clue #2:
The shininess or reflectivity does not match the surrounding rock
Clue #3:
It’s standing up, not laying on it’s side
Clue #4:
It appears to be made of discrete components that were fitted together

I realize it would be a life-altering shock for some people if we were to make this kind of discovery.
But cognitive dissonance cannot negate facts.

[bkepley]

Your certainty about what it is (or is not) argues against your being correct in my opinion.

[mnehring]

#1-#3 most likely due to it being a mineral deposit of some sort different from the surrounding rock that the rock has weathered away around it.

#4 it is far too blurry of an image to determine that. You are seeing what you want to. It doesn’t look like that at all to me.

It almost looks like a blob of melted metal, possibly from volcanic or asteroid. It is probably the result of one of these and it is much larger than the piece shown here, the top layer of surrounding rock has weathered away from it so it appears to be standing when you are just seeing the tip of it.

[mnehring]

Add on to all that, did you at least look at the source YouTube channel? They traffic in all that kind of BS. They are still spreading the ‘space junk’ video where they claim they are HD images of UFOs and the ‘bases on the moon’ video which are actually screen caps from the movie Iron Sky.

Good grief.

[RoosterRedux]

It has been suggested that is simply a metal vein in the soil or rock (they do exist on Mars) which has been exposed by the erosion of the soil/rock over time.

That said, it would be much more fun to imagine a different, perhaps unnatural, answer.