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What's that? New rock in Mars rover photos baffles scientists, fans
chron.com ^
| January 16, 2014
| Carol Christian |
Posted on 01/16/2014 6:44:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
Practically overnight, an unexplained piece of rock has shown up on photos from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, according to the digital Russian TV network RT (Russia Today).
The rover hasn't moved in over a month, as it waits for better weather, but a photo taken on Sol 3540 (Jan. 8, or the 3,540th Martian solar day since the Opportunity rover landed) shows a rock that wasn't visible in previous photos taken on Sol 3536.
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Staffers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California who maintain the rover camera (pancam) database for NASA have named the rock Pinnacle Island.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: mars; nasa; opportunity; stevesquyres
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To: mrsmith
Not much like ‘The Scream’ just a little elongated, mouth’s shut.
Rock points right between the eyes at the nose.
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posted on
01/16/2014 7:57:32 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: mrsmith; Marcella
Mars. The ultimate Rorschach test.
I can't wait for the tourist brochures.
/johnny
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:07:19 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
To: mrsmith; BenLurkin
it's an empty jiffy pop pan with the handle missing
![](http://s.imwx.com/dru/2014/01/a50402b7-bf18-42ee-a232-72f245674598_650x366.jpg)
To: mrsmith; Shimmer1
*GROAN*
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:11:48 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: Kirkwood; Fungi; fungus
Fungus! You shoulda pinged him...
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:14:06 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: Louis Foxwell; mrsmith
Leading me to consider the kind of mind that spontaneously bursts out with rock of phages at the mere mention of bacteriological activity as an hypothesis for the rock that is not there then is. mrsmith is Donovan's FR screen name.
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:17:59 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: null and void
NSA Interrogator: “Mrsmith, if that’ IS your real name, you claim you spent 300 million dollars, developed a new form of space propulsion and went to Mars and put that rock there just so you could make a pun?”
Mrsmith: “Yes, but not just ‘a” pun... a GREAT pun! HA, HA, HA HA!”
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:39:10 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: mrsmith
It is epic.
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:41:54 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: mrsmith
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:43:19 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: Doc Savage
Appian Way?
That’s the Bimini Road.
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:43:46 PM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: smoothsailing
It's an oyster mushroom.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Austernseitling_-_oyster_mushroom_-_Pleurotus_ostreatus_-_02.jpg/302px-Austernseitling_-_oyster_mushroom_-_Pleurotus_ostreatus_-_02.jpg)
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:52:34 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: null and void; mrsmith; JRandomFreeper
Celebrating 50 years of emerging truth, or something. "First there is a mountain...."
Thank you null and void. I am delighted by the patch of berries I have fallen into. There is, indeed, a force greater than we can know who ties the knots holding us together.
Thank you, mrsmith, your wit is magnified by half a century of accumulated wisdom.
Johnny, oh Johnny. Wherefore art thou my Johnny?
"I am here inn the berry patch," says Johnny. "They are sweet and tart and altogether delicious."
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posted on
01/16/2014 9:10:03 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Dammit.... The lawyer said that was privileged communications, and it would never hit a transcript.
Lawyers, you pay them thousands, they get $$s on the side, and briar patch conversations leak out anyway.
/johnny
To: BenLurkin
I think it was always there. Just different angle if light and shadow in the two photos. I can see details in the rock that are present in the first photo shadows as dim outlines. It’s there, just differently highlighted.
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posted on
01/16/2014 9:49:38 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: BenLurkin
Wetbacks throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents!!
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posted on
01/16/2014 10:00:38 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: mrsmith
Looks like its in both photos to me.It is...One picture is distorted compared to the other but it is definitely in both pictures...
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:26:32 AM PST
by
Iscool
To: dalereed
"Wetbacks throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents!!"
Really, a bloody insensitive remark... this is 2014 for the love!
How about Hydrated Posteriors Carbon Units from a disinterested third party geophysical land mass launched geo-nonspecific artifacts of an igneous nature on a trajectory that intersected with Agents from the United States Immigration Services
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posted on
01/17/2014 5:59:50 AM PST
by
SERE_DOC
( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
To: SERE_DOC
I'm an insensitive bastard and don't believe in political correct shit, EVER!!!
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posted on
01/17/2014 6:14:19 AM PST
by
dalereed
To: BenLurkin; Revolting cat!; Daffynition; JoeProBono
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:07:08 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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