Posted on 10/15/2014 10:32:45 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
NASA's Opportunity rover, a Mars exploration rover has been active for four years on Mars travelling fro a distance of more than 25 miles, captured images through its microscopic imager camera. A formation of a cross inside a circle was observed in the images.
According to a post on UFO Sightings Daily by Scott Waring, the photos, five in number, were captured on July 12 at 10.23 UTC with the photo ID Sol 3720. The source of the photos is the NASA site .
Scott Waring explained that the cross inside a circle was unusual and could possibly be three things. The objects that he felt this symbol, similar to a Celtic or Irish cross shape, could be are a fossil creature, a crystal formation and micro-technology.
Before the arrival of Christianity, the Celtic and Irish cross was widely used by the ancient people, reported UFO Sightings Hotspot . The four arms of the cross could denote either the four elements, the four directions of a compass or the four parts of man namely mind, body, soul and heart.
The ring around the cross carries many explanations including sun worship as well as symbolism. The ring was assumed to be symbolic as it created a shape that was aesthetically pleasing.
Scott Waring, on UFO Sightings Daily, explained that it could be a fossil of a micro creature but since there was a ring around the cross, it wasn't likely. He also wrote that the cross had a few similarities to a crystal formation but the ring caused him to rule that out as well.
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Handy, I think you may have solved the mystery.
If that ring with the phillips head screws embedded, ever pressed into a soft surface, you’d expect to find the sort of impression we see in the NASA image.
Good job!
Yup, I think you got it. That head at 9 o’clock is a dead ringer. Good job.
LOL. I have neither the time nor inclination. The idea upthread about this possibly being an imprint made by a phillips screw actually sounds more reasonable to me.
Thank you. Of course we still don’t know the scale of the rover image. But that “tamper-proof” style phillips screw head sure bears a resemblance. You can just imagine the spectrometer moving into position and also making the mark to the left of the screw imprint. And yes, it is the screw head at 9 o’clock that shows that same profile.
Touche’!
That’s exactly what it looks like, an old style surveying benchmark.
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