Posted on 05/12/2023 5:03:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The rover spotted a tiny Martian rock that looks eerily like a fossilized book on the surface of the Red Planet.
NASA's Curiosity rover snapped an intriguing picture of a tiny Martian rock that looks surprisingly like a fossilized book on the surface of the Red Planet.
The rover captured the image of the peculiar book-like rock on April 15 — the 3,800th Martian day, or sol, of its mission — using the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the end of its robotic arm, according to NASA(opens in new tab). The red rock looks like two halves of an open book with a single page that has frozen halfway through being turned.
The rock may look somewhat like a book, but it is much smaller. The fossilized pageturner is actually just 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) across, according to NASA.
"Rocks with unusual shapes are common on Mars," NASA representatives wrote. The strangely shaped rocks are made from minerals that were left behind by ancient water. These minerals would once have been buried beneath softer sediments, but billions of years of erosion by wind have blown away everything else, they added.
In February 2022, Curiosity spotted a branched "mineral flower" that was around 0.4 inch (1 cm) wide. And on Feb. 16, the rover photographed rocks imprinted with tiny ripples, or waves, left behind from an ancient lake.
Scientists have also seen larger-scale shapes carved out by ancient water on the Red Planet — including a large rock formation that looks just like a teddy bear's face and another that's a dead ringer for the frizzy-haired Muppet Beaker.
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Looks like a rock to me.
You must be an engineer.
Must more likely than it’s a “fossilized book.”
Can someone please photoshop a very hazy but unmistakable likeness of our lady Guadalupe on that? Pleeeeze?
One half of an alien cinderblock.
Because they (”scientists”) cannot explain how the item was formed (because they are not experts on Martian geology and its history), they act like the guys on the “Ancient Aliens” show. What do those guys on”Ancient Aliens” do? They impute their own modern interpretation of what something (usuualy ancient art) looks like, to them,as if that is what the ancient people MUST have been portraying.
So, some as yet on known geologic method formed something we cannot understand and the scientists call it a “petrified book”.
Well, they got you to click on them didn’t thay.
Pretty sure there is a rock or two involved but not on the that planet.
:)
Can you send me an engineering degree because it looks like a rock.
Well done.
That is an excellent Photoshopped alteration!👏
IT IS PHOTOSHOPPED .. ISN’T IT?😬😟
Hahahaha...I love the challenge of a quick Photoshop. That is genuinely fun, especially if you can make an entertaining one.
I am always happy to help.
https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFNlUJs5g4-white-simple-certificate-of-appreciation/
So I hosted the file and posted it above on this thread. NOW look at what they did to my hosted file-THEY REPLACED IT! LOOK!
DO YOU SEE IT?
As we speak, they are scouring the Internet, using Chinese Communist developed AI, to spot, trace, and replace content they don't want anyone to see.
On second thought (ear cocked to the front of the house) No. Nope. It is a Photoshop. Never heard of Our Lady of Guadalupe, definitely not on some book they found on Mars. Nope.
Excellent.
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