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Unusual Looking Martian Rock
NONE | 1-9-04 | Orion78

Posted on 01/08/2004 10:04:57 PM PST by Orion78


The original image from NASA is HERE


Location of Rock in Question


Close Up


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: mars; martianrock; mera; rock; spirit; sushi
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To: Mentos


41 posted on 01/08/2004 10:54:41 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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To: doug from upland
Hey, great idea. The 1st American flag on Mars should be planted by the "U.S.S. Sheila Jackson Lee."
42 posted on 01/08/2004 10:57:14 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Orion78
I'll take one of those pings.

Thank you

trussell
43 posted on 01/08/2004 11:09:28 PM PST by trussell (Ante Up!!)
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To: Orion78
"I can't wait until they get the rover onto the surface."

Yeah me too. I am a space science and exploration junkie.
44 posted on 01/08/2004 11:15:17 PM PST by AppauledAtAppeasementConservat (An educated fool, in the end, is still a fool.)
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To: uglybiker
16 nuhs. (eight couplets) Yep. I'm amazed.
45 posted on 01/08/2004 11:16:41 PM PST by mercy
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To: AppauledAtAppeasementConservat
"I am a space science and exploration junkie."

Ditto, I can't wait until MER B Lands on the 24th. MER A will be well underway and there will be so many new pictures of Mars I will be like a kid in a candy shop.
46 posted on 01/08/2004 11:21:01 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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To: All
Here is a black and white "RAW" image of the same rock. I believe it is the same picture as the one above, but without the color.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/001/2P126471476EFF0000P2303L2M1.JPG
47 posted on 01/08/2004 11:24:30 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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To: Orion78
Here is a link to another incomplete image which just happens to show that rock. I think it leaves little doubt that it's a hole.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/001/2P126471476EFF0000P2303L2M1.JPG
48 posted on 01/08/2004 11:29:33 PM PST by Route66 (America's Mainstreet)
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To: Route66
LOL, beat you by about 3 seconds there. =)
49 posted on 01/08/2004 11:30:42 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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To: Orion78
Re: pictures in post #41 - a possible "Burning Man Festival" in the center (1998) picture?

(Tongue in cheek)
50 posted on 01/08/2004 11:30:55 PM PST by _Jim ( <--- Ann Coulter speaks on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
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To: Orion78
Sorry, I was looking for the link and I see you beat me. :-)
It is interesting, no?
51 posted on 01/08/2004 11:31:22 PM PST by Route66 (America's Mainstreet)
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To: Orion78
"Ditto, I can't wait until MER B Lands on the 24th. MER A will be well underway and there will be so many new pictures of Mars I will be like a kid in a candy shop."

Opportunity's site is a hematite formation supposedly so it will be interesting to see the rocks there. Hematite is considered a water process mineral formation. I can't wait to see what the rock closeups at this site will look like.

Remember the first color pancam image from jan 5? There is a neat rock you should look at in that image. I'll try cut it and to post it here in a little while but it looks like a it was cleaved into similar. I'm no geologist but I can only speculate that liquid water freezing could have split the rock like that. Of course it could also be an image anomoly where they pasted the pics together but I can't tell by looking at it.
52 posted on 01/08/2004 11:32:38 PM PST by AppauledAtAppeasementConservat (An educated fool, in the end, is still a fool.)
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To: Route66
Err lol, like 5 mins and 3 seconds, I forgot to refresh and thought you just posted that. Anyway, thanks for looking into it. I have been browsing other images looking for the same rock. The only other image I have found with the rock in it is the Black and White 3D panorama and the resolution is so poor compared to the most recent color one that you can't discern anything about the rock or any hole that might be there. It just looks like a blob when you zoom in.
53 posted on 01/08/2004 11:34:27 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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To: Orion78
looks like a waste of a couple hundred million dollars to me...

:)

54 posted on 01/08/2004 11:35:10 PM PST by Tim Osman (It's okay, I wasn't using those constitutional rights anyway.)
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To: Orion78
Please ping me if you get a response or have any updates.

Thanks!
55 posted on 01/08/2004 11:35:41 PM PST by LPM1888 (What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? - Lazarus Long)
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To: Tim Osman
Just curious, but why do you think the Mars mission is a waste of money?
56 posted on 01/08/2004 11:38:14 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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To: Orion78
does anyone else find it odd that as soon as the UK gets close to landing a craft on mars and now the chinesse space program that now all of a sudden we seem to be doing very well in our space exploration.

- The sucessful landing, the weird space mud that cant be mud, now this.

57 posted on 01/08/2004 11:39:57 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Orion78
In that photo the hole looks very very square. How odd.
58 posted on 01/08/2004 11:41:01 PM PST by honeygrl (If I had a dollar for every time I had 60 cents, I would be in Canada.)
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To: _Jim
Nah, that was the photo taken after the government destroyed the face to cover up the evidence of aliens on mars. /tinfoilhat
59 posted on 01/08/2004 11:42:36 PM PST by honeygrl (If I had a dollar for every time I had 60 cents, I would be in Canada.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
space mud? I missed that one. Got a link?
60 posted on 01/08/2004 11:44:23 PM PST by honeygrl (If I had a dollar for every time I had 60 cents, I would be in Canada.)
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