Wood found on Mars? Not Photoshoped - off the nasa website.

Nasa.gov ^

[Next_Time_NJ]

now im not a betting man, but i know landrovers and there space caps are not made of wood. This clearly looks like a wooden plank to me. Unless someone hacked Nasa.gov's website and put up a photoshop'ed photo, this looks kinda odd.

[506trooper]

" What 2 kinds of wood can't float?"

3 kinds...Petrified wood.....Hollywood.....Natalie Wood...*rimshot*

[Axenolith]

Was there a camera remaining behind on the deployment pad? The tracks of the rover appear to go right over it.

[RebelTex]

"Its part of the set we built when we pretended to go to the moon!"

Hey - it's not MY fault. I locked up all those props and threw away the key. I don't know how the Alien got ahold of them. Better ask Sigourney.

;^D

[BJungNan]

Dang, that's where that railroad tie is that fell off the back of my truck.

[RebelTex]

"3 kinds...Petrified wood.....Hollywood.....Natalie Wood...*rimshot*"

nah - Holly NEVER wood - at least not with me :-(

[BIGLOOK]

OK, I've had it with out sourcing jobs....You're not helping!

[jongaltsr]

I have been tracking the rovers and remember "opportunity" coming out of the crater and spotting the shield off in the distance for the first time. I never saw this picture though. What was the SOL date? Which camera angle (Panoramic - front horizacam or navigation camera?

It had to be about SOL 325.

Please let me know.

[cabojoe]

This is what you are seeing in the distance.

[paulat]

Somehow, I think you're behind this: (too chicken to post...had to FReepmail)

Re: Wood found on Mars? Not Photoshoped - off the nasa website.

From Buffalo Head | 12/27/2004 9:29:42 PM PST read

Do you really believe that your inane comment in any way contributes to knowledge or the very purpose of FR? Please grow up and come back with some maturity.

I joke about Mars lumber...not dead people. This was my comment:

Didn't we all evolve from "plank"-ton?

[todd1]

I think I see a camp fire in the distance...

[woofie]

I recieved the same freep mail from Buffalo Head.


Do you really believe that your inane comment in any way contributes to knowledge or the very purpose of FR? Please grow up and come back with some maturity.

[Cowboy Bob]

I guess I'm in good company. Mr Buffalo Head sent me a private e-mail with the exact same comment.

[11th_VA]

Ref: Noah's Ark

Not everyone appeciates the humor. Here's a Freepmail I just received from another fellow Freeper (whose identity I shall not reveal):

"Do you really believe that your inane comment in any way contributes to knowledge or the very purpose of FR. Please grow up and come back with some maturity. "

[CurlyBill]

It's just swamp gas. Pay no attention to this and go back to what you were doing! ;}

[REDWOOD99]

Anybody else see a "halo" around the "wood" on the left and in front?

[todd1]

It looks like the drove right over it. Notice the tracks.

[11th_VA]

Hey, what's with this guy, I guess we touched a sore spot. He's probably a poster on the 'Never Ending Thread'.

[cabojoe]

Looks like it was taken around sol 315 when the rover came out of the crater...the tracks we see are most likely from before the rover went into the crater.

[monkapotamus]

Maybe it drifted from this Martian forest:

Main:

http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M08/M0804688.html

Large .gif:

http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/maps/M08/M0804688.gif

[paulat]

I guess I'm in good company. Mr Buffalo Head sent me a private e-mail with the exact same comment.

Not cool, Mr. Buffalo Head.