Today's Stereogram from Mars - Microscopic image of spherule(Opportunity)-Pancam(Spirit) sol-29

NASA - JPL ^ | 02-23-2004 | NASA/JPL

[Phil V.]

Crabs on Mars! yikes . . .

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. . . and a zoom-in . . .

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sol-29 . . . Spirit . . . pancam . . .

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[Monty22]

Centering the pics on the screen really helps me 'phase' my vision to see the 3d image on my own. Just FYI

[maxamillion]

Looks like Turkey tracks to me...

[Republic]

How could anyone not find this fascinating? I am in love with American ingenuity and space exploration. And I am so glad we have a President who understands the importance of keeping an active program of space exploration going forward-it is a vision that is important on every level.

[RightWhale]

The spherule looks organic like a flower bud. Add water.

[LibWhacker]

Is it possible to see without the stereo view? . . . Because I think I can see it. I'm just not used to seeing that kind of symmetry in nature except on living things.

[ErnBatavia]

Those pics look just like the video from my last Colonoscopy, complete with the polyp the doc nipped...

[R. Scott]

Some kind of a ground growing nut?

[Cold Heat]

Not sure what that means, the structure looks like the structure of a star saphire in some ways.

This is not my area or expertise.

I defer to the dirt guys.

[tje]

very cool.. good eyes..

[tutstar]

It reminds me of an acorn or duck droppings.

[ccmay]

NOTICE FURTHER that from tip of the "peach" there are SIX spokes (longitudinal lines) with the tip of the sherule as the axis.

That's a Star of David! It's just another conspiracy by them dang Joos...

-ccm

[steveo]

...or duck droppings.

Space poopy!

[Fitzcarraldo]

I've seen a dozen spherules with slight indentations on their surfaces. There are tubular structures in the matrix that seem to fit against spherules that are still attached to the matrix.

[Professional Engineer]

I just found some Rover test movies here: NASA Dryden Flight Center

[Indie]

It's organic. No scientific method needed. "Rocks" don't look like sea urchins [minus the spines]. I especially like the one with the "bug" shape in the earlier thread with the opaque antennae. And something has been excavating the crevices. I still say Mars was like earth a long time ago.

[Darksheare]

Still, weird.
*chuckle*

[Paradox]

I'm still not sure it is organic, I figured it looked grown, but then you can grow crystals (usually requires water though...).

However, this picture might just be the strangest one I have seen, with the least "occam-able" explanations to it..

[Indie]

Too bad the rovers don't have super sensitive microphones on them to listen to the wind, or to listen to the rocks! [rock eating termites?] :))))

[mdmathis6]

you can view them cross eyed and the three d image shows up in the center(like those mirage dot hidden picture deals from the 80's and early ninties) The crab thing and the pea show up as depressions!

[mdmathis6]

When seen in three d the sperical this looks like a perfectly drilled depression like the explorer has been using its sampling drill to test the rock!