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What the heck is on Mars?
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Posted on 04/03/2004 6:12:55 AM PST by djf

I've been reviewing some of the pics from Opportunity.

On Sol 61, it snapped this pic:



I admit it could very well be a piece of an old spacecraft of our or the russkies.


On Sol55, it took four images of this:



Much older than any item in the above pic. Oddly, all four of these pics have a "data dropout" at the same area.


Then, the latest batch, taken Sol67:




Whatever this thing is, it looks to be artificial.

And it's not ours.


Kinda looks like a Martian sewer pipe.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: mars; nasa
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1 posted on 04/03/2004 6:12:55 AM PST by djf
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To: djf
What's its size?
2 posted on 04/03/2004 6:15:38 AM PST by demlosers (Coulter: Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying.)
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To: djf
Yeah, those black and white pics of the pavement outside your house do seem to indicate something artificial.
3 posted on 04/03/2004 6:15:54 AM PST by Joe Bonforte
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4 posted on 04/03/2004 6:16:45 AM PST by Support Free Republic (I'd rather be sleeping. Let's get this over with so I can go back to sleep!)
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Very strange. Those smaller "impressions" look like phillips screw heads.
5 posted on 04/03/2004 6:16:51 AM PST by Rebelbase
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6 posted on 04/03/2004 6:17:28 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Joe Bonforte
Must be a good hoax to have the pavement photos hosted on the NASA server.
7 posted on 04/03/2004 6:18:01 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: djf
I smell a rat.
8 posted on 04/03/2004 6:18:49 AM PST by searchandrecovery (Tagline Error 404 - please notify your System Administrator.)
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To: demlosers
They were all taken by the microscopic imager. Sometimes, the things they take micro pics of show up in the navigation camera images, but I have'nt been able to find these.
9 posted on 04/03/2004 6:18:52 AM PST by djf
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Those are impressions made by one of the measuring instruments on the end of the rovers arm. There was a thread on this about a week ago that clearly showed the impressions and the instrument that made them.
10 posted on 04/03/2004 6:19:28 AM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: djf
We have drills up there.
11 posted on 04/03/2004 6:20:13 AM PST by VRWC_minion
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To: djf
Martian toilet bowl cover
12 posted on 04/03/2004 6:20:53 AM PST by cyborg (Frankenfreude radio death watch has commenced)
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To: djf
All 4 images are where NASA has used the microscopic imager and pressed down the soil. After the imager does its job, they take another picture of the soil impressions.

On a couple of them, you can see the impression of a phillips screw, and on one, a slotted screw.

Mars is still a desert.
13 posted on 04/03/2004 6:27:20 AM PST by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: djf

Fascinating!

14 posted on 04/03/2004 6:27:28 AM PST by Momaw Nadon (Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
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To: djf
it fell off this...


15 posted on 04/03/2004 6:28:28 AM PST by InvisibleChurch ("George W. Bush is a September 12 person. John Kerry is a September 10 person.")
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To: djf
What the heck is on Mars?


16 posted on 04/03/2004 6:32:19 AM PST by aomagrat ("The essence of war is violence! Moderation in war is imbecility!")
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It is my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Hand it over, or I will become very, very angry.

17 posted on 04/03/2004 6:32:22 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: djf
Crop circles made by those silly Jupiterians on their way home from making crop circles on earth last year.
18 posted on 04/03/2004 6:32:35 AM PST by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Lokibob
The first pic is an object, not an impression. There's too much color difference and uniformity for it to be an impression. Pluss, you can plainly make out where it is starting to be covered by the sand, and you can see individual sand grains on the surface. The second pic very well might be an impression. But given that the first pic even exists, it almost looks like the second is a picture of whatever was under the first picture.
The last two are new today. They look very ancient to me.
19 posted on 04/03/2004 6:33:01 AM PST by djf
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i think the Jupiterians didn't clean up after their doggies, if you know what I mean


20 posted on 04/03/2004 6:34:44 AM PST by InvisibleChurch ("George W. Bush is a September 12 person. John Kerry is a September 10 person.")
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