Is this a Martian?

[DoctorDoom]

This is one of the shots sent from Mars by the panoramic camera on the Opportunity rover.

Sol 88 series (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/088/1P135996874EFF1413P2285L7M1.JPG)

Look at this crop from the photo:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Martian.jpg

It's not a fluke. It's in three shots in the Sol 88 series and one in the Sol 87 series.

In the full picture it's centered near the top. Study the full image and see if there's anything else in the shot that's even remotely like it. It has left-right symmetry and looks for all the world as though there are legs. How long it had been there is anyone's guess—it might well be fossilized—but I'd give the extremity of one's choice to go there and fetch that thing.

[Rink]

the rocks look like weathered petrified wood.

[Apollo5600]

Don't let Richard Hoagland hear about this, or however his name is spelled.

[DoctorDoom]

It's actually just a rock, but the question is, where the hell did it come from, and how did it get there? It's unlike anything else in any photos from the rovers. Anomalies fascinate me.

[Rink]

true enough you arent the only one fascinated by anomalies, the way it looks it almost looks like a petrified rock, and if that is a 'canal' or possible riverbed of ancient origins, who knows, it just MIGHT be just that, a petrified piece of some plant/tree-like material.

BTW ever notice in almost every culture on earth Mars is always associated with 'war or disaster'?????

[Wolfcounsel]

I am looking at the right side of the rock, at the 4 to 5 o'clock postion. There appears to be some shape that looks like a strange bug with antennae facing to the right, it's sitting down and leaning forward. I can picture an eye and a funny beak-looking nose or mouth. Maybe it's the coffee, heh heh.

[Rink]

Uhhh WolfC, put down the bong man, its warpin yer brain!!

[DoctorDoom]

It's a baby Martian.

[Wolfcounsel]

It's a baby Martian cricket frog.


"Uhhh WolfC, put down the bong man, its warpin yer brain!!" --Rink

A bong of coffee a day tends to do that! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Jeffrho]

I wonder if it's the remains of Marvin?
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/lkmarvin/Pictures/marvin6.gif

[Rink]

Naw its the remains of Elvis!

[BEST45CAL]

it looks like a meteorite

[DoctorDoom]

If it is, it came in for a soft landing, which is highly uncharacteristic of meteors.

[Rink]

In all reality it may just be a stupid ole rock or volcanic rock

[DoctorDoom]

Actually, my alien sources tell me that it's the fossilized remains of a pet xorfil that was lost by an Arcturian family during a picnic approximately 18,237,551.9503285423 Martian years ago. They posted "lost pet" signs all over the planet, but the Martians couldn't read Arcturian, so they went home disappointed.

[Wyatt_Junker]

That picture looks like something off the rate-my-poo.com site.

[Chris]

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DoctorDoom said:
If it is, it came in for a soft landing, which is highly uncharacteristic of meteors.

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It looks like it's at the edge of a circle though. Maybe it's a piece that broke off on impact from a bigger piece that made the circle.

[DoctorDoom]

But then why is it the ONLY one like it in any shot in the series? And would a fragment of an impact come to rest atop a pile of rocks on the edge of the impact crater?

Maybe in a thousand years or so, when man regains his urge to explore, we'll go there and find out what it is.

[tacitus]

Looks like Gore's missing brain.