I find it interesting how a rock can be eroded in such a fashion without anything else around being of a similar nature...........


I had to crop the pic but heres the Link if you want to see the full picture...

Interesting picture.
All the stones there look, well, sort of out of place. Like a picture of a garden path made of rocks. They seem to almost all fit, like they were placed there and smoothed down.

I agree, just like your description about a path of sorts, like it's broken up yet level.

In the full picture at the top left there, in the distance, is somekind of pile of rocks with a white dot. What could that be??

I've seen that before, I believe it's like a 'missing pixel' or piece of information when the data was being transmitted back to earth..........I guess in other words just a 'blank' spot where there was no info to fill it in........

I thought that was what the black areas were.
Thanks.

This isn't just one picture, it's a mosaic made of several pictures so the borders wont match up exactly and that's why you get that jagged black outline along the border........

Wow looks like the top of something buried.

Hmmmm...it does look like a plank of wood lol... how did that get there?

I concur meis thats sure looks like a piece of wood on the left side of the picture. It also looks like water had flowed in the past from right to left slowly because when you look between them it kind a looks like a dry creek bed especially on the lower left side. Thats a really great picture. But then again it could have been done from the heat from the impact crater when what ever hit the planet.

It looks exactly like a railway sleeper !!!!!!!!!
Whats the white mound in the background ???????

I wonder how many photos that came from the rovers showing something really interesting that never made it to the nasa photo database...

BTW, mars looks a heck of a lot like Barstow California. I've been there many a time...I used to ride dirt bikes out in the desert and I amazed by the similarities between the two worlds. Spread a few beer cans and a box or two of shotgun shells and you pretty much have the desert I used to ride across at a high rate of speed...wierd.

You remind me of the conspiracy theory that will come up some years later saying that nasa only went to california, just as they never land on the moon.

interesting pic

i think that the white thing in the back ground might actually be the lander....unsure


http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegaller...eature_216.html

Ever seen the movie "Capricorn One" ?

Looks like an exceptionally large cross-section of slate busted off from a larger plate.

More to be found on this topic...right here.

Should I? Will google thx

As a matter of fact I just saw that about two months ago........also the other poster said that the white speck might be the lander, they could be right, that was my second guess anyway cause it could be reflecting the sunlight very strongly since it is silver in color.

They shoulda placed the diving board a little more to the right.

haha nice

Thats amazing !!!! It also seems that the rover has driven over the object !?! because you can see a kind of trail. Using the trail of the rover as a vague ratio the object length is around 3/4ths of the width of the trail...Awesome pic !!. PLUS that object Burnside refered to does look like something gleaming in the distance more than a defection in the pic ???

IMHO the picture is a fake. I looked closely at the surrounding rock in order to establish a "shadow orientation" The object in question does not have the same shadow signature and in fact is clearly object defined where a shadow should be. Again, just my opinion.

It does look like a large piece of sandstone (??) has been cracked. Perhaps over several stages - sediment surface hardens - hardened surface is cracked by heat as mentioned or perhaps impact of something lesser (earthquake or perhaps "marsquake" )as it seems that anything large enough moving at sufficient speed to create enough heat to crack stone a) would have oblitterated the stone rather than cracking it and would have made a much larger crater than the one on the right side of the "mosaic"

Perhaps the "plank" was simply dislodged because of an anomaly in its foundation as compared to the other "stones" surrounding it. Surely however, its shape could be formed naturally. Ever found a piece of hardened sand on the beach in a similar shape? well if you havent, i can assure you, I have and it wasnt created by any aliens

hmm...nobody here has mentioned aliens until you brought it up.

then whats so "curious" about it? whats the huge fuss over a piece of rock if not that it has other influence then mars's geology, i ask you.

Maybe I'm an avid fan of geology?

Before you start posting in this forum you might want to actually 'get to know' the posters here before trying to argue with them.

Cheers....

I can agree with that also, but where is the larger plate? There is nothing else around remotely resembling it........

Has anyone here heard of the US/Soviet base established on Mars?

Before you start posting in this forum you might want to actually 'get to know' the posters here before trying to argue with them.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Art, I'm not here to discuss you're "avid" interests, hobbies, fetishes, etc. In fact, I'm not even here to ( a ) 'get to know' or ( b ) argue with you in particular or any other member for that matter. I'm didnt start arguing with you nor do I have any intention to continue.

The very act of posting on these forums means I'm allowing myself to 'get to know' the posters and 'get to know' their point of view so you might want to lose the hostility and try practising what you preach.

If no one had previously mentioned the possibility, who cares? I did. Live with it.

We were discussing intresting rock formations and how they could occur and you decided to say something about 'aliens' which NOBODY here even said and accuse us of attributing these stuctures to...please bugger off......

Yes Art, thats right we were. NOBODY had said it before, granted. I really dont care. I'm not accusing "us" of anything of the sort, I merely made suggestions. In fact I dont believe I even suggested it WAS created by aliens. Either a) the rock was formed through geological processes on mars or b) it had other influence, is that really so hard to accept?

I'll bugger off, sure.

By all means go back to discussing the rock...

That is a quote of you......talking about aliens.........which not one of us ever mentiond here...........so what is your problem..??

Yes i did and you still are struggling to comprehend it, Art this particular discussion is in the "Extraterrestrial Life & The UFO" section of the site. You still think it odd that people may start discussing extraterrestrials?

Art, my statement about it was not even made on a serious note. Nor was it directed with any interest or malice towards you. Why make such a big deal out of it?

So why did you even post?

Because some of us are serious..........

A bit of light humour...

Criminal behaviour?

Is it just me or does it always seem that a sour environment evolves when Martian artifacts are discussed??

Lol martian geology is just such a pressing and heated debate these days

Art, melange, i don't know why the hell you are argueing (which to me sounds silly...), but could be please stop? Thanks in advance ol'beans.
Crikey its a like a kindergarten sometimes >_>

Could of been a solid and cracked from weather conditions.