Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums

hazzard

Aug 26 2005, 10:34 AM

Does anyone have any idea what that thing is , just infront of the Viking lander.??

http://godlikeproductions.com/gallery/item...id=7&category=6

thebarman

Aug 26 2005, 11:36 AM

Looks like something that's fallen off the lander, it can't be anything major as it's not even mentioned in the article.

Not to mention this has probably been talked to death as the article is over two years old.

The Silver Thong

Aug 26 2005, 01:45 PM

Is it the metal object? or the almost perfectly straight line gouged into the ground? The line in the ground is interesting, what made that? not a rover.

DEBUNKER

Aug 26 2005, 02:01 PM

The metal cylinder at right is the shroud for the surface sampler instrument, which was ejected after landing.

To the left of it are trenches dug by the sampling arm, and at lower right part of a footpad can be seen.

Note the holes in the rocks, which appear to be vesicles produced by gas bubbles when the rocks first solidified from lava.

The camera is looking due east and local time is 19:47. The shroud is about 30 cm long. (Viking 2 Lander, 22G144)

thebarman

Aug 26 2005, 02:04 PM

Wow DEBUNKER, you know Mars when you see it!

....visit often

DEBUNKER

Aug 26 2005, 02:14 PM

QUOTE(thebarman @ Aug 26 2005, 02:04 PM)

Wow DEBUNKER, you know Mars when you see it!

....visit often

Astronomy is my "thing"

PODNickerz

Aug 27 2005, 02:37 AM

Alright my stupid question of the day is:
Why are their so many rocks on mars?

DEBUNKER

Aug 27 2005, 09:47 AM

QUOTE(PODNickerz @ Aug 27 2005, 02:37 AM)

Alright my stupid question of the day is:
Why are their so many rocks on mars?
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Why is there soo much sand in the desert.

eveningsky339

Aug 27 2005, 12:27 PM

I thought Mars couldn't support life. The atmosphere is too thin, it's basically nothing but carbon dyoxide anyway, and it's too stinking cold.

DEBUNKER

Aug 27 2005, 04:45 PM

Beautiful never the less.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/10marsexpress/

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=11888

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ma...is.html?1822004

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ma...lus.html?132004

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM2EAHHZTD_0.html

fallingalien

Aug 27 2005, 08:43 PM

looks like photoshop is guilty of another UFO picture

DEBUNKER

Aug 28 2005, 02:24 PM

What makes you say that?

riotboy555

Aug 28 2005, 02:27 PM

QUOTE

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/10marsexpress/
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=11888

I like those.

hazzard

Aug 29 2005, 10:52 AM

QUOTE(fallingalien @ Aug 27 2005, 08:43 PM)

looks like photoshop is guilty of another UFO picture
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A UFO?

dantheman2435

Sep 3 2005, 04:01 PM

Already we are polluting other planets by leaving our junk there.

DEBUNKER

Sep 3 2005, 04:24 PM

QUOTE(dantheman2435 @ Sep 3 2005, 04:01 PM)

Already we are polluting other planets by leaving our junk there.
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We have sent probes,rovers and landers to almost every planet in our starsystem,I wouldn`t exactly call that polution.

I call it progress.

However,what we are doing to our own planet is another thing.

Elysiumfire

Sep 5 2005, 03:23 AM

Pardon my ignorance, but Mars dos not have any atmosphere...does it?, and if that's the case, it won't have any winds...true? So, apart from meteor impacts, and possibly volcanic activity - which we have never observed occurring on Mars, what else could be helping to erode the mountains and surface?

Regards

Elysiumfire

ROGER

Sep 5 2005, 03:43 AM

I started with a nasty comment but changed my post, Yes MARS has an atmospher, winds, a weak magnetic field, and Dust Devils.

DEBUNKER

Sep 5 2005, 10:58 AM

QUOTE(Elysiumfire @ Sep 5 2005, 03:23 AM)

Pardon my ignorance, but Mars dos not have any atmosphere...does it?, and if that's the case, it won't have any winds...true? So, apart from meteor impacts, and possibly volcanic activity - which we have never observed occurring on Mars, what else could be helping to erode the mountains and surface?

Regards

Elysiumfire
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Yes there is an atmosphere on Mars,a thin one.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...DP0645L0M1.HTML

MedicTJ

Sep 5 2005, 10:55 PM

On top of that, there are also winds. Wind speeds in a full-out Martian dust storm can hit 70 mph or greater. That's near hurricane-force.

DEBUNKER

Sep 7 2005, 03:13 PM

If you ever wonderd what spirit is doing on Mars at night.....

From its “top of the world” vantage point, Spirit has snagged images of the two Mars moons—Phobos and Deimos.

The robot is also assessing weather features in the dark of the night on Mars. Other nighttime duties are being discussed, such as charting meteor showers on the red planet.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/05090...rit_update.html

Elysiumfire

Sep 7 2005, 11:42 PM

Many thanks for the enlightenment...kudos to you all...with or without nasty comments (huh? Roger?).

Regards

Elysiumfire

hazzard

Sep 8 2005, 08:33 AM

Thanks to the dust devils that keep Spirit's solar panels clean, the rover now produces too much power (!) which can be discarded in nightly observations.

Spirit has been used to image Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The latter looks like a star, but surface features are visible on Phobos. The raw images in the MER website are poorly stretched, but better press release images might be released soon.

DEBUNKER

Sep 8 2005, 07:04 PM

Flood Plains on Mars.

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/wa...rs.html?1062004

Northern Rim Of Hellas Basin.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...02&f=52&t=49398

This is what it would look like if you were flying over a region of Mars' Valles Marineris at an altitude of 5,000 metres (3.1 miles).

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ne...sma.html?382004

The eroded valleys of Dao and Niger Valles.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMC1IW4QWD_0.html

The grabens of Claritas Fossae.

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsex...ossae_hires.jpg

ImAnAlienWa8iD

Sep 10 2005, 04:53 PM

Do you folks really think that Mars is dead? Man, when I came to this site, I was a skeptic, but then thought to myself, how in the world could that huge planet be completely null? No life, nothing of any significance. To think that all of the other planets are completely dead like mars makes me wonder - if it is true, are we extremely special? Why just us? Is our planet next in line? I really hope there is something on mars and I am alive to hear the news.

Will NASA be releasing a flying probe any time before the next generation? I do remember reading something about a flying probe that would be launched 2010 (not sure about that). Anyone know anything about this?

DEBUNKER

Sep 11 2005, 08:47 AM

QUOTE(ImAnAlienWa8iD @ Sep 10 2005, 04:53 PM)

Do you folks really think that Mars is dead? Man, when I came to this site, I was a skeptic, but then thought to myself, how in the world could that huge planet be completely null? No life, nothing of any significance. To think that all of the other planets are completely dead like mars makes me wonder - if it is true, are we extremely special? Why just us? Is our planet next in line? I really hope there is something on mars and I am alive to hear the news.

Will NASA be releasing a flying probe any time before the next generation? I do remember reading something about a flying probe that would be launched 2010 (not sure about that). Anyone know anything about this?
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I personnaly believe that Mars probably once suppoted life, nowadays though... well I suppose anyhtings possible, single-celled life and bactteria... probably, but I wouldn't of thought that there's any "intelligent" life as we know it... Hmm... "Life as we know it" interesting phrase don't ya think?

Here you go,some good links..

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ma...ve.html?1732005

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12mar98_1.htm

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ro...rt.html?1532005

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/fr...rs.html?2222005

hazzard

Sep 12 2005, 08:34 AM

QUOTE(ImAnAlienWa8iD @ Sep 10 2005, 04:53 PM)

Do you folks really think that Mars is dead? Man, when I came to this site, I was a skeptic, but then thought to myself, how in the world could that huge planet be completely null? No life, nothing of any significance. To think that all of the other planets are completely dead like mars makes me wonder - if it is true, are we extremely special? Why just us? Is our planet next in line? I really hope there is something on mars and I am alive to hear the news.

Will NASA be releasing a flying probe any time before the next generation? I do remember reading something about a flying probe that would be launched 2010 (not sure about that). Anyone know anything about this?
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Part from the two rovers there is also the Mars orbiter and Mars express.

About life.....
"These are very important questions for future cosmic research on places like Europa, comets, the Martian ice caps," Abyzov said of the mysteries in the ancient Antarctic ice."

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12mar98_1.htm

DEBUNKER

Sep 14 2005, 01:58 PM

Here is anothe good link about Mars.

http://www.marsgeo.com/