oldrover Posted March 28, 2019 #1 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Yeah, this is definitely true it's been reported in the Daily Mail. They have such exacting standards and journalistic integrity that I rely on them for everything.. I have to go now to check what does/doesn't give me cancer today. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted March 28, 2019 #2 Share Posted March 28, 2019 7 minutes ago, oldrover said: Yeah, this is definitely true it's been reported in the Daily Mail. They have such exacting standards and journalistic integrity that I rely on them for everything.. I have to go now to check what does/doesn't give me cancer today. I miss my British tabloid Sunday Boobs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the13bats Posted March 28, 2019 #3 Share Posted March 28, 2019 1 hour ago, oldrover said: Yeah, this is definitely true it's been reported in the Daily Mail. They have such exacting standards and journalistic integrity that I rely on them for everything.. I have to go now to check what does/doesn't give me cancer today. scroll down past this story from another thread https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/chupacabra-suspected-of-killing-second-person-in-honduras the next story is these alleged mushrooms again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmcom Posted March 28, 2019 #4 Share Posted March 28, 2019 NASA will never verify one of these as touching one to see if spores fly out, may damage the rovers robotic arm, and it only looks like spores because of the suns angle, and how the image is processed, and swamp gas, whether they cranked up the red filter usual reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereologist Posted March 28, 2019 #5 Share Posted March 28, 2019 These do look like concretions weathering out of the rock. Anyone that has been in a sandstone area knows that there are purplish spots int he rock. This is where the hematite has been concentrated and is forming crystals within the pore space of the rock. Sometimes these can become quite hard as we see in the photo of the concretion balls that have weathered out of the rock. There are numerous ones that can be seen in the rocks west of Las Vegas in Red Rocks. There is a rock climb there called Lotta Balls in which you actually stand and pull on these balls sticking out of the wall. These objects look to me like concretions being weathered out by wind blown particles. The harder concretions maintain their shape as the softer bedrock is eroded. This link will show a hand on one of the balls at the rock climbing area: https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/107938377/balls This link will show you the ball studded wall. https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/105733745/looking-up-at-the-balls In this link notice the "mushrooms" in the white zone. These weaker balls would be broken ff by the weight of people. https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/5200013/2nd-pitch Here is an article on how these balls form and you can see photos of plenty of these balls weathered out of the bedrock. https://www.livescience.com/47936-how-moqui-marbles-form.html And here is the clincher. These are known as Martian blueberries. https://www.space.com/17620-mars-rover-strange-photo-martian-rocks.html?_ga=2.169489825.1059575690.1553785387-2038226158.1553785386 BTW, these balls have been known since 2004. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted March 28, 2019 #6 Share Posted March 28, 2019 39 minutes ago, the13bats said: scroll down past this story from another thread https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/chupacabra-suspected-of-killing-second-person-in-honduras the next story is these alleged mushrooms again. And the baby monitor ghost story. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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