Rock or something else on Mars?

TipTop said:
Anyone who thinks we are alone in the universe must be either insane, or very very stupid.
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Why? There is no evidence of other people. As yet, there's no evidence of other life of any kind.

It appears very likely that there is life on other planets, probably people on some of them, but it is neither insane nor particularly stupid to think that there isn't any, given the lack of evidence.

It's irrelevant to the...ideas...Magick and Teki put forward, anyway. Their ideas are far more...creative...than simply thinking that there are probably other people on other worlds, somewhere.
 
ChroniC said:
We are insanely lucky to have so many circumstances that work so well, but in a chaotic universe someone somewhere has to have it good, it just happens to be us.
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And what do we do...produce and watch shows like xfactor. I'm sure another species are getting on with it better than us.
 
No idea where the photo came from so I couldn't care less.
If I was however the person on the other end of receiving pictures from probes sent out and seeing them for the first time, I would be surprised!
 
To be honest Im amazed Teki missed this far more impressive image of Mars

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mrk said:
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:p:D


manic_man said:
Well, whatever it is, it does look like it landed, though given its size, not with much force.

I would almost guarantee its a rock of some kind, however it could be off-planet debris that has impacted the surface?

Or (more likely) it is a boulder from the top of those rather large mountain type things (i.e. dunes i assume) to either side of the impact area, if it had toppled down and stopped to rest there, that would explain the small impact, there also appears to be evidence of surface disturbance to the left of the image, could be its slippage track covered up (no idea how long it has been there)

Or, its a large rock formation under the surface and that is the top poking out as the sand is eroded from around.

Interesting photo either way, I love lunar and martian photography, its about as surreal as imagery gets imo (when you consider what you are really looking at)
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That was my thinking too, looks like an impact "zone" around the object and as you can't really see any detail further up the image (the cliffs/dunes) you can't see any slippage lines. What is at odds with that is the shape, it's very angular and seems to be on it's own, as well as the fact the rock of the cliff doesn't look like it could make a rock of that kind. Having said that that was one glance of a rubbish photo, proper analysis by someone with experience of planetary sciences may find something different.

The other option could be a bit of debris (solar panel?) fallen from orbit from one of our probes, although I would have thought it would have broken up more?

Either way it's almost certainly not some kind of alien creation... The first and second set of images also look different to me?:confused:
 
Tefal said:
what makes you say this are you a geologist?:confused:

*SNIP*


Pillars of rock aren't exactly uncommon.
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To be fair to him they aren't remotely the same, weathering will create smooth rounded edges just like your photos show, the OP image however shows sharp edges. Even rock that have a tendency to split into square/rectangular shapes (eg granite and some sandstones) weather smooth (think Dartmoor tors). To me that means it's unlikely to be a pillar as it's very unlikely to be eroded into that shape, backed up by the lack of any other features like that near it. However it may have split off from the cliff like section due to weathering and cracking.

(And yes I am a geologist (or sorts))


platinum87 said:
i got 1920*1200 and that image is so massive i dont know whats going on
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I was thinking the same.:D
 
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