Odd Things Encountered On Mars' Surface

[Frideswide]

They do any and all tactics to support the overall strategies.

frideswide who did stuff with ESA. As well as be on the Archery team!

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Here's a few more from the Curiosity archives, showing objects, with vaguely plant or tree-like appearances (plus one, which looks a bit like a decorative plate or shield).

Almost certainly pareidolia, but how I wish an astronaut could stroll over, maybe pick the object up and examine it with their own eyes.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

I thought the first one looked vaguely cactus-like.
Must admit that the vast majority of claims for Martian life, including gorillas, lizards, rats, traffic-lights, skulls, cannon balls etc. are downright silly, but I would dearly like to know how erosion can explain stalk-like objects emerging from the sand, sometimes with lateral branches.

 

[Nosmo King]

Great pics Bless!! Number 3 looks like a lawn mower! And the first one could be a petrified Pillsbury Doughboy! Sans toque, naturellement.

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I thought it was a gopher doing tai-chi

 

[Nosmo King]

I thought the first one looked vaguely cactus-like.
Must admit that the vast majority of claims for Martian life, including gorillas, lizards, rats, traffic-lights, skulls, cannon balls etc. are downright silly, but I would dearly like to know how erosion can explain stalk-like objects emerging from the sand, sometimes with lateral branches.

Pic 4 looks like the head of a buried Cyberman

 

[CharmerKamelion]

Pic 4 looks like the head of a buried Cyberman

I wonder if Pic 4 could be ....

..... Handles, the decapitated (but still activated) Cyberman head that Matt Smith's Doctor became rather attached to in his final episode.

 

[Analogue Boy]

That’s an Ewok Sandboarding. Definitely.

 

[Mythopoeika]

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That’s an Ewok Sandboarding. Definitely.

Or a Jawa.

 

[CharmerKamelion]

I can't help wondering if that Ewok-y thing is actually two different rocks, one a rather phallic pillar, and the other one (or other two maybe?) a separate rock altogether, lying behind the pillar, thereby creating that vaguely humanoid illusion. I've done my clumsy best to illustrate what I mean below....

 

[Nosmo King]

I can't help wondering if that Ewok-y thing is actually two different rocks, one a rather phallic pillar, and the other one (or other two maybe?) a separate rock altogether, lying behind the pillar, thereby creating that vaguely humanoid illusion. I've done my clumsy best to illustrate what I mean below....

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Its the dancing gopher from 'caddyshack'

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Found one more strange object, suggestive of vegetation, as spotted by Curiosity back in 2013.
Does look somewhat like a pale plant stalk or flower pistil curling out of the soil.

 

[maximus otter]

…I would dearly like to know how erosion can explain stalk-like objects emerging from the sand, sometimes with lateral branches.

Fulgurites being exposed as sand around them is blown away?

maximus otter

 

[maximus otter]

Found one more strange object, suggestive of vegetation, as spotted by Curiosity back in 2013.
Does look somewhat like a pale plant stalk or flower pistil curling out of the soil.

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maximus otter

 

[Trevp666]

Fulgurites being exposed as sand around them is blown away?

No lightning on Mars

 

[ramonmercado]

Found one more strange object, suggestive of vegetation, as spotted by Curiosity back in 2013.
Does look somewhat like a pale plant stalk or flower pistil curling out of the soil.

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It's Kermit the frog!

 

[CharmerKamelion]

Dammit those photos are so intriguing! I can't wait until travel restrictions are lifted so I can go there and have a good look at some of those things myself!!!

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

I did wonder if it was some sort of crystal deposit (quartz?).
But, on Earth certainly, crystals generally grow in geometric patterns with straight sides, rather than curling, as appears in the photo.

 

[maximus otter]

No lightning on Mars

Lightning Detected on Mars​

maximus otter

 

[Trevp666]

Lightning Detected on Mars​

maximus otter

Well whaddya know......I retract my short-sighted comment then!
I bet that there isn't a LOT of lightning on Mars though.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Fulgurites can be produced by an asteroid impact - which may be more likely on Mars.
Still not sure that fits with the curled shape though.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Lightning Detected on Mars​

maximus otter

Lightning is mostly very weak on Mars because of a thin atmosphere.

 

[Timble2]

Lightning is mostly very weak on Mars because of a thin atmosphere.

The atmosphere was a lot thicker in the past, and there were ancient oceans, so there'd have been a lot more weather. Fulgurites are effectively glass, which will persist over geologic eras (glass'll break down slowly in moist conditions, but most of Mars has been dry and cold for a very, very long time).

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Curiosity snapped this rather odd, wedge-shaped object.
It's approximately 3 x 2.5 metres, is of notably darker material than the surrounding terrain and appears to have sharply delineated edges.

Some rather silly claims in the article, but the object surely merited a closer look by Curiosity.

https://anomalien.com/the-wreckage-of-the-alien-ship-was-discovered-by-a-researcher-on-mars/

 

[CharmerKamelion]

Hmm. Interesting stuff. Seems like Curiosity may be showing a distinct lack of curiosity.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Curiosity snapped this rather odd, wedge-shaped object.
It's approximately 3 x 2.5 metres, is of notably darker material than the surrounding terrain and appears to have sharply delineated edges.

Some rather silly claims in the article, but the object surely merited a closer look by Curiosity.

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https://anomalien.com/the-wreckage-of-the-alien-ship-was-discovered-by-a-researcher-on-mars/

Looks like an open-topped boat.
Left over from a previous, long-dead civilisation.

 

[CharmerKamelion]

Looks like an open-topped boat.
Left over from a previous, long-dead civilisation.

Crikey, Mytho, it does indeed. It's even got the little wooden cross-pieces to sit on while you're rowing. Remarkable, if it is just a simulacrum. If they got in closer, maybe we would be able to see the rowlocks (matron!)

 

[Mythopoeika]

If they got in closer, maybe we would be able to see the rowlocks (matron!)

If only they would. But they never do.

 

[CharmerKamelion]

If only they would. But they never do.

Maybe they do, but they just don't tell us what they find. Because.....

 

[charliebrown]

Never
A
Straight
Answer

NASA

 

[Sid]

Curiosity snapped this rather odd, wedge-shaped object.
It's approximately 3 x 2.5 metres, is of notably darker material than the surrounding terrain and appears to have sharply delineated edges.

Some rather silly claims in the article, but the object surely merited a closer look by Curiosity.

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https://anomalien.com/the-wreckage-of-the-alien-ship-was-discovered-by-a-researcher-on-mars/

I get the impression that it is like a hole that has appeared at the top of a collapsed underground chasm, leaving remnants of a kind of torn apart upper surface structure in view through the dark hole.