My first thought. :lol:Moooksta said:Could part of the Rover fallen off...given it's waiting out bad weather?
Mythopoeika said:If you look at the 'Before' image and zoom in, you will see that there is something there in the place where this strange rock has appeared.
My theory is that a chunk of rock sprang up as a result of a circular frost fracture
Obligatory youtube clip of the rat-bat-spiderkrakenten said:Next thing, the Rat-Bat-Spider appears and tells us to go away!
(for the younger members, the Rat-Bat-Spider was a monster in a monumentally cheesy movie called 'Angry Red Planet' When the Earthmen shot it's eyes out, I felt genuinely bad, I thought of it as some kind of hamster. Sentimental me!)
There's a rather large rock in between some others. In the pictures where it's circled (pics 3 and 5), it's generally darker than the other rocks and not as smooth as the other large rocks pictured. This object does not appear in pictures 2 and 4, indicating it has moved. Lighter spots that are markings that are apparently on this object indicate that it has maintained it's orientation, eg it's not an object that rolled over on it's top. In picture five, two small dark objects appear that were not in picture 4.garrick92 said:Martian creature photographed moving about by Spirit Rover sequence?.
If the photographs show what is claimed, then an explanation is definitely needed. But to be frank, I can't see whatever it is they are alleged to show. If anyone can find links to better versions of the pics, please post them.
I wish NASA would do more analysis of stuff like this.
eburacum said:I wish NASA would do more analysis of stuff like this.
They do. What do you think they do with the pictures- blow their noses on them? These are some of the most expensive images ever made.
garrick92 said:BTW: Passing curiosity, from British TV news a day or two ago. ITN interviews NASA chief for story about the feasibility of establishing a manned martian base, and he mentions almost in passing that 'life may exist on mars now'. A real WTF moment for me, not even mentioned in the text accompanying the video, and I am amazed that no other journalist has picked up on it.
I think so. The two large foreground rocks appear to be on a ridge, while the rock in the background is lower down, probably in a crater - a feature which is quite common on Mars. This means that the mysterious 'moving' rock is probably quite a bit further away than it looks.garrick92 said:But is that the whole explanation?
The fourth and fifth photographs in the sequence don't appear to fit the parallax explanation at all. In fact, I find the sudden appearance of the 'object' at the left of photo #5 very surprising.
Can you explain those too? (This isn't meant insolently, I am genuinely curious).
garrick92 said:Incidentally *is* there some freeware photoshop-type stuff that even a sausage-fingered luddite like me could learn to use? If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
The parallax explanation is particularly easy to see in the first two images I posted. It is certainly correct, but very difficult to visualise in these rather muddy reproductions.Mythopoeika said:I don't buy the 'parallax' explanation at all, which is why I find this to be especially weird.