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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sarah on January 23, 2008, 05:30:34 PM
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(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00270/mars2-385_270351a.jpg)
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00270/mars3851_270350a.jpg)
Is it a rock? A trick of Martian light on the eye? Or Osama Bin Laden waving from his barren hideout 300 million miles from planet earth?
NASA scientists have been puzzled by the peculiarly life-like image which has been beamed back to earth by one of their two robot rovers that are currently trundling about the surface of the red planet, on the hunt for clues of life on Mars.
It will delight spacewatchers who have been so far disappointed by the lack of images of little green men captured by the twin vehicles on their four year mission.
The alien figure was pictured at the far left of one of the panoramic photographs taken by the exploration rover, Spirit, from the top of a low plateau in late 2007.
The robot vehicle and its twin, Opportunity, have been roving around on Mars since completing their first successful mission in April 2004. Their principle goal is to hunt for geological evidence of water, that suggest an environment which may once have been hospitable to life.
Having been launched from Cape Canaveral, in Florida, in June and July in 2003, they travelled 487 million and 456 million km respectively to opposite ends of the planet, where they went on to explore the dusty, rock-strewn landscape.
Each solar-powered rover is a sort of the mechanical equivalent of a geologist walking the surface of Mars. The mast-mounted cameras are mounted 1.5 meters(5 feet) high and provide 360-degree, stereoscopic, humanlike views of the terrain.
The robotic arm is capable of movement in much the same way as a human arm with an elbow and wrist, and can place instruments directly up against rock and soil targets of interest. In the mechanical "fist" of the arm is a microscopic camera that serves the same purpose as a geologist's handheld magnifying lens.
The budget for the project is around $820million.
Last week, a similar probe captured the first images from the "dark side" of Mercury, which showed previously unseen hemisphere from 17,000 miles.
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Heck Bigfoot moved to Mars what the Heck? :-X
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Heck Bigfoot moved to Mars what the Heck? :-X
Yeah I know, it really freaked me out.
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It's interesting to say the least
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WOW!
That's Mars? It looks like Arizona!
And that thing is weird, it really does look like bigfoot.
i agree Mills, i also thought that might be somewhere in the US desert.
That's scary! :o :o
mama!!!!!!
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They should take another photo,
at the exact same place, any other time,
and if this thing is always here, in this position,
that will prove, sufficiently I guess,
that it is some stone...
:)
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Smart Idea.... However if that thing starts waving I am out of here.
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They should take another photo,
at the exact same place, any other time,
and if this thing is always here, in this position,
that will prove, sufficiently I guess,
that it is some stone...
:)
Good idea Husar
:::D :::D @ Kansas
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Its Obama's Mammie
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The Challenger Crew threw the schwartze out of the space station and locked the door.
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The Challenger Crew threw the schwartze out of the space station and locked the door.
:::D :::D
And the reason why he turns green, is because there are no whites to look after him...and keep him clean :::D
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Boeregeneraal, you laugh at my jokes!
This proves that you are a genius!
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Boeregeneraal, you laugh at my jokes!
This proves that you are a genius!
:::D :::D
That was a good one, Massuh O0
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Its Cleopatra Jefferson UMMMMMMMM HMMMMMMMMMM!
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Its Cleopatra Jefferson UMMMMMMMM HMMMMMMMMMM!
:::D
who's that :::D
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Now that we have sited a black beast on Mars, I suggest we enact a humanitarian effort to help him reunite with his brothers and sisters, he's probably lonely isn't he? We can lift all the blacks from the yoke of oppression and let them determine their own lives free from the white man. We won't set up any oxygen or atmosphere for them when they get there, I'm sure their brilliant scientists and chemists can figure it out. O0
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Now that we have sited a black beast on Mars, I suggest we enact a humanitarian effort to help him reunite with his brothers and sisters, he's probably lonely isn't he? We can lift all the blacks from the yoke of oppression and let them determine their own lives free from the white man. We won't set up any oxygen or atmosphere for them when they get there, I'm sure their brilliant scientists and chemists can figure it out. O0
Yes!!!!!! O0 O0 O0
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Smart Idea.... However if that thing starts waving I am out of here.
:::D
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Smart Idea.... However if that thing starts waving I am out of here.
:::D
id wet myself!
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I think it is a wacko conspiracy theory. In the late 80s or 90s, when the below image was taken, they thought it was a person on mars. Turns out it was a mountain.
(http://www.coverups.com/photos/mars_face.jpg)
We see what we want to.
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hummmm....Mars.......Might be a good place to send the Schwartzas.
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We can send them to Uranus
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Yes, blacks absolutely hate the cold...so give em mars...they'll be delighted, up until the planet is no longer facing the sun (mmuhahahaahah *evil-smily*)
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(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00270/mars2-385_270351a.jpg)
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00270/mars3851_270350a.jpg)
That's not Mars.
That's Arizona.
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(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00270/mars2-385_270351a.jpg)
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00270/mars3851_270350a.jpg)
That's not Mars.
That's Arizona.
you might be right Scriabin
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"It's a tiny rock only a few inches high. It's only a few feet from the rover!"
mmm...i don't think so, if one looks to the mountain on the outlines, and compare it to the rest of the picture
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One of the Mars Rovers took that picture, it could just roll right up to it and take a closer look. :)
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Guys!
Right in the middle of the pic, bottom. What is that, i assume it's part of the rover? :o
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Guys!
Right in the middle of the pic, bottom. What is that, i assume it's part of the rover? :o
Yup, solar panel. :)
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Guys!
Right in the middle of the pic, bottom. What is that, i assume it's part of the rover? :o
Yup, solar panel. :)
ah ok, it almost looks like a camp :D
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I saw it, think it's a rock though. :'(
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a bit too organised for a rock, everything is perfectlypositioned etc