Mars Flower or bit of plastic?

TarJak · 01-07-13, 07:00 PM

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...108-2cdig.html

No doubt the conspiracy theorists will be having a field day with this little gem. It will be interesting to see what NASA ends up concluding what it is. I think the trick will be trying to get analysis other than just the photo.

Platapus · 01-07-13, 07:53 PM

This is one of the problems with extraterrestrial photography. Pictures taken on Mars (with its sun angles and atmosphere) will often look different from pictures taken on Earth (with its sun exposure and atmosphere)

For stuff like this, you really need multiple photographs taken at different angles and different times in order to properly identify things.

In this image, I can easily see some exposed ore that halates (glares) in that combination of sun exposure and atmosphere. But with one image, and a reproduced one at that, it is impossible to determine what is or is not "there".

Oberon · 01-07-13, 09:28 PM

AVGWarhawk · 01-08-13, 08:41 AM

I think it is a corn chip.

danasan · 01-08-13, 12:50 PM

That's definitely a mars flower, no doubt about that...

Takeda Shingen · 01-08-13, 03:10 PM

Did anyone check to see if it had Jesus' face on it?

Jimbuna · 01-09-13, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I think it is a corn chip.

Damn!....a potato chip I may have had a use for.

01-09-13, 07:54 PM

Back when we started launching stuff at Mars, the SPCA forced NASA to use fake monkeys.
Those were filled with styrofoam peanuts.
Most of those missions crashed and burned on entry.
This is just some fake monkey gut blown around from those failed missions.

01-07-13, 07:00 PM	#1
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Mars Flower or bit of plastic? http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...108-2cdig.html No doubt the conspiracy theorists will be having a field day with this little gem. It will be interesting to see what NASA ends up concluding what it is. I think the trick will be trying to get analysis other than just the photo.

01-07-13, 07:53 PM	#2
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	This is one of the problems with extraterrestrial photography. Pictures taken on Mars (with its sun angles and atmosphere) will often look different from pictures taken on Earth (with its sun exposure and atmosphere) For stuff like this, you really need multiple photographs taken at different angles and different times in order to properly identify things. In this image, I can easily see some exposed ore that halates (glares) in that combination of sun exposure and atmosphere. But with one image, and a reproduced one at that, it is impossible to determine what is or is not "there". __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

01-08-13, 08:41 AM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I think it is a corn chip. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

01-08-13, 12:50 PM	#5
danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	That's definitely a mars flower, no doubt about that... __________________ "I invite you to go inside this submergible hole in the water where you can nicely hide from destroyers."

01-07-13, 09:28 PM	#3
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20

01-08-13, 03:10 PM	#6
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Did anyone check to see if it had Jesus' face on it?

01-09-13, 07:54 PM	#8
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Back when we started launching stuff at Mars, the SPCA forced NASA to use fake monkeys. Those were filled with styrofoam peanuts. Most of those missions crashed and burned on entry. This is just some fake monkey gut blown around from those failed missions.