April 7, 2011

IS THERE A PHAROAH STATUE ON MARS?

Here's the NASA photo of a section of Mars in black and 
white and magnified a zillion times to show up more detail.
Trust me, the photo isn't as interesting in low resolution--
you'd miss a lot. Visit the original photo at NASA.org.




ORIGINAL SITE CAPTION (PROVIDED BY ABOVETOPSECRET.COM):

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity rover spent about 300 sols (Martian days) during 2006 and 2007 traversing the rim of Victoria Crater. Besides looking for a good place to enter the crater, the rover obtained images of rock outcrops exposed at several cliffs along the way.

The cliff in this image from Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) is informally named Cape St. Vincent. It is a promontory approximately 12 meters (39 feet) tall on the northern rim of Victoria crater, near the farthest point along the rover's traverse around the rim. Layers seen in Cape St. Vincent have proven to be among the best examples of meter scale cross-bedding observed on Mars to date. Cross-bedding is a geologic term for rock layers which are inclined relative to the horizontal and which are indicative of ancient sand dune deposits. In order to get a better look at these outcrops, Pancam "super-resolution" imaging techniques were utilized. Super-resolution is a type of imaging mode which acquires many pictures of the same target to reconstruct a digital image at a higher resolution than is native to the camera. These super-resolution images have allowed scientists to discern that the rocks at Victoria Crater once represented a large dune field, not unlike the Sahara desert on Earth, and that this dune field migrated with an ancient wind flowing from the north to the south across the region. Other rover chemical and mineral measurements have shown that many of the ancient sand dunes studied in Meridiani Planum were modified by surface and subsurface liquid water long ago.

This is a Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Panoramic Camera image acquired on sol 1167 (May 7, 2007), and was constructed from a mathematical combination of 16 different blue filter (480 nm) images. ]


I found the photo intriguing and discovered
a few odd or puzzling images I highlighted...




I noticed odd round pipe-like structures:







And this pipe-like image is hidden in the shadows:




But a little brightening reveals a hint of something weird:




I'm not the only person that has spotted the same strange objects.
Just check out AboveTopSecret.com, and you'll see what I mean.

Next to the Pharaoh-looking image:




. . . is another crevice which shows a peep of something
that clearly has vertical striations that are contrary
to the rest of the stones:




As well, to the right is a crevice and the vague hints of
vertical striations (see NASA's photo) and
some sort of patch or decoration, it seems:




I saw stones that looked like facial images. Here's one:




AND I found three images along the path above the
Pharaoh-looking image, that had been obscured:







What's that about? What's being hidden?
I found there are a quite a few ledges--
what I think of as ledges--and wonder
what else is hidden in those crevices that
are out of viewing range. Hmmmm.

I also saw an odd skull-like image. Could be
a trick of the eye but it sure popped out at me:



Here I have a collage of my favorite images found on the NASA Mars photo:




It was fun studying the photo. Thanks NASA!

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