Freaky arse Mars!

[Serren]

Take a look at these photos the Mars rover Opportunity has taken over the past week. That HAS to be life of some sort! FREAKY!!!



and

[Quo]

it's the friggin blue Army! I knew you guys were from another planet...

mind control during the PGL War is illegal, just so you know.

[Wondermonkey]

Is this Transformers footage?





Those are pretty damn cool though.

[Swasagon]

wo, interesting stuff!

[BrewCityUpstart]

Space is cool.

[Peench]

Originally Posted by BrewCityUpstart

Space is cool.

I totally agree.

Awesome photos Serren - thanks for sharing them!

[Grenic]

Wow, nice resolution on your camera Serren... what brand is it?

Any idea what the scale is on these pictures. Trying to get an idea how large the blue blobs are!

[Grenic]

Also, what are those ridges in the first pic? Is that where the rover drove over the "speciman".

lol... I can just see control center... "Uh oh, did we just destroy the first alien life form we have ever found? Dammit!"

[Serren]

They call the spheres "Blueberries" or just "berries". They average 3.4mm in diameter, with a maximum size of recorded of about 5mm. So a bit bigger then bb's ish. That might help with scale. The tracks in the one photo give more scale, as the rovers tires are probaly about 6 inches wide or so.

The really interesting thing is that there are two sides to what they are. One side thinks they are a plant life or the likes, something "alive". They argue that living specimens all have a characteristic upper size limit: you never see carrots the size of telephone poles, for instance, or corn kernels the size of a quarter. This is called asymmetric logistic peak, or just logistic statistics.

The other side thinks they are mineral deposits of some sort that through time, wind and erosion have formed.

But there is nothing like them on Earth. And why are they all the same size if they are just naturally occuring? We need a poll! Rock like or plant like?

[Serren]

Originally Posted by Grenic

Also, what are those ridges in the first pic? Is that where the rover drove over the "speciman".

lol... I can just see control center... "Uh oh, did we just destroy the first alien life form we have ever found? Dammit!"

Leave it to the Americans to crush the first aliens on accident!

[Peench]

Nature (at least here on Earth) does some pretty amazing stuff. Take this for example:





Giant's causeway in Northern Ireland. I visited this place when I was there in 1995. It is awesome. The symmetry of the rocks has been eroded by water and presumably wind, but pretty amazing that these formations are all natural - aside from the story behind it of course.

[Crippler]

The last I read, they are hematite spheres: http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...es_040319.html

And Earth has it's own variation: http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...es_040616.html

[GoatMother]

Is that from that Val Kilmer flick where he bangs the Matrix chic?

[Serren]

I am not a berry expert, but here is a link to people who are trying to be. Check it out. Crazy stuff!

LINK

[GoatMother]

I see a big foot print in the upper mid right:

[Crippler]

That is obviously Krazy Ken's footprint. The PS3 warps time and space and allows him to travel the galaxy. 4D baby.