Curious fossil-like artifact on Mars

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-http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...0040202a/MSPan
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Regards, mv

Thank you! I found it too.
Interesting stuff mv ...
Al



On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:26:59 GMT, "Alfred A. Aburto Jr."
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Here is a close-up. -
http://images.fok.nl/upload/schedelfeaturemars.jpg
From the shades you can deduct it's peculiar form.
Can't believe they would ignore it.


Where does one find the original jpg (at the JPL/NASA site)?



There are actually some more strangly colored (blueish/whitish)
features in the same area that stand out from the rest of the picture.
Maybe it are remains of the mission's landing itself?
- http://images.fok.nl/upload/mars_fossils.jpg (at the right)

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:21:56 -0500, Tony Sivori
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junekis wrote:

If you look at the image at
http://www.lyle.org/mars/oldmars/marstrue.jpg

in the lower right quadrant, just below the middle of the airbag
drag
marks, there is a series of oddly regular pairs of white dots in the
martian soil

Some people I have shown this to agree that it might be a fossil,
others
are skeptical.

I see what you are talking about. I also agree with Martin, that
similar
effects can be seen elsewhere in the same picture. The area to the
left
of
the large black rock in the center of the photo has several areas of
regularly spaced contrast and texture changes. It looks to me like
they
are wind ripple produced by the interaction of wind and different
sized
grains of sand.

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Tony Sivori