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What's that? New rock in Mars rover photos baffles scientists, fans
chron.com ^ | January 16, 2014 | Carol Christian |

Posted on 01/16/2014 6:44:06 PM PST by BenLurkin

Practically overnight, an unexplained piece of rock has shown up on photos from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, according to the digital Russian TV network RT (Russia Today).

The rover hasn't moved in over a month, as it waits for better weather, but a photo taken on Sol 3540 (Jan. 8, or the 3,540th Martian solar day since the Opportunity rover landed) shows a rock that wasn't visible in previous photos taken on Sol 3536.

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Staffers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California who maintain the rover camera (pancam) database for NASA have named the rock Pinnacle Island.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


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KEYWORDS: mars; nasa; opportunity; stevesquyres
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To: huldah1776
LOL first thing I thought, and laughed at post of Kirk & Alien.

Yes, but how many of us knew at a glance that was The Horta?

41 posted on 01/16/2014 7:29:54 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: SunkenCiv

/mark


42 posted on 01/16/2014 7:30:38 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: JRandomFreeper

Looks like popcorn to me. How many people are in the Rover anyway?

Seriously it is an interesting looking rock.


43 posted on 01/16/2014 7:30:55 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

In bass or treble cleft?


44 posted on 01/16/2014 7:34:31 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: mrsmith

Being a metate, that opens up another whole other issue.


45 posted on 01/16/2014 7:34:38 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: mrsmith

46 posted on 01/16/2014 7:35:02 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: BenLurkin

Stupid question time: Why is it that when I go to the link,I see no pics that you guys are posting here...are these from the article?...Has happened alot to me. They talk about pics, go to link, no pics. I don’t know what I am doing wrong....(see tagline)...lol


47 posted on 01/16/2014 7:40:12 PM PST by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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To: mrsmith

I agree. If they are talking about the rock near the foot of the cross that someone carved into a paving stone, it’s in both pictures.


48 posted on 01/16/2014 7:42:43 PM PST by PAR35
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To: BenLurkin
"Let he who is without Sun cast the first stone."


49 posted on 01/16/2014 7:43:13 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: BenLurkin; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Colorized:

Close-up from another angle:


50 posted on 01/16/2014 7:43:45 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Rabbits are from Mars. . . .)
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To: mrsmith
>> the rock of phages...

You should be mercilessly flogged with a wet spaghetti.

51 posted on 01/16/2014 7:44:34 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Louis Foxwell
Piano version, Baptist Hymnal, 1956 Convention Press, pg 103. Mom's favorite song. My first piano piece with 2 flats.

Oy... talk about specific...

/johnny

52 posted on 01/16/2014 7:46:18 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bolobaby
The atmospheric pressure is so low on Mars there wouldn’t be enough PSI to move a rock,

Well... they have dust devils on Mars.


53 posted on 01/16/2014 7:47:44 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: higgmeister
but how many of us knew at a glance that was The Horta?

WAY too many.

And some of us date girls.

/johnny

54 posted on 01/16/2014 7:48:20 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: mrsmith

Martian Monster Molar


55 posted on 01/16/2014 7:48:24 PM PST by mikrofon (Less filling...)
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To: mrsmith

Great, now there’s a face carved in the base rock.


56 posted on 01/16/2014 7:48:55 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: BenLurkin

It does appear to be in both shots, just different lighting.


57 posted on 01/16/2014 7:49:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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58 posted on 01/16/2014 7:50:29 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (martian_fierro)
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To: mrsmith
Looks like it’s in both photos to me.

Yup. The lighting and angle are a little different, and the second image is higher resolution, as presented.

59 posted on 01/16/2014 7:52:59 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Cold Heart

Ha! Now I see it. Just below that pointed part of the rock , to the lower left corner.
Kinda like in “The Scream” painting.


60 posted on 01/16/2014 7:54:14 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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