Wood found on Mars? Not Photoshoped - off the nasa website.

Nasa.gov ^

[Next_Time_NJ]

now im not a betting man, but i know landrovers and there space caps are not made of wood. This clearly looks like a wooden plank to me. Unless someone hacked Nasa.gov's website and put up a photoshop'ed photo, this looks kinda odd.

[Commander8]

Yeah, that does look odd.

[Strategerist]

It's a layered piece of likely sedimentary rock (awfully interesting in and of itself) that's been tilted vertically. But not wood.

[exnavychick]

It looks pretty odd to me, too. It looks like a big piece of wood alright. I wonder what the heck it is. Didn't they post any kind of description of the photo?

[no_mm]

w o w

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

That wood is from Bush's timber company.

[Next_Time_NJ]

Rock like that out of nowhere .. in the middle of nothing common up on mars?

[spokeshave]

Could be fossilized wood

[One Dight]

Nope, just a plank-like looking space rock.

[ClearCase_guy]

Tsunamis can carry debris a loooong way.

[11th_VA]

Noah's Ark ???

[The Wizard]

bttt

[cabojoe]

Richard Hoagland will be all over that. Looks like the edge of a layered rock to me.

[appeal2]

Looks to me like a decaying railroad tie from the defunct Trans-Martian Railway.

[csvset]

Shiver me timbers.

[Next_Time_NJ]

LOL

[sam_paine]

I see a few more of them up and off to the right near the lip of the crater.

And I see C3PO by the escape pod directly above the wood off in the distance.

[freebilly]

Monolith....

[Uncledave]

It's a Cadbury flake bar.

[digger48]

so that's where Algore has been since the election

[Godebert]

Looks like a piece of 2x6 driftwood from an old dock. What does NASA have to say about it?

[First_Salute]

Not only that piece of ancient ex-petrified wood, but it's sitting in a lake bottom.

[golfnut]

Looks like my flagstone patio! Look at the flat rocks neatly fit together with cement between them!

[jackbill]

Oak, walnut or white pine?

[paulat]

Didn't we evolve from "plank"-ton?

[TLI]

There ought to be many other pics. Look at the tracks, it drove right over it.

[Strategerist]

NASA basically tosses the pics up raw on their site as they come in...by the thousands.

[Next_Time_NJ]

What is odd to me is the split in the middle tword the left edge. Just like if you nail a piece of wood with a spike and it splits.

[U S Army EOD]

You scoundral, you beat me to it.

[keithtoo]

Mars, god of War - got wood?

[Felis_irritable]

Probably something from the lander that was held on with an o-ring that got too cold and let go just before landing.

[Theresawithanh]

LOL! Need some wood? It sure does look like wood, though.

I was visiting the DUmmy site, just for spits and giggles, and one poster had quite a lengthy post about JK and President Bush in the debates, stating that JK had exposed President Bush as a liar about his lumber company twice, intimating, I guess, that JK had sure gotten one over on the President, thereby winning the debate. I loved President Bush's response!

[Uncledave]

Backwoods cigar?

[BROKKANIC]

None. In my professional opinion, I'd have to say that it's probably Kiawe.

[dead]

That's the 2x4 the martians smacked Shiela Jackson Lee in the head with to make her so stupid.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Natalie?

[FairOpinion]

That's what it looks like to me too.

But it does look totally out of place with the rest of the scenery.

It would be nice to see it further enlarged.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Noahs Ark was actually an interplanetary space ship. It briefly touched down on several planets before depositing the seeds to human life, originating on the garden planet of heaven... on a really nice place Noah was called to terraform... a planet we know as earth.

they left a few sticks of wood on Mars... leftovers from a barbeque....

heh heh...

[11th_VA]

I'm more curious about what's floating in the water behind it ;)

[Husker8877]

DAMN! I wanted to get in the first obligatory Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-MARS) reference!

[no_mm]

...floating way in the back of that picture there? hmmmm
John Kerry on his windsurfing kick...lol

[kayak]

ROFL!

[exnavychick]

Hmmm. Okay. Thanks for the info. :)

[jrfaug06]

Tracks of rover show that it ran over it. Perhaps petrified or prehaps just floated across the sea. The ground looks saturated with water. May bubble up large scale during high tidal periods with Mar's two moons. John

[BIGLOOK]

Looks like a column of lava from an eroded volcanic tube to me.

[Howlin]

Leave it to you...

[Savage Beast]

Looks like a wooden plank to me. But then, I thought the face on Mars looked like a face.

[Robert_Paulson2]

the item in the distance glowing... is supposedly the heat shield... perhaps this is part of the structure that supported the heat shield???

[Godebert]

"Oak, walnut or white pine?"

Definetly SPF (Spruce/Pine/Fir.)

[Andrew LB]

"mars has wood..." [/butthead]