Spidery black objects on Mars surface raise speculation [Was David Bowie right?]

yahoo ^ | October 4, 2012 | Eric Pfeiffer

[grundle]

I'm more curious about the object that is under the black things - what is that? Is it a shell from a living creature? Is is a structure built by intelligent beings? What is that thing?

Love the Bowie reference!

[Inyo-Mono]

Looks like the shell of a giant Martian lobster!

[Strategerist]

Dunes - windblown formations.

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing the black is some kind of mineral deposit and the big things are dunes. (photo taken from 200 miles up)

[ConservativeStatement]

I bet Major Tom’s a junkie.

[rawcatslyentist]

Why not Zoidberg?

[skeeter]

Never mind. Its just Weird & Gilly.

[Reily]

Didn’t you all watch B5

Those are Shadow attack vessels!

[momtothree]

... for your consideration.

[momtothree]

Aren’t those things like the worms in Dune (the creatures that make the spice?)

[Noumenon]

“Send men... to summon WORMS!”

[DonaldC]

“from geysers to sunbathing colonies of microorganisms. “

Sometimes I think nasa employs second graders.

[tet68]

Ugh, Martian sand Ticks, hate’em.
Just like earth ticks but 25 feet across.
yick.

[cripplecreek]

I saw something in the new photo from the mars over that will stir the conspiracy theorists. It looks a bit like a bird standing on a rock.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/694179main_pia16202-full_full.jpg

Center right in the middle distance about even with where the mountains start coming into view.

[GeronL]

That does look like a shell!!

[DonaldC]

I’d like to see a larger area view.

[3Fingas]

Those black spots are Paul “Muadeeb” and the Fremen catching a ride on spice worms. There, I solved the riddle.

[mass55th]

"Looks like the shell of a giant Martian lobster!

Lobster Man From Mars

[GeronL]

That is one heck of a rock formation

[Nowhere Man]

Reminds me of the old episode from 1950 on a radio show “Dimension X.” The story was called “The Martian Death March” written by Ernest Kinoy. It was about a man, in 2027 recalling his boyhood with his father on Mars back in 1997 where he witnessed an old man leading Martians on a march from their reservations to another place to live. The Martians were tall and skinny and were called “Spiders.” It sort of remind me of the civil rights marches that would occur later in that decade and onward into the 1960’s