Mind-Bender 'rock'?

Hello good Mars folks>>>

Look at this image, its 1.5MB, second blended image from the right. Look at the bottom right-hand corner 'rock'. What do you see?

site is here:http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~jcanvin/mer/index.html

yt
dx

It's a Krupps coffee percolator

umm... rocks? What are you looking at? Is it the small "ringed" rock in the absolute bottom corner? Or is it one of the large pieces of basalt more in the center?

[img width=180]http://www.greenmon.com/canco/canco.29.jpg[/img]

[s]Massachusetts[/s] -> Mars

Well...

Josh>>>

you spotted it at the bottom right. So did Wayne! LOL

Why these mystery shapes? I thought we had done away with these forms?

It just caught my eye that's all.

yt
dx

Technically it looks like lava that filled a small lava tube and the surrounding material has now been eroded away.

The knobby chunks of basalt in the background look very much like pictures of recent, surface, lava flows in Hawaii.

lava or dessicated mud?

It does look like a beer can. Fosters? Mad Mike's Mars Microbrew?

I hate to say it but its the only 'rock' that looks like its eroding like a metal container...NAH...I didn't say that.

yt
dx

DX,

As I recall, from my extensive collection of "rocks," this falls into the category of what I called "canisters." It appears to be the eroded center core of one, but that's just a guess. I just know that I have seen a LOT of them, generally.

There are a few other curious items adjacent. The pork chop shaped rock immediately to the upper left, which I have a few of, but this one appears cookie cutter embedded for some reason. I'm not sure what that means.

By the way, I still have my categorized collection, which I spent hundreds of hours on, if anyone cares to trade.

RW>>>

We all know how rocks are supposed to split in half or break apart when struck with a pick-axe or other heavy object that will do damage to it, but to actually see a 'canister', as you put it, decomposing and decaying in the corner of that pic is sort of out of place!

If you look closer at its surface, it is not like the rest of the rocks in the pic. I don't have a clue as to where this pano was taken or when, but with all the Earthly landings and capsule ejectings that spacecraft do before and after landing or crashing, there could be spent parts all over our precious Mars' surface. Those pieces could end up anywhere. Does anyone out there agree with this statement?

We could be looking at some of it from long ago! I'm thinking heavy metal 'Russian' or early American landers.

It would be of assistance if you could find within your great 'categorized collection' a few similar objects and post them, if you have the time of course. But I do recall over the years that some pieces like this have caused controversy amongst us over such things.

yt
dx

dx,

there is an interesting one also, a tube behind the rock, with open mouth - up the picture in the middle.
I have stereos of those rocks. If anyone is interested to look at, i will post them.

es

Please post them.

Done.

So,

Is there anything to say about those rocks?
They look to me like scattered petrified bones.

e s

Thanks for those pics ES, especially the bottom one of that 'canister. I was looking forward to RW's vast array of pics but he seems to not wish to post them. But I appreciate the time you took to 3D these in 13 above.

Ben, do you still think your comment in 6 above is any better or are you thinking anything different as you view ES's pics in 13?

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good folks of this Blog>>>

Its a damned shame that some of these special conditions we see are not really examined or photographed with greater care. I really feel that NASA should do all of us just 1 small stinking favor before the Rover lights go out. That's 1 lousy favor.

To see this kind of 'rock-object', amongst many we all have spotted at onetime or another, without any more close-up detail just adds bitter fuel to an already irritated and fiery group of Marsmen remaining here in the Blog. Its a piss-off to us!

One lousy close-up view would do us all a world of good, and perhaps the speculations we perceive can be put to rest or placed in proper order and perspective.

I guess that is the reason 'WHY' there are so few of us remaining in here. We [us] must be suckers for punishment to be tormented like this to keep hanging around.

One lousy close-up view would solve a lot of problems. I am genuinely tired of all the various writings we read and link to with good intentions mind you. BUT, Where's the 'BEEF' NASA? You are not feeding us right! I don't want to see any more MI's or HAZ CAMS, front or rear. I don't like 'fish-eye' lens..never did! Who in here looks like a f.....g fish anyway? I'll stop here.

yt
dx

The top pic has very pussling feature too, in the right upper area:

something thin and bent over the rock, like a cactus leaf.

e s

Calm down guys, remember they are operating at that higher level of academia and don't have time for mundane observations !!!!

DX; I have continued to look at the images and stand by my earlier interpretation ,
in part due to rock in the back that looks like ropey lava flows.

Ben>>>

LOL, I rant often, as you are aware and thanks for the return. You're right Ben THEY are running out of time aren't they!

But I do like es's 3D pics he placed here. Perhaps that's all that can be said.

yt
dx

Here is an another tricky one, a black headed stony goose with white beek:

e s