That Blue Thing On Mars

[Eighthman]

Some guy wants to know what the blue thing on Mars is:

http://www.disclose.tv/news/what_is_that_blue_thing_on_mars_robert_wimer_asks_for_help/132385

[Dyna]

Phoenix Mars Lander?


Whatever this is?


This?
http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2015/08/nasa-probe-mro-spots-ufo-crash-site-on.html

[rdunk]

This anomaly has been discussed here quite some time ago. I will find a link and post it here, either with an edit or a next comment.

Well I cannot find our prior discussion on this - maybe ArMaP can find it!

[ArMaP]

Phoenix Mars Lander?

No, Phoenix landed close to the north pole, this is close to the south pole.

I think it's ice, but I don't have the time now to look for more information about it.

[Dyna]

http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2015/08/nasa-probe-mro-spots-ufo-crash-site-on.html

OP Image

[ArMaP]

http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2015/08/nasa-probe-mro-spots-ufo-crash-site-on.html

That's a recently created crater, closer to the equator (latitude: 18º N, longitude: 138.662° E) and I don't think it was made by a UFO. 

[ArMaP]

This anomaly has been discussed here quite some time ago. I will find a link and post it here, either with an edit or a next comment.

Well I cannot find our prior discussion on this - maybe ArMaP can find it!

I haven't found it yet, but I found that it's not this one.

Still looking.

[The Seeker]

Anyone lost a probe or mission to mars recently? Or had an orbiter de-orbit?


seeker

[ArMaP]

Anyone lost a probe or mission to mars recently? Or had an orbiter de-orbit?

A probe? Are you talking about the blue thing on the opening post or about the "fallen UFO"?

[rdunk]

This is the one to which I am referring to - that we have discussed here at length in the past. But thus far, I haven't found it.  - - a very obvious anomaly......to me!!

[The Seeker]

This is the one to which I am referring to - that we have discussed here at length in the past. But thus far, I haven't found it.  - - a very obvious anomaly......to me!!

We seem to have let this thread fall to the side

the object in the image looks like a craft of some sort that has crashed landed, and as many different things that have been sent to mars and lost, who is to say?



Seeker

[ArMaP]

As I said before, I think it's one of those patches of CO2 ice, as it appears bluish on the photos.

The areas around the poles look even stranger than the rest.

Here are more photos of the area.

CTX photo D13_032466_1096_XN_70S311W from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with a resolution of 5.02 metres per pixel.

Original image found here.

MOC photo E0701875 from Mars Global Surveyor. It shows only the crater with the anomaly, at a resolution of 2.9 metres per pixel.

Original image here

HRSC/SRC photo H4408_0000_ND3 from Mars Express, at 125 metres per pixel.

The full size, uncropped version is a 463 MB PNG image, converted from the original IMG file found here. If anyone wants it just ask.

HiRISE photo ESP_039231_1090, from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, at 0.25 metres per pixel.
First the greyscale image.


And the RGB image made with the "synthetic blue".


Both images take from here.

[The Seeker]

Excellent, Armap; the additional images do look like ice deposits, and if it is co2 the darker streaks leaching from it are probably methane sulfide 



Seeker