oops nasa rover !

[ArMaP]

ok here is a crop; now someone convince me that is a rock...

Convince me that it's metal or round.

The strangest part of that object is the "tube", the object itself is not much different from the other layered rocks.

I will try to find another photo from a different angle.

[08rubicon]

 armap;
    http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl       image you are looking for
  is 064mro285006000e1..will be found  on day 64 mast cam- scrole
  down almost to the end of 500 images to...can not find in search
       2012-10-10 16 50 50 utc
       2012-10-10 16 51 23 utc   good luck

[The Seeker]

Convince me that it's metal or round.

The strangest part of that object is the "tube", the object itself is not much different from the other layered rocks.

I will try to find another photo from a different angle.

that is our problem, brother; convincing anyone besides ourselves what it is; but it does not look like a rock...

just my 2 centavos...


seeker

[deuem]

Enjoy, Deuem

[robomont]

could it be a old school steel rim and that tube is a valve stem for air to go in.im gonna talk to old man and see.

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Mars Hubcap

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Deuem:
That looks like a Chevy axle to me

Armap;

OK so it's Mars.
But the rain?

ETA; i saw similar 'discs' in the shorty crater pictures (Apollo 17?)

EETA; ROCK IS ON THE CASE

[ArMaP]

armap;
    http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl       image you are looking for
  is 064mro285006000e1..will be found  on day 64 mast cam- scrole
  down almost to the end of 500 images to...can not find in search
       2012-10-10 16 50 50 utc
       2012-10-10 16 51 23 utc   good luck

Thanks, that one I already have, if I can find a second photo from a different angle I can make an anaglyph to give us a 3D perception of the scene, that's what I'm looking for.

[ArMaP]

but it does not look like a rock...

Why? What do you see that makes you think that's not a rock?

[ArMaP]

But the rain?

What rain? Where do you see signs of rain?

ROCK IS ON THE CASE

Or it's another case of a rock. 

[robomont]

sarge. that was cool.
can deuem or somebody black and white the photo?
can it be filtered with different colors to inhance it.
my old man friend said he knew of no rim like that.
if you zoom about half.it looks like at the bottom of tube is a base  that is riveted in place.diamond or octagon base?
isnt there some kind of enhancement software out their?
and i like the idea of a 3D pic. armap .that should be possible?

[ArMaP]

isnt there some kind of enhancement software out their?

Garbage in, garbage out. With a photo that doesn't have enough data is not possible to make an enhancement, we can only enhance something while losing something else.

and i like the idea of a 3D pic. armap .that should be possible?

With two photos from two different angles is possible. I usually only make 3D images, but with some math (and more data) it's possible to make a 3D model.

I haven't found other photos, by I'm still looking.

[zorgon]

I haven't found other photos, by I'm still looking.

So write NASA..

surely if they find a shiny metallic looking odd rock in the middle of nowhere on Mars they would have taken more than one photo

[ArMaP]

surely if they find a shiny metallic looking odd rock in the middle of nowhere on Mars they would have taken more than one photo

"Shiny metallic looking"? Are we talking about the same rock?

[zorgon]

Or it's another case of a rock. 

before you go around calling everything a ROCk you should take a course in ROCKS so you can qualify your comments when an object 'rock' looks totally out of place and context with the surrounding rock 

Like that gear on the moon... to call something 'just a rock' you need to be able to explain how that odd rock was formed or how it got there.

Don't forget that objects that were under water get incrusted with sediments so outwardly they have a rock like appearance...

We need to look closely at such odd out of place rocks. I have many samples on earth that are the same thing, actual artifacts encased in or coated with rock from sediments. The coated ones still retain the shape of the original artifact. If I was at NASA I would be drilling into THAT rock