curiosity rover discovers "thigh bone" on mars

[The Seeker]

This is interesting... appears the rover has taken a picture of what appears to be a thigh bone...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/thigh-bone-mars-curiosity-rover_n_5697912.html

"NASA's Curiosity rover has spotted a "thigh bone" on Mars -- or at least that's what some paranormal types would have you believe.

The folks at UFO Blogger wrote this week that the rover's MastCam had captured a photograph of a "fossilized thigh bone" on the red planet on August 14




The object certainly resembles a fossilized femur, but the odds that it's anything other than a weird-looking rock are, well, astronomical.

Over the years, people eyeing pictures from Mars have claimed to have seen everything from an iguana to a finger to weird faces.

But NASA hasn't been too impressed.

"On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance," NASA wrote on its website last year after a strange, "shiny" object was spotted on the Martian surface.

NASA said at the time that while the "shiny-looking rock" resembled a car door handle or another metallic object, its actual identity was probably a bit more prosaic. As Ron Sletten, a scientist on the Curiosity team, indicated on the agency's site, "the object is an interesting study in how wind and the natural elements cause erosion and other effects on various types of rocks."

ok, I guess when boots hit the ground on Mars something like this can be verified... or completely hushed up...


seeker

[COSMO]

Definitely some interesting objects in that pic.  It almost looks like a manufactured tile like flooring and the object to the right looks like part of a pelvis or spine???

the thigh bone's connected to the hip bone...  lol

What are those lines/drag marks in the dirt?  What made those? 

I do find credence in the ancient solar system wide war scenario. 

Dr. Brandenburg says that the surface of Mars shows the left overs of a nuclear war and Hoagland supports the idea of an ancient interplanetary war and it's described in the ancient Vedic texts.

Cosmo

[rdunk]

Good post seeker! This certainly has the look of a bone. Probably wouldn't be a question on it if the pic were taken in a ground dig somewhere on earth, but on Mars............................?? Certainly the skeptics just cannot  bring themselves to "see" the reality of so many things like this on Mars, because they are on Mars.

This piece has specific shape, with the ends being representative of the ends that common connecting bones often have. With all of the special instruments that Curiosity has, why not just go back and run tests on it to determine its make up?? HUH?

[The Seeker]

more pics of the area... edit to add: this pic is not from the set with the thigh bone...seeker



a closer look...



a wider shot of the area...



one more with marked anomalies....





seeker

[ArMaP]

What are those lines/drag marks in the dirt?  What made those? 

I suppose you are talking about the wheel marks left by the rover, they easy to see on the panorama below, made with 13 photos.

(click for full size, 13 MB image)


Some people think that the "bone" is one of those small white ridges we see on that area, only it was disturbed by the rover's wheels.

[The Seeker]

armap, what i am seeing does not look like tread marks from the rover...several items in the wide shot look manufactured...

seeker

[Shasta56]

The "thigh bone" looks very similar to the femur that I saw in my cadaver lab in anatomy and physiology. 

Is it really a femur?  Don't know.  Would NASA admit it if it was?  Probably not.

Shasta

[ArMaP]

This certainly has the look of a bone.

It does, that's what I said when I first saw it six days ago.

This piece has specific shape, with the ends being representative of the ends that common connecting bones often have.

No, it has almost the specific shape, as it lacks the areas that allow a bone to rotate in it's socket.

With all of the special instruments that Curiosity has, why not just go back and run tests on it to determine its make up?? HUH?

How do you know if they didn't run some tests? They made several tests on that area, as those areas with the sequences of small round markings show (those are the marks of the laser they use to analyse the rocks).

[ArMaP]

more pics of the area...

That doesn't look like the same area, where did you find that photo?

[The Seeker]

The "thigh bone" looks very similar to the femur that I saw in my cadaver lab in anatomy and physiology.

Yep.

Is it really a femur?  Don't know.  Would NASA admit it if it was?  Probably not.

Shasta

Nope, they wouldn't, Shasta; you can bet your fur on that...

seeker

[ArMaP]

armap, what i am seeing does not look like tread marks from the rover...several items in the wide shot look manufactured...

What things? The ones marked in red and blue or something else?

[The Seeker]

That doesn't look like the same area, where did you find that photo?

It was in with all the images they had compiled on the pic site, Armap...

got them from here...

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVyo57vhTdGgAe5VXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByYWptaDQyBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA0RGRDZfMQ--?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-250-s&va=thigh+bone+on+mars


seeker

[The Seeker]

What things? The ones marked in red and blue or something else?

Look in this photo to the right of the leg bone... is a metal plate with what appears to be a draglink...

[ArMaP]

Look in this photo to the right of the leg bone... is a metal plate with what appears to be a draglink...

I don't know what a "draglink" is, so I don't know what you mean.

But I know that I don't see any thing that looks like metal.

[ArMaP]

I was right about that photo, it's not from this area, it was taken by Spirit, not by Curiosity.

Spirit Mars Rover in 'McMurdo' Panorama.