'Traffic Light' On Mars Spotted In NASA Curiosity Rover Photo

[astr0144]

'Traffic Light' On Mars Spotted In NASA Curiosity Rover Photo..

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Conspiracy theorists have gotten the green light to chatter about another strange object on the Red Planet. This time it's not a Mars rat or a jelly doughnut that's been spotted in a photo taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, but a "traffic signal."

The extraterrestrial "signal" was spotted by a British UFO enthusiast named Joseph White. Curiosity snapped the photo at 1:08 a.m. EDT on sol 753 (Sept. 19). You can see the original here.




"I have been following the images from NASA since the start and I flick through them on the NASA website every day," White said, according to the Western Daily Press. "I saw this one and I thought 'Hang on, that looks a bit strange.'"

While White said he believes what he spotted is "clearly intelligently designed," as he wrote on his latest video on the Youtube Channel ArtAlienTV-Mars Zoo, the formation is most likely just a rock.

Earlier this week, blogger Paul Scott Anderson noticed a weird "ball" on Mars. But NASA scientists said this was just a spherical rock likely formed by concretion, a process by which minerals harden and get compacted, according to Discovery News.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/mars-traffic-light_n_5881322.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

[ArMaP]

I saw that some days ago in another forum, but, at least at the time, I couldn't find another photo showing that area, as the shadow makes me think that we are looking, once more, at a "perspective artefact", something that looks like it does only from this point of view.

I have to look for updates from that day to see if there are more photos now.

[Senduko]

@Armap : Even if its appaers to stand due to perspective, that doesn't explain the perfectly straight line.


Also, this one :

And there is also that natural perfectly-shaped ball on a flat rock surface.

According to NASA scientists, the spherical Mars rock is not as big as it looks – it's only about two-fifths of an inch wide, and is most likely a "concretion," a hard solid mass formed by matter accumulation, Discovery News reported.

http://rt.com/news/190624-mars-traffic-lights-rock-curiosity/
But, this one is odd because there are no similar balls in the vicinity. So it really looks out of place.

[Sinny]

Well groovey - how many geological occurences form perfect spheres?

[ArMaP]

@Armap : Even if its appaers to stand due to perspective, that doesn't explain the perfectly straight line.

It may explain it or not, it's hard to say with just one photo.

But, this one is odd because there are no similar balls in the vicinity. So it really looks out of place.

I said exactly that on that other forum.

[Senduko]

Ah lol, great minds? But I would like to know if both images are from the same region, I can't seem to find it anywhere in the articles. 
I doesn't look like something that fell out of space because I don't see any signs of impact.

Also, as Sinny asked, can nature form a perfect sphere like that?

[WarToad]

Also, as Sinny asked, can nature form a perfect sphere like that?

Nature can.   Spherulites form in igneous rocks, moqui marbles form in Navajo sandstone(which are prized by rock hounds of the southwest), and then there's spheroidal weathering patterns.  So, yes.  It can happen but it's certainly not common.

That is a very interesting photo though.  Too bad there aren't pics from different angles.

[ArMaP]

Ah lol, great minds? But I would like to know if both images are from the same region, I can't seem to find it anywhere in the articles.

The photo with the "traffic light" is from sol 753, the photo with the sphere is from sol 746.

According the images below (taken from this site) and some calculations, it looks like both sites are separated by some 50 metres.





Edited to add that there must be something wrong with that scale, as it doesn't look like both images show the same. I have to check.

[zorgon]

Well groovey - how many geological occurences form perfect spheres?

THOUSANDS



Judging by the rock where we find the spheres (or as NASA called them "Blueberries") it is easy to see the same SEDIMENTARY layers as we find on Earth. The round spheres are HEMATITE spheres commonly formed in those layers of rock

Like these on the exact same type of rock in Utah





Of course that Zorgon chap did many pages on those spheres as I recall

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/04images/Mars/SF2.jpg

[zorgon]

Hematite spheres on earth tend to be a dark blackish blue and will rust (Hematite is iron ore and bleeds red when cut)


But on Mars less oxygen and water so they stay blue... hence the NASA nick name "Blueberries"

[Pimander]

Also, as Sinny asked, can nature form a perfect sphere like that?

The sphere is common in nature.





Not least of which is the Living Moon.


SOURCE: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/FullMoon2010.jpg/631px-FullMoon2010.jpg

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Gold for you Pimander! Lol

[Sinny]

Still waiting for some one to name the penomena that caused the sphere...

[rdunk]

Hey astr0144, this is an interesting anomaly. Certainly not a "traffic light", but this thing does look a little strange. To me, the shadows do pretty much show the casting off of the segments of this piece, and they seem to be in the right place.

This thing does look odd just standing vertically here, but there is a pretty good chance that it s standing deeper into the sand, in order to remain vertical. One of the "more-odd" parts of this object is the very circular piece at the very top of it (yes, I see a not so distinct image of a face on it, and on the bottom piece too   ). The circular piece too seems to be a part of the shadow too.

While it doesn't change anything, here is a slightly more magnified same pic of the object.

[rdunk]

The sphere is common in nature.





Not least of which is the Living Moon.


SOURCE: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/FullMoon2010.jpg/631px-FullMoon2010.jpg

- I think the earth is spherical, but it is not a perfect sphere. Also, the word "nature" as we normally use it, probably does not actually apply to spacial objects, unless one considers rotational forces of spacial bodies, and gravitational forces between spacial bodies to be "acts of nature.