Interesting Mars Photo

[Eighthman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_JvUpIflzk&feature=player_embedded

Maybe somekinda interplay of light and shadow.  I dunno.

[Pimander]

http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/image/01144/1144ML0051850400501527E01_DXXX.html

[Pimander]

It might be a compression artefact.

[Dyna]

Interesting, to bad FunBox is banned would love to hear what he has to say about it.

[Pimander]

Interesting, to bad FunBox is banned would love to hear what he has to say about it.

See if you can find a site where he isn't banned and post it there.  You might be searching for some time though.

[Dyna]

See if you can find a site where he isn't banned and post it there.  You might be searching for some time though.

Same with many others here. Banned for saying what we think. Guess we all need to learn to shut it.
Unless your someone like maybe matrix traveler or many others that actually shocked me with some of their behaviors can say what you please. Favorites every website.
Disappointed...Goodbye
Kindness counts 

[ArMaP]

This is what it looks like in the video.



This is what it looks like when zooming in on the original image.



Too much JPEG artefacts, it's hard to say what it may be.


Edited to add the less compressed version available on the Analyst's Notebook, resized to 500% like the previous image.

[Pimander]

Same with many others here. Banned for saying what we think. Guess we all need to learn to shut it.

You can say what you think.  Just don't be rude or abusive and allow a reasonable discussion to take place.  There is not freedom just to post anything, there are rules.  If you don't like them that is fine, it isn't your site.

[rdunk]

The high resolution image from the standard mars.jpl.nasa.gov site, with partial zooming, Sol 1144.

This is a weird looking obviously anomalous feature here on the side of Mars hill, either photo generated or............! 

Link to standard image: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=1144ML0051850400501527E01_DXXX&s=1144

[Pimander]

Don't forget, that is the jpg which has been compressed.

[ArMaP]

Don't forget, that is the jpg which has been compressed.

That's the problem with photos from Curiosity, even the original photos use JPEG compression, although not as high as the photos published on the MSL site.

That's the result of people wanting colour photos, they got them, but they are worse than the greyscale photos.

[Eighthman]

The interplay of shadow and light (if that's what it supposedly is) doesn't look right.  The lit area seems to be at the wrong angle compared to the surrounding shadows.

[rdunk]

Whatever it is it just doesn't look right to me - doesn't look like it belongs in the photo.

If this feature were added purposely........why?? Well of course, it is just a "lens flare"!!

[ArMaP]

I think I found another photo that shows that area, but it doesn't help much.

[The Seeker]

Just wanted to bump this and keep the discussion going... that is indeed an interesting photo; and I agree, it really does seem out of place yet it definitely resembles a humanoid type figure possibly in uniform... I need some type of program that will allow me to actually zoom in on these photos...

suggestions?

Seeker