It’s been tooooooo long since we’ve seen a good one of these. They’ve become a dime a dozen … strange things seen in photos sent back from various Mars rovers. But this one! It’s from the rover Curiosity’s right mast camera … and it’s awesome! Hilarious even.
Click through the gallery to zoom in on it … to get the full effect:
Now, we’ve been having fun with these because they’re fun. And, they also speak to those people around the world who are using the tools they have at hand to find life on Mars and else where. Frankly, that’s what NASA scientists are doing, too … though obviously in a more scientifically robust fashion, but still.
Here are other strange things … on Mars!
The newest photo has been kicked around mostly on social media and seemingly mostly from a Facebook post by these folks, Journey to the Surface of the MARS. Take a quick spin through their page and you’ll see a lot of stuff. But even they were impressed by this one: “Now this one is AWESOME !!!.. . . . .. ‘CAVE GUARD’ ”
Huffington Post couldn’t help themselves so they called a scientist to tell them that the image is not of a cave monster on Mars:
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research, said he gets images showing formations such as this one about once a week.
“Those that send them to me are generally quite excited, as they claim that these frequently resemble SOMETHING you wouldn’t expect to find on the rusty, dusty surface of the Red Planet,” he said via email. “It’s usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts. Maybe they think there are cars on Mars.”
He said it’s really just a phenomenon called pareidolia, or the brain’s ability to make shapes out of random objects — like seeing animals in clouds.
Oh, fine.
Hey, speaking of strange and foreign and seemingly weird things ‘seen’ … we got to the bottom of this image a couple of years ago, but it’s also a good one.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
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It’s been tooooooo long since we’ve seen a good one of these. They’ve become a dime a dozen … strange things seen in photos sent back from various Mars rovers. But this one! It’s from the rover Curiosity’s right mast camera … and it’s awesome! Hilarious even.
Click through the gallery to zoom in on it … to get the full effect:
Now, we’ve been having fun with these because they’re fun. And, they also speak to those people around the world who are using the tools they have at hand to find life on Mars and else where. Frankly, that’s what NASA scientists are doing, too … though obviously in a more scientifically robust fashion, but still.
Here are other strange things … on Mars!
The newest photo has been kicked around mostly on social media and seemingly mostly from a Facebook post by these folks, Journey to the Surface of the MARS. Take a quick spin through their page and you’ll see a lot of stuff. But even they were impressed by this one: “Now this one is AWESOME !!!.. . . . .. ‘CAVE GUARD’ ”
Huffington Post couldn’t help themselves so they called a scientist to tell them that the image is not of a cave monster on Mars:
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research, said he gets images showing formations such as this one about once a week.
“Those that send them to me are generally quite excited, as they claim that these frequently resemble SOMETHING you wouldn’t expect to find on the rusty, dusty surface of the Red Planet,” he said via email. “It’s usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts. Maybe they think there are cars on Mars.”
He said it’s really just a phenomenon called pareidolia, or the brain’s ability to make shapes out of random objects — like seeing animals in clouds.
Oh, fine.
Hey, speaking of strange and foreign and seemingly weird things ‘seen’ … we got to the bottom of this image a couple of years ago, but it’s also a good one.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
If Google Plus is your thing, check out our science coverage here.
from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1M1GHic
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