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A strange alien figure on Mars? Yeah, right, says NASA.
As reported Wednesday, bloggers and British newspapers have been abuzz this week over a blurry image taken by the Mars rover Spirit in November that seems to show a humanoid figure ambling down a shallow slope.
"It's a two-inch piece of rock eroded by the wind," explained NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown.
Various jokers had suggested that the figure might be Bigfoot, a naked woman, a Tusken Raider from "Star Wars" or Usama bin Laden.
One Danish group noted that the figure looked like the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbor, and postulated that ancient Martians had colonized Scandinavia.
for pictures, please check out the link below:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325346,00.html
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA10214.jpg It's hard to tell but I think that it is what NASA says it is. I don't believe in aliens living over there.
From the article you linked to:
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The Mars Rover took three days to make the huge panoramic image, slowly moving from one side to the other as it snapped images.
At each position, various filters were snapped into place over the camera lens, meaning that each static color shot actually takes several minutes to compose. |
I liked the explanation of the danish bloggers, The aliens colonized Scandinavia 
The rock formation is bizarre and inorganic. Perhaps if they had more photographs, or at least the surrounding vista's geometry, we could analyze and see if the wind patterns would correspond with such a seemingly unnatural formation.
I'm far more interested in what appears to be wind-rippled liquid water in the upper right of the photo. I'm sure it isn't really water, just dark sand, but it sure looks like water.
Check the blueish blur near the base of the hill at the upper right of the photo.
If you find the original image and manage to find the 'woman' then its fairly clear that the figure is only a few inches high. Also, images on Mars are taken very differently than images on your digital camera. The final image is a combination of various monochrome images taken through different filters and then combined afterwards to give the spectacular final result. And each of those individual images was timestamped. And guess what - the rover spent a long time (forget off the top of my head but I believe 50-150 seperate image make up the panoramic view) taking that picture and the 'figure' doesn't move in any of them.
Also, the camera is a stereo type camera with a left and a right lens and by combining the two a nice 3D image can be created. Not sure of the link now but the badastromony site has more detail and links.
David.
Well the obvious solution would be to take a picture of the object from a different angle. If the formation is not there then we have a moving rock on mars. If it is, which it should be, still there, then we would notice the features of the formation that prove it to be a rock like the NASA scientists say it is. I do admit though that the features from this angle look very organic.
No..that's not the best solution.
Imagine, for example, a real woman posing. Depending on the angle, you can take a picture which looks nothing like a woman. The best solution is to take a variety of shots which allow a 3-D reconstruction of the artifact.
maybe i think that picture fake, it's like made by a profesional
You know, sometimes I like to look for naked ladies in the clouds too.
| Bikerman wrote: |
| Imagine, for example, a real woman posing. |
Dude. We're on the internet. No one's gonna have a frame of reference to imagine that. | Indi wrote: |
| Bikerman wrote: | | Imagine, for example, a real woman posing. |
Dude. We're on the internet. No one's gonna have a frame of reference to imagine that. |
Ahh...killer point. 
| Indi wrote: |
| Bikerman wrote: | | Imagine, for example, a real woman posing. |
Dude. We're on the internet. No one's gonna have a frame of reference to imagine that. |
Hahaha, thanks Indi For me it seems the "woman" is way too close to the camera to be that small.
Plus, I really don't believe in all these kind of stuff. They are mostly invented by a bored news reporter that didnt have anything new to report on, so he decided to make a buzz about some old picture taken by NASA. You know the drill.
When men find it that difficult to Live on earth, it is funny that one finds women on Mars 
It might be some non-living object surrounded by some gas or dust or some matter.
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