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 Mar 24 2004, 08:19 PM
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 Rock Bar!  Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 28-October 03 From: The 45th Parallel in Oregon Member No.: 16  |
I was surfing through the Mars uploaded pictures and I came across the newer Images that were taken from the satellitte currently orbiting Mars, I saw this and not even NASA or JPL has an explanation.
Wind would not make it round, Water would have eroded the crater and the sphere also..... I'm thinking it has to be a Crytalline Structure or Metallic Ore....Pyrite nuggets are hexadecimal & Octahedral shaped so what is this? Original Image found here:USGS Mars Anomaly
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Mar 24 2004, 09:53 PM
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 Master Mucker Group: Members Posts: 1,439 Joined: 22-February 04 Member No.: 98 |
Too many details that you left out. What is the angle of the pic? What is the approximate size of the target? What is the distance from the camera to the target?
Without those everything is speculation. Carl -------------------- Today's socio-political climate is rock solid proof that Adam and Eve weren't prospectors.
If they were they'd have eaten the snake instead of the apple and we'd still be in heaven.... |
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Mar 24 2004, 10:16 PM
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 Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 434 Joined: 29-November 03 From: Eastern Oregon Goldfields and SW Idaho, too Member No.: 25 |
Aw, Redpaw...that's TOOOOOOOOO easy!!!
That's Tiger Wood's second shot on the 13th at Forest Hills 2 weeks ago!!!  
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Mar 24 2004, 11:55 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 28-October 03 From: The 45th Parallel in Oregon Member No.: 16 |
A width of 38 pixels at 4.47m per pixel yields a diameter of 169.86 meters or 557.28 feet! The magnitude of scale becomes apparent for those of you who have visited the dome at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center which spans a mere 265 feet in diameter!
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Mar 25 2004, 10:37 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 434 Joined: 29-November 03 From: Eastern Oregon Goldfields and SW Idaho, too Member No.: 25 |
Gotta say, Redpaw, I enlarged it and it STILL looks like Tiger Woods' lost golfball... B)
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Mar 25 2004, 10:47 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 28-October 03 From: The 45th Parallel in Oregon Member No.: 16 |
baffled......
man I just want to know...... something that big strinking a planet would have created a much bigger crater than what it is sitting in.....did it strike elsewhere and roll off and into this divot? Titanium?..... If it was metallic I would think it would shine a little more like the heatshield did at the Bonneville Crater on mars from the initial pictures released from Spirit Rover....unless it was covered in a thin layer of dust. and those mostly uniform divots upon it surface aren't any help..... I figured Gold Tutor would have said..."No, Dave that's just a blah blah blah and your being fooled by the reflection and refraction of the light" -------------------- |
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Mar 25 2004, 10:51 PM
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 Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 7-December 03 From: Western Slope, Colorado Member No.: 45 |
Looks like a nose to me.
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Mar 26 2004, 07:43 AM
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Master Mucker Group: Members Posts: 1,439 Joined: 22-February 04 Member No.: 98 |
Redpaw, I am not joking when I say that this is quite possibly an artificially-constructed structure. Look at the size, look at the external design, look at the shape. The design, using tetrahedrons as this appeasrs to use, is renowned for excelling at stress management. The shape, the same thing- the circle is the most stable shape known.
I'm not joking Redpaw. Sounds far fetched? Perhaps. But how realis that pic? My theory is just as real as the pic you provided. Is it really an artificial structure? Guess we'll soon find out. Maybe it's not. Carl -------------------- Today's socio-political climate is rock solid proof that Adam and Eve weren't prospectors.
If they were they'd have eaten the snake instead of the apple and we'd still be in heaven.... |
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Mar 26 2004, 08:20 AM
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 Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 8-October 03 From: Singelton. Western Australia Member No.: 10 |
For what its worth by looking at the craters edge, it looks as if when this thing hit the surface may have been muddy.
The lower edge of this crater seems to have held up. As when this object hit it would have also generated heat therefore drying out the mud and retaing shape. But then again this is only my thoughts. TWA
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Mar 26 2004, 09:11 AM
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 Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Mesa Arizona Member No.: 81 |
 Your going to need a sand wedgr to get out of there......Tutor I'm with you. I've been in enough traps at enough golf courses to know what one looks like. :( -------------------- "Nobody get's in to see the Wizard, not nobody not no how."
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Mar 26 2004, 12:28 PM
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 Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Garry and Megan are on the right track. :D
But I think its something much bigger! :o Here is a link to some examples of what Dan and I think it is........... http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slide...ter_index.shtml What do you think? ;) :) -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥  |
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Mar 26 2004, 03:20 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Banned Posts: 61 Joined: 6-October 03 Member No.: 2 |
Howdy All,
Geeze this is a tough one.... perhaps Archangle Gabriel is practicing with new bismuth shot in his shotgun... more ecologically correct... but doesn't carry as well as the old standard iron metorites. Happy Trails, Johnny |
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Mar 26 2004, 03:29 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Mesa Arizona Member No.: 81 |
Denise, is that from when one of the Apollo guys used a 9 iron on the moon?
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Apr 26 2004, 08:26 PM
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 Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 2-December 03 From: Fair Oaks/Placerville California Member No.: 34 |
Certainly looks like an intelligent made structure with a windbreak around it and a cupola tyoe entrance????.
-------------------- Steve Wandt
http://www.naturalgoldjewelry.com |
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May 6 2004, 08:42 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 30-January 04 Member No.: 75 |
The Rocket Scientist Checks IN....
Looks like a view down from the bridge over the Tijuana River, after the wind blew my new sombrero off.... Ed |
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