Alien Anomalies

Moving right on ....

The Parthfinder preparation photo shows us that there is only one  place that the little surface explorer fits and that is under the US flag and JPL logo. The ramps fold out from this area allowing the machine to leave the mother ship. The ramps are obviously designed in a way that the airbags could not possibly affect their access to the ground or in any way impede the machine from reaching the ground. Look closely at the overhead images and it confirms this. The ramps are clear of airbags. The last image looking back at the ramp clearly shows this fact. It is logical to assume that a photo taken from the opposite side should show exactly the same thing, a ramp clearly defined and free of any obstructions.....but it does not.... the image show the ramp end suspended above the ground as though it has got stuck on something ?

Just to put minds at ease, the departure point of the little explorer has the US flag and JPL logo clearly above and behind it on a nice white background. Nice PR for all photos of the first landing  Moving left around the Pathfinder, the next side has machinery as in Icemans image, moving further around is a NASA logo next to some sort of box and then you're back at the JPL. The Pathfinder is not very big so its important to understand the angle you are looking at it from.

The two images that I posted with the JPL sign are therefore taken from the same angle only a short distance apart. At this angle we should be clearly seeing the other ramp....but where is it ..... its stuck in the air above big billowy airbags not in keeping with the design or even with the photo. 

Look at the photos carefully. They should be almost identical ....but they are not... 

Lets look at the image where we can see the explorer traverse map




...mmm...only a few angles where these images would be possible starting at Sol 39, so lets go to the official web-site at http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/roverview/table.html

You can have a look at all of the images here as the machine wanders around the area.

Now lets look at all the rocks that are named and the aerial image.

Aerial image....mmm....no billowy airbags at that angle .....

Now you can tell me what you see.....

PS for interests sake I include the picture of the simulation experiment of the pathfinder after the bags had deflated in the test on Earth



-- Edited by Chandre on Monday 9th of November 2009 02:33:09 PM