The eye balls are made by Spirit's Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) in this one.
"To some [NASA] science team members, the two brushed spots resemble the eyes of a face, with rocks below and between the eyes as a nose and layered rocks at the bottom of the image as a mouth."
This rock formation face was enhanced/created by NASA on Spirit sol 746:
This is clear evidence that NASA is considering this possibility - regardless of how absurd it may seem - and even engaging in making their own art at this level.
Ok i have got the pics, there is actually only 2, i looked again at sol 1836 and it's not really as similar as i thought, it's alot bigger and different. But the following two are both from Victoria crater, one from just near the entrance and the other from nearby. There is also a near perfect triangle object i post, although it is very small. Also just a couple more from the same area i thought were of interest.
Also below is this a possible cave in the walls of Victoria crater? With an artificial roof?
This area below is off to the side of Victoria crater, one of those trinagle rocks was nearby this area.
Below notice in the very center what appears to be black tubing with a white inside liner. Also odd shapes around this area.
This one below reminds me of some type of fossilised spinal area or cord.
Yeah it seems tp be looking at the camera directly. Kinda scary little thing.
I have noticed odd rocks around the opportunity rover nearby Vic crater, they are little triangular shaped rocks that always seem to be facing in the direction of the rover.
They dont stand out because they do look like pointy rocks but they always seem to face the rover and have an odd shadow that makes the rock appear slightly off the ground. I have seen it 3 times now and i will put the photos together and post shortly. One is at the entrance to Vic crater one is off to the side of Vic crater and one is nearby the Sol 1836 shot of what appears to be something moving between Sol days.
Has anyone noticed these odd little rock looking things? as i said i will post the pics shortly, just gotta upload etc
it is in this thread in the left hand side about halfway up/down and 1/6th of the way in from the left edge of this nasa picture. I circled it in the photobucket picture(Circled in green next to the blue circle) but I cannot access that from where I am at the moment. You can see him peering out of the 'cave'.
I have a better photograph of this somewhere. I think this is where they live and you can (fairly) often see them in their small 'caves' with their faces poking out. I will try and find this picture in the other (Windows) side of my computer and post it here later. Although... I thought that I posted it but I cannot find it now.
havick007, I think that's the thing that qbull was pointing out also. It is the same color and texture as the surrounding rock. It looks like a little gargoyle in a cave - ()lol- so if this is all sculpted as I am speculating, then, perhaps that is what is intended, but no doubt it is part of this rock.
marsrocks, thanks...thats a really interesting post. Some food for thought
Could I ask you to please post a copy of the colour version of the lion in the Balancing Stone Revisited as I have am working on a follow-on and that would really help...
As an after-thought...I just wanted to add this image
Imagine if the inhabitants of Mars wished to leave a legacy to someone they loved or just because they had the tech to do it...would they not maybe create faces like the very wealthy on Earth have created these islands that look like our world ?
-- Edited by Chandre on Saturday 17th of April 2010 07:01:19 PM
Just to push further on this.. Im posting some similar features on the moon. I know this is a mars thread but the subject warrants this.
a17.1203836_Pan. One of the hardest images to locate online due to lack of clear reference for web spiders. One can only come across this image by accident when scanning through Apollo 17 logs and images. Its ref number is also unorthodox so tracking it would be impossible.
The Green box highlight sh0ws 2 more faces in profile. these are more detailed from natural rock faults but still clear. The first face on the left ha a similar chin to the face we found on Io. Check here for details. the tentacled chin has a close resemblance.
This is an enlightening find. we cant say weather they're worshiped figures or accurate portrayals of the lunar aliens. What is certain. Something created these humanoid images. What we need to know is why?
The Nefertiti has nested images within it, and it similarly is a nested image interposed on top of a larger female face - as if it is a masquerade mask:
"Polymorphic images" is a good term for this. We see images nested within images - and the whole picture changes with the point of view. This seems to be evidence of complex alteration to create the image. Others disagree, of course. 'The human mind interprets patterns for itself out of randomness...'
I have spent a lot of time studying the crown face images, but never noticed that face on the lower left. Thanks for showing me that.
Nice job MarsRocks... You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned many smaller images making up one image.. H used the phrase "Polymorphic Images".
Whats been an endless topic of debate (for me) is why use earth like images to communicate or decorate etc.
The dark area (bottom left cheek) is total tampering i.e Blacked out. But there is structure to it. Also structure , though more elaborate with obscurred structures brought forward.
I think the obscurification process may also be designed to remove the more alien aspects of the faces (sometimes). This is so highly complex because your dealing with anomalies left to leave a , MAYBE, less threatening persona..o or less alien..
Here is a link to the one I just put up - sol 620-622. It is from the Everest panorama and is located in the area in the lower right - a dark rocky formation on the edge of a hillside.
Harry posted a lion formation as viewed from the Spirit rover in the balancing rocks thead.
I wanted to start a new thread on just this topic because I think there are many more of these formations to consider as possible art that was intended to be viewed from overhead.
Here is my quick coloration of the lion head taken from Harry's find. The color is only to demonstrate the basic parameters of the lion. The balancing rock is viewed as a tongue hanging out of the lion's mouth.
This is an example of one I found. The large image is like that of the head of a pharaoh.
This is from a panoramic image - Spirit - taken from sol 620 through sol 622:
Same image, higher contrast:
This form is far more complex than a single image. There are also many internal images.
I haven't outlined them all. They appear from multiple angles.
One example of what appears to be internal art is outlined below: