Alien Anomalies

No-one has explained how the Rovers keep their camera lenses clean.
Yes, I know the lens covers are made of something special, but it must be
pretty good to keep clean all the time. (didn't I read that they have the
same coating as you can buy to keep rain water drops from staying
on your windows?)
Any special coating would reduce surface tension on the outside of
the lense cover and cause the rain to form into small rivers down to the bottom
and not stick to the glass. We would see those small channels of
water in the following photos, wouldn't we?

Anyway, although there IS evidence of dust
occasionally, there is not much and with all the dust storms and dust-devils...

Sorry NASA, in spite of your video movie of a dust devil, I still
cannot see any other evidence in the environment of strong
winds leaving large piles of dust/sand against the lee-side of rocks.

Do not forget what we have already discovered on Mars and try to build the debate on the basis otherwise we will sound like idiots.

Software Pyrate, it is not much other data to build on, it was the weather reports from Mars temperature, amount of sun and also wind meter showing not wind power but wind action on the surface bud you did not knew how heavy this surface or big it was.

Software_Pyrate wrote:

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All we are really doing here is just guessing, looking at an image.

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It agree. Even the qualified experts have not enough chances of objectivity

Spoiler

Согласен. Даже у квалифицированных специалистов мало шансов на объективность

 

I am still leaning on the rain side....But all other possibilities must be ruled out before I can jump on the band wagon, and ( I hate being the devil's advocate )but...

1) the biggest argument that I see is still some kind of interference with the camera.

2) If it is in fact rain on the lens...then you would think it would start to dribble down the lens so to speak like your last image in the OP.

Sir Charles Shults covers rain on Mars in his CD-book:

http://xenotechresearch.com/bookpromo.htm

NASA claims those clouds are made of ice crystals and not liquid water droplets.  Shults refutes that.  Shults also shows areas on the ground where he believes rain has occurred and does an experiment to prove his theory.  He explains rain on Mars as being very different than on earth - thinner atmosphere - higher velocities - tinier droplets, etc - the rain comes very quickly down like a hard mist spray.  He explains also how it can be in a liquid form in such a cold place as we see at Gusev and Meridiani.

As far as the Phoenix clouds and sky, let's not forget the temperature is even colder there  - remember the frost formation on the equipment.  (Also, frost formed on the ground seasonally near the viking landers). I do believe there are some official sources admitting snow on Mars in the polar regions- which must also be accounted for as a possibility in that area for any possible precipitation in the sky.

I seem to remember that dust storms cause a general darkening of the skies. Certainly they do here when we get them each year at a certain time. It goes almost night time dark but does not seem to produce clouds like rain-clouds at all - more a general darkness. However, i'll admit, it could be different in different areas/worlds.

In all the images is horizon plainly drawn it tells us that this is most likely a rain on the shield in front of the camera lens

These images have all the character that the other films from the Earth has so I think there is no reason to doubt. I'm sure the camera's finish is under the most stringent requirements.

We know that there are sometimes very cloudy sky on Mars, a massive cloud, so it gives the eye the way that it is raining

Software_Pyrate wrote:

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But then again....skeptic side coming out....could just be some kind of interferance as the rover drives over a bumpy part of the path and the camera gets jolted so to speak..

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These are pictures of a phoenix

Iceman...This is an excellent find!!

I have done a couple google searches on this with the key words "rain on mars" and have only come up with hypothesis and speculations on the matter dating back to '06. But nothing solid such as these images....


While I agree this is totally rain, Has this been confirmed as such? Is there any documentation on the issue. This would be the find of the century if it is in fact rain.