Alien Anomalies

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

RE: rock tracks in the sand

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

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2P292281357EFFB100P2359L2M1
Rover	Spirit
Sol	1869
Site	B1
Camera	Pancam

This is version 1 of a photograph produced for M - MIPL (OPGS) at JPL on Mon, 6 Apr 2009 GMT at 09:14 which is Sol 1869.

It was taken with the Pancam instrument, through the Left camera, using filter number 2, 753nm (20) on the Mars Rover Spirit.

It is a Full frame EDR picture which is raw, is NOT liniarised, and is NOT thumbnail sized

This data was captured at site number B1(137) on drive number 00, and the command sequence number P2359 was instructed by PMA & Remote Sensing instr. (Pancam, Navcam, Hazcam, MI, Mini-TES) and belongs to the group 2000 through 2899 - Pancam sequences

=================== image 2 below ==============Official - 1N317812524EFFAB00P1994L0M1.JPG

1N317812524EFFAB00P1994L0M1
Rover	Opportunity
Sol	2136
Site	AB
Camera	Navcam

This is version 1 of a photograph produced for M - MIPL (OPGS) at JPL on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 GMT at 21:14 which is Sol 2136.

It was taken with the Navcam instrument, through the Left camera, using no filter on the Mars Rover Opportunity.

It is a Full frame EDR picture which is raw, is NOT liniarised, and is NOT thumbnail sized

This data was captured at site number AB(111) on drive number 00, and the command sequence number P1994 was instructed by PMA & Remote Sensing instr. (Pancam, Navcam, Hazcam, MI, Mini-TES) and belongs to the group 1500 through 1999 - Navcam sequences

I hope you can see these, but they are tracks in the sand in 2 different images. It has been suggested that it is either a small 'dust devil' or some underground rocks which allow the sand to fall into the cracks between them and make these tracks.

On another forum I did not get much luck with explanations but if you can find other images with tracks in them, we can build up a library of these kind of tracks which are not obviously rover tracks. On some examples, it looks as if the rocks themselves are making the tracks, but in another example on the left, there is no rock at the bottom to account for this.

All suggestions and speculations welcome.

If you get inspired and you want to search for more similar images you can go here and use the thumbnail search.