I increased size in my browser to see better. I think these are floating, it seems like flotsam on water? That is how I saw this objectively. The shadows below other pale "things" in the surroundings also seem to be dislocated from what is casting them. Water does this and also the shadow is rippled.
I'll have a closer look and get back to you. A thing I do is look for what is in focus. I've found that a few times the object in focus is in the air but often you don't see the shadow. It's usually closer than the background. Also look for the irregularities of the ground and surrounding objects, they can make it appear to be in the air when it isn't. That's why I liked the little one I posted earlier, that was in 2 different images at slightly different positions
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with the light around shadow thing from previous,it's perspective. Depends on the distances between onlooker and things in view. I hope there's another shot of the later post, it's lovely
Sorry for duplicate post, I was lagging
-- Edited by Sapa on Sunday 13th of March 2016 04:50:46 PM
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One thought that comes back to me quite often is - what if there is water and the objects are in suspension? If the water is still and clear it could give this effect and some of the other peculiar effects on quite a lot of images. Its just a thought.
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Hey Sapa, I thought that was weird too, they are at different times and different perspectives. The left cam picked it up in two different shots,
just not as good of quality for some reason. From all the angles you can see all of the shadow with a thin strip of light between the shadow and the rock.
If it were sticking out of the ground shouldn't we see that shadow as well? Look at all of the other shadows, the sun is at a pretty good angle.
I'm going to check the rear haz cam next, maybe there will be a UFO again.
There may be a problem there because both are the Right Mastcam, so it depends if they were taken very far apart in time. If they were several minutes apart is there a difference in perspective? If not could it be suspended? If not it has to be something it rests on.
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i have seen these and some of them are a camera glitch and don't appear on the other camera taking simultaneous photos. However, some are always together with weird objects on the ground and don't look the same as the "glitches". Check the time of the mastcam and the other mastcam's photos and look for other objects that can be associated. Check other photo's taken by the same mastcam during the same day, and the position of the object on the image. My first reaction was exactly the same as yours.
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The speck that is showing in all the images captured by the right mastcam is due to an aberration on the surface of the CCD inside the camera. I think it occurred during the landing of the rover when dust and other debris was being disturbed. The image artefact is not showing on any of the captures by the left-hand camera. In any image analysis of the right-hand mastcam images this small blemish should be disregarded. Hope this helps.
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So i was looking through images of SOL 855 and when i got down to the bottom of the larger thumbnails, I noticed something worth pointing out for observation. I noticed 4 or 5 pictures, taken from different angles all containing what appears to be an object floating in the sky. I highlighted the anomaly by placing an ellipse around it in 3 DIFFERENT images. I encourage members and visitors to visit SOL 855 and draw your own conclusions on this. I have not altered the images in any way.
So i was looking through images of SOL 855 and when i got down to the bottom of the larger thumbnails, I noticed something worth pointing out for observation. I noticed 4 or 5 pictures, taken from different angles all containing what appears to be an object floating in the sky. I highlighted the anomaly by placing an ellipse around it in 3 DIFFERENT images. I encourage members and visitors to visit SOL 855 and draw your own conclusions on this. I have not altered the images in any way.
Without knowing what the shutter speed or apereture setting of these cameras are there is the possibility of blurring moving objects. This one is not blurred. Detail within the shadow can occur whatever makes the shadow. Camera angle would change both shadows. I am not discounting your theory or hard work. It is possible. I just dont belive this instance. There are many here who do not believe my theories and that is thier right. That said, you do excellent work and I look forward to more.
The object is on two images from both left and right cameras. You have posted two images but they are both of the same RAW image from only one of the cameras.
Please refer to my post previous.
There is detail within the shadow which you have mostly lost by blurring.
The detail within the shadow, campared between the two RAW images, shows that the shadow is cast upon two different places on the ground relative to the camera angle.
One one it is cast upon a part of ground that has it's own elevations and the shadow bends around this, on the other the shape of the shadow is slightly different.
The details (untouched from RAW) on my post show this.
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Ok, now for my weird and wonderful idea - two possibilities in this idea.
What if the Martians had evolved into beings with transparent bodies. This would account for the many 'etherial' or 'ghostly' white floaty stuff we see in many images.
What if the ghostly white floaty stuff was smoke (which we have caught on camera before) It would actually look as if it was a ghostly figure (but to debunk this, it would not be in the shape of a figure)
I have posted what I thought was a ghostly figure before and also smoke blowing in the wind. It would also account for whirlwinds moving across the landscape if they were transparent/smokey beings and since I dont see any evidence of wind-bourne dust or erosion, I think this makes perfect sense. (well, I would, wouldn't I?)
Floating craft is a very real possibility too since the Martians have probably been in existence for millions/billions of years and any civilisation would have evolved technology to do this. I am convinced that keep an eye on us from their "UFO' which we have seen in a number of the rover pics and also on the Moon too.
Why dont they just run us off the planet? I cannot understand why they dont, since they are suppoed to be like war-like Klingons. We are going to want to come and colonise Mars at some stage in the future if we have not already.