Alien Anomalies

Timewarp

This is a very small segment from the top right corner of the same RAW image. I have also white balanced this one.. There is on this detail another object that is not being advertised by the MSL Curiosity team. (They did feature this whole image about the silicates it contains but didn't mention anything else.)

This detail can be found by enlarging the RAW image and looking for the 3 small bright pink spots on the original as they point to it.

I don't know  what it is without actually picking it up. To me it looks intelligently made. It doesn't look like a trick of the light, or stray pixels and it has no stripes although it is vertically parallel with the striped face of the stone below that I originally featured. The arrow is my addition because it's hard to spot.

My point is that I can only give my opinion about this object but the patterned rock is another matter. That stripy stone incorporates a common design element that we humans share and can reproduce. The pattern doesn't run horizontally or vertically across the image but it follows the angle of the rock itself. It also warns anyone walking towards it that there is a step. It attracts attention, performs a function in a language universal to hominids.

I think the stripes you have noticed are a product of digital image processing which I agree has nothing to do with the images I uploaded. The point I am making is that Curiosity does not discriminate when it comes to using the on board tools to work the surface of a selected target area. When an area of a rock is selected for some work to be carried out the minute object detail on the surface is not taken into account. There is a huge number of very small objects on the surface of this particular rock surface that are not being noticed and that's why I posted the close up views. If these very small objects were noticed by the Curiosity team it would appear that their scientific relevance is being disregarded. Sorry if the images I posted is drifting from your original observation.

The images shown below are from one of the MAHLI images for this sol.

I have managed to sharpen the views and have increased the colour saturation by 25%. The brightness and contrast have also been adjusted.

To view the finer surface detail you will have to zoom in by 50 to 100%.

Take note of the infrastructure showing on the surface and the very small object detail.

 

Thank you too for replying. The Mars images are just a source of bewilderment to me. I honestly don't know if NASA want us to play hide and seek or if they are deliberately misleading us. I wonder quite often if they really are there at all. I must admit that I can't see how they can continue to say that Mars is a planet that's never been inhabited when they publish so many images that clearly show evidence of not only life but life that we can identify with and people who shared our habits, creative and technical abilities such as pottery, weaving, metalwork etc. I graduated in Archaeology and Prehistory and the finds on Earth are similar to many of the ones pictured on Mars. Fishing out details that I spot in the images from all the interference, colour-washing, noise, disjunction of image parts is ridiculous for the technical genius that is supposed to be present in a nuclear powered robot.

-- Edited by Sapa on Tuesday 21st of October 2014 11:56:46 PM

Xenon, gmantoo,

My point is that the rock is part of a decorated functional structure. This is apparent for several reasons and I would like to draw your attention to a few features of interest.. This isn't a comprehensive list. Yes it is rock/ stone, there's no doubt about that, so are many structures made by humans here on Earth.

 

1 Decoration of surface:

It is painted in a recognisable pattern.

The areas of applied colour are only to the surface of the piece of stone.

There is a good cross section at the top.

The paint covers small granules attached to the surface. The stone was still quite rough when it was painted.

There are places where the paint has weathered, the granules have worn away and the stone is visible underneath.

The colour is not the same colour of any surrounding rocks.

Only the weathered patches are natural colour.

I have never seen any naturally occurring rock like this either on the Earth or on the NASA images.

I have seen many patterns in rocks but never vertical, uniform lines of contrasting colour.

Although the colour is not evident in any surrounding material, the rough surface has small irregularities matching the pattern of the stripes.

      EQUALISED COLOUR

2 Structure:

It is intentionally set into the adjacent material:

That it isn't part of the surroundings is evident from the top edge where the dividing line is clearly visible.

It retains the adjacent material, so performs a function that is structural.

None of the adjacent material is striped in contrasting colours.

The top edge where horizontal meets vertical is a perfect 90 degrees, the stone was dressed before being set and painted.

The edge set into the adjacent material is uneven and irregular in comparison with the painted surface on the vertical exposed side.

  PLACEMENT

 

3 The glass:

The "silicate" laid across the ground on the upper step and partially covered by soil is of a different composition.

The composition of the two materials is reminiscent of structures that have been made by intelligent beings, e.g. windows above walls.

Sand fused into glass occurs at high temperature, there is no burning of the surrounding material.

There are cracks in the silicate spreading away from the oval clearance.

  CRACKS RUN ACROSS FROM OVAL CLEARANCE

There are scrapes and drill holes where Curiosity has investigated the silicate in the soil covered area surrounding the oval shape.

  SCRAPED AREA OF SILICATE 

The oval shape has a circular bulge in the oval area cleared of soil by Curiosity. Bulges like this are common in decorative glass windows with convex areas here on Earth; glasses naturally formed do not usually have smooth surfaces of this type and decorative forms (crystal shapes are formed when cooling but not regular circular bulges).

  CIRCULAR BULGED RELIEF IN OVAL CLEARANCE

 

-- Edited by Sapa on Tuesday 21st of October 2014 02:29:19 PM

I really hate it when - on another forum - people tell me that my anomalies are "just a rock' but truly this time, I do think this is just a rock. So, dismiss what I say as rubbish, I dont mind. I think that even I, would need more evidence that this is a rock painting or similar. Sorry to deflate your bubble.