Is it Bigfoot? A Tusken Raider from the first “Star Wars” movie? Or just a rock? British newspapers went crazy Wednesday morning about an image from Mars that appears to show a humanoid figure descending a shallow hillside. The “alien” is actually a blurry detail in a huge panoramic photograph snapped on the edge of Mars’ Gusev crater by NASA’s Spirit rover in early November, and posted on NASA’s Web site on Jan. 2. Naturally, it took the Photoshop skills of dedicated bloggers to find the “humanoid.” “NASA scientists have been puzzled by the peculiarly life-like image,” declared the Times of London, despite the apparent fact that no one from NASA has had any comment. The skeptical Web site BadAstronomy.com, however, scoffed, “Puhlllleeeeze. A man? It’s a tiny rock only a few inches high. It’s only a few feet from the rover!”
Yes, its alien conspiracy day on DU. The original NASA photo is here. You can zoom in and spot the Martian! Hint: its in the group of rocks on the bottom left side.
After examining the images that I enhanced with PSP of the “Sasquatch on Mars,” I somewhat can identify a nose maybe? If this is just a rock, it would be a pretty impressive one with human like bodily details.
http://sasquatch-mars.blogspot.com/
Computerized enhancement has provided a much better image proving that this is NOT a rock:
http://www.geocities.com/lugosi2k/4_jan_MarsProbeMarvin.jpg
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#21 Yeah Right…..
Why is it all these Earth shattering photos are only Earth shattering with the computer enhancement?
Case and point the face of Mars at Cydonia.
Fact is some people will believe & see what they want to believe & see. That’s why there is so much money to make exploiting that fact.
If its not Mars its Jesus…
Cheers
Geeze, five more beers and that shadow is gonna start looking cute. Damn, it already reminds me of the little mermaid.
Ya, so what we got here seems to be ‘Jeebus-on-a-potato-in-outer-space’…
I think it’s an undocumented worker who entered Mars illegally.
It is a pile of rocks.
Wow, I got linked from Dvorak! Well, second hand, but I’ll take it.
I’m so dissapointed that no one made a Where’s Waldo joke!
But really the guy who spotted this must be worlds for most Where’s Waldos expert!
MEEEZZZZ FORRASSSS MARZ
its only an ugly rock!
Its justa rock, and comparing it to the rover’s low gain antenna, not a very big one at that. Maybe 2 or three inches tall tops. Oh, and its probably an igneous rock given the coloration before all the photo-editing. Mars is littered with rocks like these.
As an aside there are a number of other problems with claiming it is something alive.
1. There is no motion to the image it appears in.
2. It only shows up in that one frame of the composite.
3. Due to these previous issues if we do assume it is alive it is probably a plant.
4. Making the assumption that it is alive, then given the probable size of the object, and finally making a final assumption that it is not a plant, we would be dealing with something like a mouse that moves slower than a three toed tree sloth.
5. You have to make a whole lot of extremely questionable assumptions based on your own belief that a rock isn’t a rock despite what highly qualified geologists and biologists say to believe this thing is a life form of any sort.
Bob, no way. The photo is really the little guy who NASA hired to do maintenance on the rover. How do you think that thing is still running? He’s up there fixing it and cleaning the solar panels. He got caught in view of the camera and had to do his best mannequin impression.
Obviously, the place is populated. In the full image, I found the clear evidence of a sculpted boulder that is in the shape of the sacred Martian Frog diety, another humanoid head poking up from behind a rock, and a fat, almost michelinesque figure who is clearly wearing a happy face visage.
Closer inspection may reveal more. Much more.
It is just a small martian taking a crap leave him alone… hahaha
# 32, Anonymous,
its only an ugly rock!
Not after a few beers !!! It’s a cute rock. With a lovely tush and beckoning smile, …
alright, we can officially declare Mars belongs to us Earthlings now. Little Martians can not defeat giants like us!!!! I think
greetings earthlings i find it funny that u people r goin crazy over a picture of me am i like a rockstar or something
It looks to me like the rock is well endowed just below that arm… It’s definitely not Mr. Bigfoot.