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Post by SecretAgentMan on Feb 19, 2004 17:50:10 GMT -5
It hardly seemed a surprise that the panoramic photograph of Gusev Crater, the landing site of NASA's Mars rover Spirit, showed a red landscape. After all, Mars is called the red planet because it looks red, a hue imparted by rust in the planet's ubiquitous dust.
But did NASA fiddle with the image to make it look that red? As Mars buffs have pointed out in recent weeks on Web sites like Slashdot.org, a closer look reveals that parts of the rover itself, in the foreground, are oddly garish. Even the color chips placed on the rover to calibrate the color photographs had shifted. What should be bright blue is instead bright pink; what should be bright green is brown.
A few days later, after the rover Spirit made its first roll onto the surface, it took a picture of the empty lander behind it. Again, the Mars buffs zoomed in on a detail. NASA's navy blue logo, often called the "meatball" because of its shape, was now the pinkish hue of rare hamburger. Perhaps more shocking, the spacecraft designers at NASA appeared to have a thing for hot pink: that was the color of the cables strewn around the top of the lander!!!
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Post by NASA IS A FRAUD on Feb 28, 2004 3:39:42 GMT -5
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Mars Conspiracies Alert
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Post by Mars Conspiracies Alert on Mar 9, 2004 16:37:19 GMT -5
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Post by hahahaha on Mar 18, 2004 15:36:53 GMT -5
ya'll a bunch of wackos with nothin better to do and so are the ppl who own those sites
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Post by Alias on Apr 2, 2004 1:02:23 GMT -5
your a moron and need to be banned!
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Post by Commander X on Aug 8, 2004 21:48:42 GMT -5
When it comes to the Face on Mars, people tend to believe one of two things. That the "Face" is:
A. A striking pattern of light and shadow cast by hills in the area.
B. A sculpture carved by sentient (intelligent) Martians.
According to author Robert C. Kiviat , "NASA's planetary scientists have maintained over the years that the face is a natural rock formation produced by wind erosion and that the particular lighting angle at which it was photographed created its resemblance to a human face."
A key member in the opposing camp is lead by Richard Hoagland, a former member of the JPL press corps, and the author of "The Monuments of Mars." Hoagland has led a long investigation into the Vking data. He and his team have analyzed different photographic frames, taken at different angles, weeks apart. He claims that he and his researchers have considerable evidence that the "face", as well as some nearby pyramid-shaped objects and other "artifacts," are the work of sentient creatures.
Hoagland first became involved with the Martian face in 1981. He attended a science conference where Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molennar made a presentation. As Hoagland puts it, "These two computer-imaging experts had obtained data tapes of the face and had enhanced it. Their photographs showed some remarkable, stunning detail that was not at all evident on the raw image."
Hoagland came to agree with Molennar and DiPietro's contention that the faceappeared bilaterally symmetrical. According to Hoagland, he saw that the face "...had features which were humanoid, and it seemed above chance that it also had the right proportion." It was at this point that Hoagland began to consider that the face might have been constructed by intelligent beings. By 1983, Hoagland came to be convinced of the face's intelligent origin, leading to his fifteen year quest to "prove" the face on Mars is proof of intelligent life on Mars, as well as to try to get NASA to a send a photographic mission to Mars with the primary purpose to get new, better shots of the Martian face.
Some people in the science community disagree with the conclusions of Hoagland and his people. According to Michael Carr, the head of the original Viking orbiter imaging team, "Not one person of scientific credibility believes this." As to the existence of Martian pyramids, in close proximity to the face, Carr states that he is not aware of a "single Viking image that has pyramids on it."
While Carr DOES agree that some JPL staff members DID notice the Cydonia mesa's resemblance to a face when that photgraphic image was originally received, he claims that it was published by the lab "only for laughs."
THE TWO FACES OF NASA:
NASA has claimed for years that the "face" on Mars is not a face and doesn't offer proof of intelligent life on Mars. Recently however, following new Mars pictures taken of the Cydonia mesa, NASA claimed that these pictures, which apparently show no face, are "proof" finally that the Martian face never existed. If NASA never believed the mesa was a face, why would they make such a big deal of "proving" the non-existence of something they never believed in the first place. That's like a guy buying land that supposedly has no oil beneath it, then digging a dry hole to "prove" there's no oil. Why bother?
CONCLUSION:
We find it ironic that NASA, who tried really hard to get the world to believe ancient bacteria on a meteorite came from Mars (which is looking more unlikely by the minute), would put so much energy into the notion that intelligent life couldn't/didn't exist on Mars. We thought NASA's mission was to explore space, reporting back to U.S. citizens, WHO PAY FOR ALL THIS THROUGH THEIR TAXES, whatever they find. Wouldn't finding proof of some ancient, Martian civilization be the greatest NASA accomplishment since sending men to the moon. You would think so.
Based on the "proof" currently available, we believe it is difficiult to prove or disprove that the face on Mars is a genuine alien artifact. Until NASA sends a rover or manned team to the Cydonia region where the" face" is, the existence of an alien created face on Mars will remain a mystery.
We believe the American people are interested enough in the answer to this cosmic question to pay the bill. If intelligent, alien life once existed on Mars, the American people, as well as the world at large, deserves to know.
If NASA is ever to live up to the "Star Trek" credo, continuing to travel, "...where no man has gone before," a manned mission to the Cydonia desert region is a good place to start. NASA, make it so!
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Post by Grim Reaper on Nov 11, 2004 0:46:17 GMT -5
ya'll a bunch of wackos with nothin better to do and so are the ppl who own those sites open forum huh?
Just like morons such as yourself, all things end! As for the Mars landers and rovers sitting on Mars now...
I live in Indiana!
If I left a full size van in my back yard!
Came back 20 years later....
It would be covered with vines and rusted up to junk!
So why not on Mars!
If Mankind becomes extinct today....
Aliens coming here in a million years would say....
"Nope, nothings ever happened here!"
and they would move on unless they liked it here!
Our atmosphere could be poison to millions of Alien species!
Just in our Galaxy alone! ;D
Reference: Planet of the Apes
That movie showed how easy it can all be gone!
and how we've leave little behind that nature can't get rid of! Over time everything turns to dust!
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Post by hobo joe on May 29, 2005 16:51:04 GMT -5
I didn't know that the rover has been on mars for 20 years!? :-/Was i in a deep sleep or something? Anyway, since mars is said to have barely any atmosphere how could the colours on the rover and lander become so dis-coloured? Rust? I didn't know non metal and steel material can rust... Interesting.
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