"THE CLIMBER" in 3D Stereo
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“THE CLIMBER” in 3D Stereo
Curiosity Sol 751 MastCam
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Our master view shows an anomaly that was immediately pounced upon and presented by anomalists all over the world. Relatively close, relatively clear and easy-to-see, whatever this is spouted a firestorm of speculation. As usual, much of the speculation was fanciful, with the object admirably-fulfilling its role as a Rorschach test.
One of the predominant speculations was that this showed a machine climbing the cliff; a mining device almost certainly driven by tiny Martians intent on their unknown geological quest. However, when viewed in 3D, it becomes immediately-apparent that the object lies beyond the edge of the cliff and is not “climbing” the cliff at all.
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(Master Views)
Zooming in, we find something that is utterly beyond classification. If it’s the result of a geological process, how do natural forces create something so complex, symmetrical and uniformly bizarre? If it’s technology, what precisely is its function? One might conjecture that the complex array of pipes is hydraulic in function, with the fins along the top perhaps there for cooling purposes? It’s agonizing not being able to peer around the edge of the intervening cliff to see the rest of this strange anomaly!
And – as usual – NASA evinces absolutely ZERO curiosity (they named the rover “Curiosity” as a tongue-in-cheek joke, right?) in rolling closer for a more complete view. No, of course not. There’s a rock just over here, in the opposite direction, that absolutely demands twenty photographs to determine whether it’s igneous ejecta or a sedimentary rock subjected to alluvial processes. Makes you want to pull your hair out.
(Zoomed Views)
