Interesting Elements on SOL 618

Good afternoon from Germany,

recently there was a post on SOL 618. That made me curios and so I decided to download the MR- and ML - Images, published to this SOL, from the NASA PDS. The following image

- Origial Link to NASA - JpL - Raw image: -

mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0618MR0026010350401304E01_DXXX&s=618

contains some interesting elements . As always: Thinking about, what they could be, is speculation. But those elements have geometric structures, which look very anomalous for "just a rock"´s.

Below you can see the original raw image and the enhanced version, taken from the PDS, with marks and numbers to the following elements, I ´d like to accentuate.










What looks special to me:

Nr. 1: Looks like an altar or shrine. It has a clear straight line / shape on the right hand and some 3d-looking figures on the front side, which could be carved or worked out otherwise. If you increase the image, there´s furthermore a triangle to see.

Nr. 2: This element is coming up and has an own shadow. I´ve no idea, what to compare it with, But i also looks very strange for "just a rock". Maybe petrified wood?.

Nr. 3: ... comes also straight up. Looks like a little pillar or a fence post.

Nr. 4: Looks like a hand or maybe a feet, belonging to a statue. In my view I recognize something like three fingers or toes with fingernails/toenails.

Nr. 5: Could be part of a statue. I see a round structure on the top with little repeating mosaic elements.

So far, so good. I am looking forward for discussions. So what do you see?

Sincerly

Joe

There are quite a few oddities in this picture. Not an oddity, but it looks like all the things in the foreground are pretty close to the camera. Note the upper part of the picture is out of focus, which would not happen if the focus was set on infinity with a large depth of field.

To the right of your shrine is what appears to be a V-shaped channel, but taking a look at an enlargement of the original image it appears to be square bottomed and sided, and it's partially filled by sand. The V-shape is due to shadowing.

At the bottom of the "fence post" is another feature coming almost directly toward the camera. It's partially covered by sand.

And there's probably a lot more strange looking things. Pretty rough terrain at any rate.

Hello RD,
thanks for your comment.

In this reply I have enclosed the image with mark Nr. 6, the structure in the "shrine", that to me looks like a triangle.

Sincerly

Joe