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6 years 4 months ago - 6 years 4 months ago #13065 by Badsneaker

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Interesting feature. I have never seen rocks hang off each other before.

You can retrieve the original from here:
www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/image/00748/0748MR0032230040403587E01_DXXX.html

It almost looks like a sculpture of a face, but I'm not going there...

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6 years 4 months ago - 6 years 4 months ago #13066 by ??

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Hmmm....

If it is a piece of machinery, perhaps it is two pieces held together by a short axle and they are very corroded.

A rock? Possibly, but I am leaning toward manufactured on this one. This is definitely an anomaly. Thank you for posting it!

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6 years 4 months ago - 6 years 4 months ago #13067 by Badsneaker

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I almost see something like this:

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6 years 4 months ago #13068 by RocketDawg

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It's certainly unusual. At first I thought the lower right hand edge of the "suspended" rock might be anchored in the sand behind and that it just appeard to be floating, but the more I look at it the more it looks like it really is just hanging off the base rock. That one's hard to explain ... they must really be just one rock that's eroded strangely (not unusual on Mars with all the layered rock around) but it's odd at the very least.

Look at the 3 dark spots near the center just above the red arrow. The one in the center seems to have something (a rock?) floating in the air, casting a dark shadow, but the dark spots must be actual objects rather than shadows.

Looks like the sun is from the upper right, maybe around the 1:00 position. I can see the "face" that Badsneaker noted, but nah, it coudln't be.

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