Looks like some sort of shelter in the background.

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/r/1407/2R251273680EFFAX00P1314R0M1.JPG

It is a ski resort.

Looks like it don't it? With skiers on the slope also!!

Sure does, but it could be a winter cabin, and sheds. we will have to get a Ariel shot from the satilte to confirm this new discovery.

DwayneD.L.Rabon

That's not part of the landscape, it's part of the camera.

Uhh.. Gents,

It's the inside edge of the camera shroud on the rear hazard cam.

the semicircle depicts the reflection of the inside of the rover camera and other sensors...it is not part of the scenery

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4769/roverfn4.jpg

the red circles depict the same image, of an object inside the camera aperture view, from two sides.

It is a ski resort.

:bravo::roflmao:

Wouldn't the camera be on the rover and not near the horizon?

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8458/rover2ep1.jpg

The following depicts camera equipment CAD generated image of the Opportunity rover

The image in question is from the rear hazard camera, Not the boom-mounter binocular camera.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8098155/

The image in question is from the rear hazard camera, Not the boom-mounter binocular camera.

were is that one located on the rover? :bugeye:

here is the full image link of the Opportunity rover....show me

http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~db139/pictures/soil02.jpg

Correct this is not the PAN CAM. It is the rear hazard camera!

were is that one located on the rover? :bugeye:

here is the full image link of the Opportunity rover....show me

http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~db139/pictures/soil02.jpg
It's mounted under the rear solar array. You can't see it in this image.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8098155/

superlum's link clearly shows that its just part of the cover over the back mounted camera.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/sci_nat_spirit0s_mars_exploration/img/2.jpg

Is the RAT on the front or rear of the rover?

Got it

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39729000/gif/_39729389_mer2_info416.gif

http://www.ad-loznica.org.yu/slike/noge.jpg

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_surface_rover.html

And...also...this time animation shows that landscape is changing and the images reflected of inside hazcam are not...which proves that it is not indeed a ski resort

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collections/spirit_rearhazR_1250_1272.gif

Looks like the support structure inside brightens up and gets dimmer to me just like the two rocks to the side.

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/r/1403/2R250917667EFFAW__P1301R0M1.JPG

Actually there are hundreds of images of this!!

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/r/1215/2R234227372EFFATF3P1312R0M1.JPG

Took a optical photo with my camera on the computer screen. Seems you can see more deatail!

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s54/hurricanedude/200712080003.jpg

Why?

It is obvious you can see more internal structure with more zoom.

It is obvious you can see more internal structure with more zoom.
Oh. Ok. :shrug:

Oh. Ok. :shrug:

lolz

ROFLMFAO at this post......

make for a good reference for "the limits of empiricism" next time the subject gets approached
:D

So what's the joke here? The object on the horizon is obviously some kind of structure and it seems to have something like telegraph poles leading away from it in both directions. Did someone paint "Sol 1250" on an image from a test on Earth?

Never mind, I get it. The camera can see the inside of the lens housing because it's using a fisheye lens.

It's all an illusion I am sure of it. Trick photography for sure. It has to be part of the rover. Sometimes things don't appear to be what they really are!!