Does anyone know NASA's position on the man on Mars photo?

[joepistole]

This was taken by one of the two Mars rovers...looks like a man. I would like to know if NASA has done any follow-up.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...,00.html?f=rss

[Spud Emperor]

Yeah, looks like Jesus..but with nice breasts.

[Vega]

Is there confirmation on that from NASA's website?

[cosmictraveler]

Why is it blurry? I only remember a clear picture being transmitted by the rover. I'd like to see the original picture this was taken from. Anyone know where the original picture might be located?

[Spud Emperor]

Is there confirmation on that from NASA's website?

Yep,..Houston, it appears Jesus is a woman, no holy blasphemer batman!..He's a man, with,,,manboobs.

[Vega]

Can't find it on NASA's JPL site!!

[Spud Emperor]

Apologies for being facetious serious dudes, but I've worked it out, it's Jesus with a Mars bone in hand self flagellating for the mysterious appearance of boobs on his otherwise godlike body.

Get a grip guys, it's a rock, do you have any idea how many people and face shaped rocks are to be found if you look?

[Vega]

Apologies for being facetious serious dudes, but I've worked it out, it's Jesus with a Mars bone in hand self flagellating for the mysterious appearance of boobs on his otherwise godlike body.

Get a grip guys, it's a rock, do you have any idea how many people and face shaped rocks are to be found if you look?

I don't care if it's Jesus or a f**king rock!!!, just wanna see the real mug shot!

[draqon]

NASA's position: stop littering the internet with conspiracy theories and what looks like shapes and forms in surface background of our images.

[Janus58]

Why is it blurry? I only remember a clear picture being transmitted by the rover. I'd like to see the original picture this was taken from. Anyone know where the original picture might be located?

It's blurry because this is only a very small section of the original photo and thus is getting close to the limits of resolution of the original image.

[spidergoat]

Obviously, this is a product of the human brain's capacity for pattern recognition. It happened before with that Mars "face", which, when higher resolution photos became available, turned out to look nothing like a face.

[Read-Only]

Obviously, this is a product of the human brain's capacity for pattern recognition. It happened before with that Mars "face", which, when higher resolution photos became available, turned out to look nothing like a face.

Correct - and when viewed with the sun in slightly different position so that the shadows changed considerably.

When I was kid, we used to have fun finding "faces" in the rough bark of trees.

[cosmictraveler]

It's blurry because this is only a very small section of the original photo and thus is getting close to the limits of resolution of the original image.

Where's the original image?

[blobrana]

Sol 1363 (Nov. 3, 2007): Spirit acquired pre-drive, panoramic camera images of targets known as "Posole," "Green Chile," and "Flan," then drove 24.83 metres to Site 5 on Home Plate. The rover acquired post-drive image mosaics with the navigation and panoramic cameras. The next morning, Spirit completed a survey of rock clasts with the panoramic camera and took a mosaic of images with the navigation camera.

Sol 1364: Spirit acquired images of the distant dune field known as "El Dorado" with the panoramic camera, and after communicating with the Odyssey orbiter during its overhead pass, measured atmospheric argon with the alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer. In the morning, Spirit completed a full-colour, systematic ground survey using all 13 filters of the panoramic camera.

[blobrana]

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[cosmictraveler]

IMAGE (nasa link)

All I see is rock formations, no people there that I can see.

[orcot]

that took me 3 minutes to find (it's somwhere in the bothem left). I'm amazed on how some must study those pictures rigoresly...
It looks real nice, altough it doesn't mean anything

[D H]

NASAWatch has cleared up the image.

[joepistole]

where are the bumpy bits?

[Orleander]

HOLY CRAP!!!! They found Bigfoot!