NASA Mars rover image - why am I looking at a road?

Just because it looks like a road doesn't mean it is.

Some shill will be along to try convincing everyone that it's really a road though.

Oh wait - you're already here.

Isn't it strange how the foreground is has a certain crisp characteristic and then at a completely uniform point in the horizon before the mountains it is completely hazed and fogged out? As if it is two separate pictures tacked together?

Also, hasn't anybody noticed how bright it is on "Mars"? Mars is considerably further away from the sun than we are, yet it looks as if it's as bright there as it is here.

I'm not sure about this though, the sunrise on Mars photo seems to be fairly legit.

[link to blogs.sundaymercury.net]

Or good photoshopping.

Last Edited by ****D4RK*ST4R**** on 08/12/2012 09:25 AM

you don't see any red in that picture? are you color blind?

What are these?

IMAGE ( [link to i46.tinypic.com] )

Taken from here
[link to mars.jpl.nasa.gov]

Great a roadsonmarstard

can tell its a road by all the cars and trucks driving to and fro.

The Curiosity Rover cost a cool $2.6 Billion.

Of course they secretly sent a Bulldozer robot out ahead of time to make roads so the fragile little dear wouldn't hurt herself.

Mars..

the real rover is on mars looking for life, artifacts and ancient alien technology. meanwhile the fake in new mexico shows us pictures of rocks being drilled and tracks in the sand...
something like that.

I'll check the NASA site to see if there is an original of this. That will tell if it is "real" or amateur photoshop.

It turns out this isn't the direction Curiosity is going (the official target is in the other direction). Got to meet our science objectives, can't actually look for signs of life.

Nothing to see here... Move along.

Last Edited by Poriwoggu on 08/12/2012 10:01 AM

And here he is, folks!

hheheh yeah exactly what i thought..

Nice.

Why is the horizon "hazed" out? What are they hidiing?

:propsyo:

Just found my first bit of image tampering on this large sized imaged you posted.

Take a look at the strange shadowing on this rock.....

[link to www.intelligentbrokerage.co.uk]

Damn! Look at this
[link to mars.jpl.nasa.gov]

Road path (from the crater floor) comes up heading right, then zigs back to the left, then back to the right. That's the sidways 'V' you see pointing to the left.

If you look, at the top of this sidways 'V' and zoom in, you can see the road bed runs back to the left towards a black 'speck' then turns back up to the right heading all the way back across the pic before running off the side of the image about 2/3 of the way up the crater wall.

Am I an invisible ninja?

HAVE ANY OF YOU ACTUALLY READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LINK? Please do so, ya'll are killin me here.. Most of the stuff, most of you are talking about is explained in the article, as part of the mission. I'm not saying any of it is true. I'm just saying most of you need a real life hug, and to stop yourself from talking before reading/listening/thinking.

Remember those GORGEOUS high-quality color pictures that were taken when we landed on the moon?

You know, the ones that were taken from a chest mounted camera and which had better exposure, shutter and every other setting made perfect on a camera from 1968 which wasn't affected by radiation, moon dust or anything else and no matter where you shot it, the picture was neither under or over-exposed.

So with all of the Go-Pro 1080p high quality cameras people use now (and even send into space on homemade rockets and weather balloons) why couldn't they fit one on to the rover and send back a perfect picture? Hell, the Apple iPhone or any high end droid, has even tinier cameras that amazing as all get out. And even if the image was 3 or 5 or 25 mb in size, who cares how long it would take to transmit back to Earth. It wouldn't be degraded as digital systems rebroadcast bits to give a perfect final picture anyway.

The best they always seem to have are either surreal (like HDR), over processed (with Photoshop) or like old Kodak film for catching Bigfoot, UFO's or the Lochness Monster with (grainy, out of focus, whatever).

I call bullshit.

Reason why space subject is so contrived by PTB is not religion, but ultimatly stupidy and greed of predatory like beings who want all potent information, science and technology all for themselves...while being unselfishy gifted with life..... this kind of paradox is bigger then us and it is build in whole system of life at least on this planet.
As this phenomenon rules not only our space but whole overal life exploration.

We are ruleed by stupid predators and by that fact only this place would be hell for any sane centient being..No need to look further..

Sad world, sad times this long ages of stupidiy.

yep

That is a road allright. Leads to Alien village maybe?

In the upper left, is that a border agent perusing someone?

C'mon AC - you are ruining all their doom with your logic and common sense.

Your kind is not appreciated here.

Op is right. NASA pooched it. There is another flaw in the photo which pegs it as from earth, but I am not going to tell you what because I want an entire gallery of this shit before I open my mouth.

Nope, I am an experienced photographer with all the goodies. I know how to make stuff pop right out of photos. When dropping the sky to gray so an equalize function will really focus on the land and enhance what is there, and then running equalize, the road pops right out.

it's an EARTH SHOT.