Strange Mystery Spheres on Mars Baffle Scientists

Thanks for the pic and link

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Last Edited by Anonymous Cowherder on 09/15/2012 09:07 PM

yes, your write-up is sufficient, no PIC or
link needed...

Ahem, OP, attention to detail ..............

[link to news.discovery.com]

[link to www.space.com]

looks like fosile sheep plops to me

higher melting point crystals formed in a convective matrix of lower melting point rock, which then solidified. basically the same mechanism used to form "ball" smokeless powders from a colloid, though temperature driven rather than solvent.

You would say that Brynn.

I think it's a geese eggs.

Sorry for not posting pic. Been busy and just plain forgot, thanks to members following through for me.

Also thanks for a rare pin, I really appreciate it!!!

Someone should market a new candy right now called "Mars Balls." The mystery will melt right in your mouth.

Quick! go patent the idea!

I would think that Mars has been a humanoid sustaining type planet. That looks like the bottom of what used to be an ocean to me.

Your avatar is sad. Did the kitty ever get released?

Looks like cemented bauxite to me.

but of course they can't provide us any color images.

feels like the space program is still in the 1950's.

Why, this one is too easy.

This was covered way back in 1953....

See here at 1:31.



Mystery solved.

looks like salt domes

they should park the rover somewhere and make one of those time lapse videos by taking a picture each minute for a whole day. I want to see what a martian day looks like.

Monsanto beat you to it

I think it's martian herpes

Its like that chocolate with nuts in it. yummy!

Dude ikr wtf

Great Flick!

Sounds exactly how people describe the Reptilians/Illuminati now a days.

And "Photographed in Color", to boot!!!

Last Edited by ehecatl on 09/15/2012 11:01 PM

or, its prehaps rocks with sand blown around them. Otherwise known as a Ventifact.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Ventifacts can look really odd.

Maybe the Mars candy company?

Looks like Reese's Pieces left there by E.T.

(2004) [link to www.bing.com]

[link to www.astro.cornell.edu]
NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. They landed on Mars January 3 and January 24 PST, 2004 (January 4 and January 25 UTC, 2004).

The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Professor Stephen Squyres, the scientific Principal Investigator, and the Cornell MER Team have analyzed the extensive data returned from the rovers and have provided new research insight in the composition of Mars and the possibility of water on the red planet.

Primary among the mission's scientific goals is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. The spacecraft are targeted to sites on opposite sides of Mars that appear to have been affected by liquid water in the past. The landing sites are at Gusev Crater, a possible former lake in a giant impact crater, and Meridiani Planum, where mineral deposits (hematite) suggest Mars had a wet past.