Evidence Of Martian Biology?

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This bulk of this miscellaneous reporting will be about different types of evidence that share a common theme in some images. For example, evidence that is appearing and disappearing in the same location as well as movement from one location to another in the same general scene. The above first side-by-side split frame images are from the Opportunity rover taken on Sol 1832 with a little color added by me. It represents a relatively minor example brought to my attention by sharp eyed viewer Lottie.

In the left frame you see a white streak pointed out by a yellow arrow that is not there in the same location in the right frame. It may look sort of like something possibly on the camera lens or something possibly as a result of processing. However, this streak appears in the first three separate frames and in both left and right camera lens. This confirms that it is not likely a camera artifact. In the next five right and left lens shots following the first three, this streak is missing as represented by the right frame. This suggest that what we are seeing may be something small in high speed flight crossing the camera field of view.



The above second over-and-under split frame image demonstrates in the top frame a small dark object on the sand that looks suspiciously like a insect of some kind. This evidence was brought to my attention by another sharp eyed viewer Rob Clay who identified this as his "cricket" and would like for it to be named Robert after him. Yes you read it right, this is "Robert" the cricket.

Rob's theory is that if the evidence is in one shot and not in another of the same location, then the object must have moved on out of sight and therefore must be capable of movement and alive. It's a good theory but the problem with it is that there are only two images in the science data of this particular spot. So what we are actually talking about here is that the object appears in the left lens shot and not in the right lens shot.

That raises the question as to whether the object is merely debris on the left lens that is not present of course on the right lens. At first consideration that possibility lends too much ambiguity to the object to be classifying it as evidence. So Rob took this to other websites who recently did publish and sensationalize it calling it not surprisingly a Mars "cricket."

However, as I had also advised Rob at the time, I noted a tiny white spot very near and behind the location of the object. I suspected that this tiny white spot represented a small group of empty pixels. In preparation for this report, I took a closer look and noted some .jpeg compression artifacts clustering at this tiny white spot as you can see in the next image below.



In the above third side-by-side split frame image with a 200% zoom factor, note the closer view of the "cricket" on the left and the tiny white spot in the right frame. Next to the upper left of the white spot is a few .jpeg compression artifacts. It appears to me that something likely has been removed from this spot and the empty pixels are a carelessly left behind manifestation of this intrusion.

You see the rover imaging, although the camera work was promoted before launch as some of the best resolution ever utilized, as released to us it is in the .jpeg format and severely compressed. That kind of severe compression results in smaller display image file size but also very poor image resolution quality. In other words, what ever was gained by sharp high definition camera work resolution in taking the pictures is lost and severely compromised in the public image release presentation. This obviously prevents effective zoom and closer examination of evidence like this. Now it's hard not to contemplate how convenient that is should secrecy be someone's goal.

It is sort of like a plastic tub of margarine in the grocery store noting on the tub with special highlighting that it holds 25% more at the same old price. When you are looking at the exterior of the tub in the store, it can be seen to be larger than the original tub, so you assume you're getting 25% more product and buy it thinking your getting more for your money. However, when you get it home and open it up, you may find the tub only partially filled with essentially no more product in it than the regular tub or perhaps even less. It is an old con game of misdirection. We give to you on the up front and in your face but take it all away on the back end. Unethical certainly but also sometimes effective.

On the other hand, when something has been added or subtracted from one of these digital rover images after it is taken but before its public release, the general severe processing compression of the image causes .jpeg compression artifacts to cluster around such intervention sites within the image revealing the presence of manipulation. These tell tale compression artifacts can often be seen in the terrain, in the sky, and on the horizon line where the sky and ground have often been separated. I don't report on this very much because it is so plentiful and routine and I get sick of reporting on just image tampering.

This type of intrusion is what we have here. The compression artifacts are faint because what ever was removed was small. The processing level carelessness only comes into the picture by virtue of leaving empty bright white pixels behind like a beacon to draw a researcher's attention to the spot.

My point is here that someone went to the trouble to do this and I think we can assume they were not wasting their time in the process by messing with rocks just for the hell of it at this particular intrusion spot visible in the right frame image. The only likely thing anomalous here in this general scene is that dark insect looking object. So it is possible that a small living creature may have moved a few inches out of the sand and back toward the rocks where it was captured in the next right lens image and then later removed in that image.

Now understand that I can't of course know this for sure but the evidence here is very suggestive of this. That in turn suggests that the dark object can't be easily dismissed after all.



The above fourth image and the 4-12 images in this report deal with the same strange looking rock scene evidence as well as an even stranger looking object that also appears to shift locations within these rocks as viewed by the rover navigation camera starting on Sol 1830. This evidence was brought to my attention by a Japanese viewer who communicated in English poorly and I do not understand Japanese. However, he directed me to an all Japanese website http://www.t-xxx.com with this evidence and the images were clear enough and I have verified the evidence in the science data at the links provided here.

In the above image, the primary rock object is the one in the upper center with the crack in it and then consider the rocks out to either side of it. I have added a bit of color into these images to make the visuals a little more comfortable for you to view but nothing else except just a bit of clarifying. All investigative work here is my own and not associated with the Japanese site but thanks to them for some sharp work picking up on this.

Note that to the left of the rock with the crack in it is another larger rock. Note the spaces to the immediate left of these two larger rocks and what is there. These areas or spaces to the immediate left of these rocks and what is there will be important in subsequent images below. The left split frame shows another Sol 1830 example from another image of the scene on the left confirming what is there or rather I should say what is not there



Now the above fifth image represents the next time on Sol 1833 this scene was imaged by the rover navigation camera. You should know that none of this evidence appears in the Panoramic camera images that I could find.

As you can clearly see some strange looking upright object has appeared to the immediate left of the rock with the crack in it that was not there in the Sol 1830 image and it is pointed out by a yellow arrow and text. While you're at it, also pay attention to the strange look of the "rock" with the crack in it and the appendage with the flattened fluke looking end sticking out toward us from it in the foreground. I'll have something more on this item near the end of this report as an addition to it.

Yes the rock with the very prominent crack in it looks unusual and anomalous but the primary evidence here is that strange looking object appearing from no where to the immediate left of that cracked rock in the above 5th image. In the three day gap from Sol 1830 to Sol 1833, where did this object come from? Is it real? Is it rock? Is it image tampering and not real? Is it something alive capable of movement? All we can say with confidence is that it represents nothing familiar to us and it shouldn't be there unless image tampering or active life is a factor in its existence in this image.

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The above sixth image of the same scene was taken another three days later on Sol 1836. Note that the strange object is now completely gone from the left side of the cracked rock as though it never existed at all and does not appear elsewhere in this scene. Note also that the crack in the rock in its upper area now appears to be closing or at least minimized. So how could this be happening and what the heck is going on here?



Now we come to the above seventh image taken another seven more days later on Sol 1843. Note that the strange object is still gone on the left side of the cracked rock but also note that the cracked rock itself is no longer demonstrating that pronounced crack and the once pronounced crack seems to be closing from the top down. Is it actually closing or is it camera angle or is it the result of image tampering covering over the crack? Could this object not be a rock at all as we've of course assumed but something living and incredibly strange looking but unknown to us?

If that evidence isn't strange enough, look over there on the left side of the image at the evidence object pointed out by the yellow arrow and text. This object suddenly appears there after seven more days and after this object not being there in this spot in the previous Sols 1830, 1833 and 1836. It looks very similar to the strange object that appeared and then disappeared from the left side of the cracked rock. Did this object move the few feet from one place to the other? What is going on here with these "rocks" and this moving object?

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The official interpretation of the many light color objects would no doubt (as usual) be that they are sand dunes. They aren't that but what they are is a mystery. In the Chasma they normally appear in large numbers and as isolated objects not part of and distinct from any readily apparent loose sand matrix. That is why the resolution in this strip is compromised to primarily affect the background making it fuzzy and indistinct forcing any vegetation present to be blurry enough to merge and look a little like sand that could produce sand dunes. These objects are always in some aerodynamic shape oriented in the same direction and they can be much larger than what you see above as well as smaller. Take a look at more of these objects in my 2006 Report #099 and especially the 1st, 2nd and 6th images there.

These objects appear to be cohesive and resistant to strong external forces. That is just as well because some of the terrain in the Chasma where they are located most shows distinct signs of very strong rapid shallow and broad area liquid flows across its top surfaces encountering these very resistant objects and eroding the terrain around and behind them in ways more powerful than and not consistent with strong wind forces alone. These objects also sometimes string out in a long line but regardless of shape always oriented in the same direction as all the other objects. It also appears that they can join one with each other and also loose their cohesiveness (death?) but either is very rare.

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Again for answers please refer to my ex wife again

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In the above first image drawn from the MGS MOC M08-05237 strip you see literally a sea of these strange interconnecting and networking bright light color lines at a site located in the very top of the strip. So many in fact that they tend to overwhelm the visual sense so that it is difficult to focus on any one aspect of the scene.

Although it may look like a more distant view, the above scene actually represents 150% zoom factor over the official strip view. I've included this first of four images from this one strip here because it visually demonstrates both the larger coarse interconnecting light color line patterns in the top of the image generally getting progressively smaller and more dense the further down in this first image the view goes. You should know that this demonstrated pattern is only one of several ways in which this type of line evidence appears.

When I first started coming across this strange line evidence (lack of a better descriptive term) back in the year 2000, some of this evidence was in much larger very rectangular shaped interconnecting patterns. It can also on occasion be seen glowing in the dark, so you should be aware that it has not only a very strong light reflective quality in daylight as you see above but apparently may have a light retention and/or generating quality as well in darker settings. It is very strange representing a mystery. So I kept holding back reporting on it hoping to get this type of anomalous evidence better figured out and perhaps answer some of the questions that I knew this kind of evidence would generate with viewers.

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great post
frutty may be able to add to this post.

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I've visited this subject matter in the past and I'm coming back to it here again in this report. Further, I may even visit it again in the future if I can accumulate the right evidence for it. I'm trying to get a some points and some insight across on this that isn't readily apparent to the more casual visual observation. When you view many tens of thousands of images as I do, you gradually gain accumulative insight into anomalous evidence that it very difficult to readily share without resorting to overwhelming viewer's senses with tons and tons of subtle evidence that there is no room for here in this shorter reporting style of mine. The only way to try is to keep coming back to it presenting visual samples along and along and try to point out evidence that is often very subtle.

For example, the above many objects you see here in this first report image are officially and specifically identified as "dune fields" in Chasma Boreale. Now Chasma Boreale is a big long wedge shaped crease/indention/cut in the lower portion of the North Polar Cap, as viewed in Mars Chart 01, that reaches far up into the Cap overall surface and extends down beneath to the underlying Mars terrain upon which the North Pole Cap ice rests. This Chasma Boreale feature almost but not quite divides the Cap into two parts. The evidence here in this first image is located to the right at the very back of the Chasma cut where it narrow tapers and ends into the Cap surface.

Now "dunes" as they are normally thought of here on Earth are formed by accumulations of loose particulate sediment blown up into growing elevated piles by the wind. Individual elevated piles increasingly and partially blocking wind flow accumulate more and more wind carried sediment piling up against their upslope side on a increasingly broad spreading front until they start interconnecting with each other forming the sand mingling sand dunes that we are familiar with here on Earth. I think that most of us are familiar with what these Earth sand dunes look like in deserts around the world. The key to their elevated formation though is the presence of loose particulate sediment (sand) in the general surrounding terrain to facilitate their formation.



I've thrown in the above image to show you what real natural and typical Martian sediment dunes or drifts look like. Note that the prevailing wind direction here in this one is clearly evidenced in these trailing drifts and their much more obvious surface textures very unlike the previous evidence presented here. At least I know that here we are looking at the real thing.

I would have made the image darker and sharper so that these true deeper textures of the sediment dune could be better seen. However, that would have come at the expense of the dark tangle streak evidence as pointed out with the blue arrow darkening and obliterating far too much. Here we have some very pronounced dark streak evidence that certainly isn't dust devil trails or for that matter dark streak evidence confined within a well defined space as I've previously described.

If it looks to you like something very dark and very strange emerging in numbers from this shallow drop down dune ledge, it looks very much like that to me as well. This is a distant view and this dark evidence is actually larger than it appears here. It looks for all the world like a nest of huge serpents wiggling around and emerging from this ledge area. Could these be some kind of strange cooters and alive? Did immortal Medusa drop her head here in this spot and her "hair" is trying to escape? Your guess is as good as mine. Mars is indeed a strange place and it gets stranger the closer one looks beyond the official pabulum served up.