mongrel

Do you have a source for these claims, ExtraSense?

Dilandau

It's a living rock! I have seen one before on discovery channel!

foolsparade

I can't decide if your funny or i'm just high.

ExtraSense

The source is actual pictures, taken by the rover.

lpetrich

For more such Martian pareidolia, go to Richard Hoagland's site. And for a more skeptical view, go to The Bad Astronomer on Richard Hoagland.

LadyXoc

Why is the Martian wearing a fur coat?

mongrel

So, what you're saying is, from these two frames- which look to me to be pictures of the same object taken at slightly different angles, and different times of the Martian day, judging by the changing light:

you came up with the following:

This is an extraordinarily detailed description of events, yet you claim to have seen all this in just two frames?

I don't see any "observation post"- just a bunch of rocks. I don't see any "Martian"- just a big lump of rock on which the light at that time of day made it loosely resemble a gorilla wearing a Storm-Trooper's helmet, on all-fours. Of course, this is just assuming the frames haven't been doctored in any way...

The thing is, ExtraSense, the "story" I, and I suspect most of us here, see in those two frames, is this:

Spirit took a couple of frames of a couple of somewhat interestingly shaped rocks, and "moved on to the shining horizons". End of story.

Until you, or anyone else, can provide credible evidence to the contrary, I will continue to think that you are simply "seeing" something that just ain't there.

ExtraSense

The two frames of the movie have been cut from the large original pictures,
and serve mainly to compare the Martian's images.

Had you ever read that CIA uses image analysts to interpret sattelite imagery?

ExtraSense

Have not you hear it is cold out there?
Pity NASA forget home the thermometer

ES

mongrel

Ok, I'm with you so far...

But you've lost me here. Mainly to compare the rock-which-very-loosely-resembles-a-gorilla-Storm-Trooper with what?

Of course I've heard of the CIA satellite image analysts- such as the analysts who saw a few rail-cars(or was it shipping containers on trucks?) in Iraq and interpreted it to mean the Iraqis had chemical and/or biological weapons...

Analysts, like the rest of us, can be very, very wrong at times.

You still haven't shown any credible evidence to back up your extraordinary claims, ExtraSense. All you've done is provide two rather dodgy-looking frames supposedly cut from footage shot by the Spirit rover, and made repeated, unsubstantiated, incredible assertions. We need more than that if we are to take these claims seriously.