Question:
What are the artifacts in this photograph? (There's something in the lower right too).

Choices:
Rocky wind-swept features of erosion
Real Martian being and his/her equipment?

 

Corn flour spilled on a tile floor

A kitty litter tray?
I see they use the more expensive "clumping" kind.

No no no! I assumed you all had seen this in the news. It's detail from a photograph taken by the Spirit rover on Mars. Some say it's an actual alien being, skeptics say it's merely eroded rocky outcrops. I'll buy that for the bigfoot looking thing, but what is that thing in the lower right? (You can click the pic for a larger version).

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No no no! I assumed you all had seen this in the news.

Kendor, yes I had, and that's why I replied as I did.

What do you think it is?

Definitely a Martian dinosaur. Looks like a bellicosaurus martianus, but it's hard to tell from this distance.

Kendor, could you post a link to an article or something? I'd like more information. For now, my vote is for "Tusken Raider on Tatooine" or "a scene from Planet of the Apes."

Story. Lot's of links there.

Another shot, and another 'thing' on the far right.

Thanks for the link, Kendor.
I vote for (from left to right): Tusken Raider, wayward turtle, and rock from my backyard. How did that get up there??

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Unfortunately Kendor the answer must be a 'I Don't Know'. Why?

Because I don't know - silly

However I can assure you that if life is found on Mars one of two scenarios will play out.

1. From the time of discovery onward NASA, JLP and the Governments of Earth, evil and dark as they are will bury the data and present us with cleaned up imaged or better, with movie stage images of what mars (or wherever they find life) is supposed to (by their thinking) look like.

Contrary to the lovely moronic folk who bring us such things as the Moon Landing Hoax theory and Face on Mars theory, there will be NO images released that would even remotely look like anything that those theories propose. Meaning that this particular photo would never have been released since it remotely looks like life on Mars.

2. Life is found, NASA, JPL, Governments of Earth being the benevolent and scientific creations that they are immediately spread the world to every nook and cranny on earth that "We are not Alone!!!!". Awards and ceremonies and of course a petition for trillions of dollars for a flagging space program would be handed over to send even more rovers, and probes and even people to, in this case, Mars.

Even if it was something as insignificant as a single brick that really supported the past existence of a civilization, NASA, JPL, and all of the other agencies would be suddenly rich beyond their wildest dreams because they would make most certain that public attention was not only focused on The Brick, but also that the people would be programed to understand the need for a billion dollar bolt driving set to help build the trillion dollar super space ship with deluxe auto nav remote pressurized buggy probe, and of course all of their back ups because, even though Mars is so far away and all of that, finding proof that there was another people even a billion years ago is worthy of our attention.

We can not have it both ways, meaning a corrupt evil government hiding aliens and alien artifacts 'accidentally' letting a photo (or more like thousands of photos) slip through with 'evidence' that John Whats his name can 'easily' render to show the ancient strong holds of the Barsoom peoples and of course their equivalent of the Giza Plataea.

If NASA, JPL, etcetera ad naseum were hiding something from us, you can rest assured that not one single photo would 'leak' out. And even if one did, you can be most certain that it would be a one time mistake, not a repeatable one that continues to feed the conspiracy theories of ET.

While I do not know what those objects are in the photo(s) I know what they are not - signs of life.

Space junk from one of the many objects shot into space in all directions from earth from the U.S., the U.S.S.R., France, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, India and Israel since 1957.

Good candidates would be the first Mars flyby spaced by the USSR in 1962. Contact was lost at only 11,000km out.

or the first successful Mars flyby (it returned pictures) spaced in November 1964 by the USA (Mariner 4).

But any wayward man-made space junk could end being caught up by the gravitational field of any planet, and then crash.

The U.N. registry records 7,050 objects launched as of 2005.
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But the situation is much more complex. Each object launched can disintegrate into many smaller objects.
"The largest space debris incident in history was the Chinese anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test on January 11, 2007.[13] The event was estimated to have created more than 2300 pieces (updated 12/13/07) of trackable debris (approximately golf ball size or larger), over 35,000 pieces 1cm or larger, and 1 million pieces 1mm or larger." HERE.

Even simple man-made orbiting bodies can spin out of orbit and fly off in a direction determined by their speed and position at the time that they destabilize.

Since none of the planets except earth have oxygen sufficient to burn up the objects before hitting the surface, there's lots of potential for artifacts to be found to fuel more woo-woo fantasies in the future.

Of course the gas giants are a different story. There the objects would either in time be drawn into the rings, or plunge into the body of the planet to be deformed beyond all recognition by pressure (yielding heat).

This of course does not mean that there is no life beyond earth. It just means that a photo of an unusual shape on the surface of a planet does not mean the object was intelligently designed. Even if it was, maybe it was designed by humans.

[Sorry, that U.N. website address appears to have busted the capacity of this site's URL-handler. Google How many objects have been launched into space?
It's the second item in the list of sites.]