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(Some NASA Guy)		Check out this picture from the Spirit rover. What is that in the horizon on the right? (marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov)		268
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Foaming		2004-02-07 04:51:41 AM

Idunno... is it a Starbucks? What are you looking at?

LaChanz		2004-02-07 04:58:43 AM

WMD?

Red_2		2004-02-07 05:00:45 AM

This: WTF is this?

Foaming		2004-02-07 05:03:25 AM

It's dust on the camera lens.

cola		2004-02-07 05:05:12 AM

Looks like one of those things from Space Invaders.

LaChanz		2004-02-07 05:07:31 AM

They're coming! They're coming!
(...runs out of house screaming like little girl...)

cola		2004-02-07 05:10:18 AM

No, not that one.

Http://www.damegames.com/games/spaceinvaders.htm

The top row.

Red_2		2004-02-07 05:23:55 AM

Is there wind on Mars? How could dust get on the lens? If you look at other pictures taken from the same camera, its not there.

Only thing I can think of, beside the ufo lol, is could it be a meteor?

Foaming		2004-02-07 05:28:10 AM

There have been dust storms that covered the entire visible surface of the planet as recently as 1971.

cola		2004-02-07 05:34:54 AM

Well, I still think my theory is entirely plausible.

Foaming		2004-02-07 05:45:09 AM

I'll admit those top row aliens ARE scary.

MarkAndrew		2004-02-07 06:29:17 AM

It's a bird!

Unfreakable		2004-02-07 06:37:50 AM

It's a plane!

Dufus		2004-02-07 06:56:20 AM

Looks like Drew's lawn gnome to me.

Ghost Rider		2004-02-07 09:18:47 AM

Looks like a dust speck to me, too, Red_2, although you might ask these guys what they think.

Red_2		2004-02-07 09:32:25 AM

Wow, finally got a link green lighted after all this time!

trdotnet		2004-02-07 11:22:12 AM

It's a glorious day for NASA, the entire space community, and Red_2

josh_s08		2004-02-07 11:27:26 AM

a black dot..what?

jokrswild		2004-02-07 11:27:55 AM

Cosmic Ray. Causes the pixel to max out.. Happens in research situations all the time, you just have to ignore it.

gilmoure		2004-02-07 11:28:15 AM

It's just a plane. We have them over our house all the time. Just sucks when one of them crashes next to a playground.

Newt13		2004-02-07 11:29:33 AM

It's a wether balloon, duh.

mutilato		2004-02-07 11:29:52 AM

I had actually lost a little black dot just the other day.

worthlessjuan		2004-02-07 11:30:03 AM

It's the MetLife blimp.

Newt13		2004-02-07 11:30:08 AM

that would be weather*

Interceptor1		2004-02-07 11:31:19 AM

It's a delivery spacecraft. Just more proof that Dominoes delivers.

Snarfangel		2004-02-07 11:31:32 AM

Maybe it's Phobos or Deimos. Probably not, but it's a possibilitiy. You could find out if you knew exactly where the rover was looking and what time it was, but it would be a lot of work.

Gwendolyn		2004-02-07 11:31:57 AM

Can't be dust. That image is composed of a bunch of smaller images and then pasted together. That speck would be repeasted throughout the picture.

I'm gonna guess the missing Beagle2? Or maybe one of the 50 other thing's we've lost on or around mars?

DeadBaby		2004-02-07 11:32:13 AM

a cat probably, damn cats

Squeezer		2004-02-07 11:32:25 AM

dust on the camera lense or something from a dust storm. nothing to see here people, move along.

yes there are winds on mars. mars has an atmosphere with clouds and dust storms.

Ouroborus		2004-02-07 11:32:49 AM

i think the proper technical term is schmutz

nesspk		2004-02-07 11:32:50 AM

If the camera rotated to the right, and the spec moved to the left, it might be something, but otherwise I go with the dust theory.

dmnstr8		2004-02-07 11:32:51 AM

duh, you guys are so gullible. It's obviously just a crater weasel. They're everywhere craters congregate.

cunning_linguist_dc		2004-02-07 11:34:09 AM

2004-02-07 11:31:32 AM Snarfangel
Maybe it's Phobos or Deimos.

that would be my guess as well ...

Frank_Lee_Mental		2004-02-07 11:34:13 AM

A walking clock?

WizardX		2004-02-07 11:34:28 AM

It's swamp gas from a weather balloon that's trapped in a thermal pocket and reflecting the light from Venus.

Obviously.

/flash

FifthColumn		2004-02-07 11:34:37 AM

It... it's a space peanut....

jpe_dty		2004-02-07 11:35:10 AM

Do not taunt the happy fun ball.

farcrow		2004-02-07 11:35:44 AM

I for one welcome our new Martian masters.

/someone was gonna say it

Ouroborus		2004-02-07 11:36:07 AM

...something wonderful

Anti_Freak_Machine		2004-02-07 11:36:56 AM

Jimmy Hoffas head?

nytmare		2004-02-07 11:37:40 AM

Where's your super advanced secret image enhancement technology now, NASA? Huh? Huh?

Denial		2004-02-07 11:38:20 AM

*puts on tinfoil hat and hunkers down for the duration*

Digital_Meltdown		2004-02-07 11:38:36 AM

That's no moon. It's a space station!

crazycooter		2004-02-07 11:38:48 AM

this was probably filmed in the same studio where they faked the moon landing and they forgot to get rid of the model of the capsule that was orbiting the moon while they landed.

cortez		2004-02-07 11:38:53 AM

How can you ask a question like that and NOT ENABLE VOTING??!?

Megain		2004-02-07 11:39:27 AM

it's a giant ball comprised of all the missing socks from the laundry. same thing that the asteroid belt is made of. nothing new here

Rually		2004-02-07 11:39:48 AM

Its clearly a alien warship in the distance. I for one will not sucumb to them. Unless they have a QuadLaser, in which I will happily bow down before our new merciful Martian Overlords.