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Mars Anomalies

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The landing site seems to be a good place to look for water and I find the rings in the side of the cliff below the landing site interesting and there is an anomaly to the right and down a way from the landing site, on the right side that looks like a cylinder. It’s on or near one of the rings, you can zoom in and out, almost looks like a bulls eye type anomaly over all.
We could be looking at weather layers in the ground that have been exposed.
What would happen there, on that kind of scale, geologically speaking, and the amount of time, looks to be great or long periods.


Almost looks like other things have been glossed away or brushed.
Could be anomalies from pixel artifacts but it is interesting geology especially the cylindrical object. Looking at that second link could it be geysers?

I’ll have to see if it shows up on the same picture at a different Nasa site.

Are our cameras that good or that bad?



http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=658&cID=13


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The medium size from that page.
http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/md_658.jpg
 
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Another critical deployment will be the first use of the 7.7-foot-long robotic arm on Phoenix, which will not be attempted for at least two days. Researchers will use the arm during future weeks to get samples of soil and ice into laboratory instruments on the lander deck.

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/05_25_landed_pr.php

Will they or won’t they find life is the next question and that should happen any day now.

More links,

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080526.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080525.html

And here,
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080527.html
 
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Will they or won’t they find life is the next question and that should happen any day now.
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They have the capability to detect life (microbes) if it is present?
Personally, I am pretty pessimistic about the possibility of them finding any life. If they have the capability to find it, but they don't find it, I think that means that there almost certainly isn't any life on Mars.
 
so far as I'm aware, not only are they not testing for the presence of life, but the equipment on this lander is pretty much incapable of detecting life even if it is there (unless it happens to be large enough to be visible to the camera, and just crawls around within the camera's view).

The purpose of these tests are not to determine if there is life on Mars, but if A) the components that scientists consider most necessary for life are present (if they aren't, it significantly damages any argument that there used to be life), and/or B) components that could be a result of biological processes some time in the past. In other words, the main question being addressed is, "Is it possible that, at some point in Mars' history, life existed there?"
 
Start worrying if they find tracks left by large tripods.
 
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Ya know, if they had force fields, they wouldn't need tripods to move their large vehicles around.
 
Here are two from Odyssey I think.
 

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