Dear all, it's time to revive this thread!
Elon Musk's drawing board is about three things: Advent of electric car, facilitating growth of solar energy, making space travel affordable in order to make humans a multi-planetary species (and thereby extend the life-time of our civilization)
The first step to the latter mission is colonizing Mars. And I was wondering, how our second home is actually like. And after browsing through raw images produced by Mars rover Curiosity (Link:
Raw Images - Mars Science Laboratory) I'm totally caught up in Mars rocks, sand and anomalies.
Since TMC forum is the greatest machine of WAGs and speculation I've encountered so far, I'd appreciate a continous discussion of interesting original Mars pictures which are taken on a daily basis by Curiosity. It'd be awesome if there were actually people around who are familiar with soil and rocks (geologists?), because in some pictures there's things amateurs/lays like me would consider articial, but that's most probably due to a lack of knowledge in this field. Anyways, I'm just too curious what we might discover in the pictures with our "crowd speculation power". :biggrin:
Thus, here I start with a picture from Sol 924 (a couple of days ago) which I found particularly intruiging:
On the lower left corner there's a part which looks like remainings of an old building. I'm especially puzzled by the rectangles there... Any thoughts what this could be?
For those who might find this a stupid idea: I know there's NASA scientists constantly looking at those pictures, but I'm pretty sure in many cases they are also shrugging their shoulders while looking at these pictures.