Weird Mars rover spirit image

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Sorry cyclonebuster.<br /><br />I do not see anything unusual.<br /><br />The fish eye view from the HazCam is looking towards Husband Hill & the sky is largely <br />obscured by the back of the solar arrays.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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cyclonebuster

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Enlarge the picture and then look at the middle object on top of the hill. It looks to have support structure in it.
 
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vogon13

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Camera is underslung beneath solar array. You are seeing the bottom of panel at the top of the picture.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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cyclonebuster

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That is on the horizon. You can see the wheels the rover clearly. The solar panels are above the wheels not on the horizon! In fact you can see the solar panel shadow next to the wheel on the ground.
 
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symbolite

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Just looked at the picure myself and I too wondered what that was then i realized that indeed it is the panel were seeing. Look at the objects left and right of the center object at the top. They look to be identical and also look like they have a man made structure. Then there is also the black dots on the horizon between each of the objects. I think that is enough to realize that all of it is part of the rover itself. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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brellis

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The entire central band of white is a void - they're just providing an unresolved image to the public before their image people coordinate the top and bottom portions of the pics.<br /><br />Either that, or this thread belongs in Phenomena <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#ff0000"><em><strong>I'm a recovering optimist - things could be better.</strong></em></font> </p> </div>
 
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brellis

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What looks like structures out at the horizon are in fact the upside-down reflections of the underside of the panels of the rover.<br /><br />Read Post #7 in this sciforum thread. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#ff0000"><em><strong>I'm a recovering optimist - things could be better.</strong></em></font> </p> </div>
 
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brellis

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well, that person at sciforum answers the mystery very well! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#ff0000"><em><strong>I'm a recovering optimist - things could be better.</strong></em></font> </p> </div>
 
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richalex

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Curses! You weren't supposed to see that! <br /><br />Seriously, it looks like the top of the image is the inside of some sort of hood on the rover over the top of the cameras. What looks like white hills is really the sky. The "structure" is not resting on the white "hill," but is part of the camera hood.
 
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nimbus

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You ADDED more noise to the data and call that an improvement in clarity?? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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jaxtraw

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It's an interesting optical illusion. It was only when I "told" my eyes that the pale area is the sky that I could sit the image as it really is. It's natural it seems for the brain to jump to the conclusion that the edge of the hood is the horizon, and the misinterpretation runs from there.
 
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cyclonebuster

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It is an illusion it is part of the rover and I can prove it!! I figured it out!
 
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Mee_n_Mac

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So it's not a ski lodge then. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />{thread saved from P-land !} <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>-----------------------------------------------------</p><p><font color="#ff0000">Ask not what your Forum Software can do do on you,</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">Ask it to, please for the love of all that's Holy, <strong>STOP</strong> !</font></p> </div>
 
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SpeedFreek

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No need to prove it as it seems everyone here but you already knew it was part of the rover. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>
 
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brandbll

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I don't believe it is part of the rover and i never will. It has to be the shelter from some sort of E.T. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="3">You wanna talk some jive? I'll talk some jive. I'll talk some jive like you've never heard!</font></p> </div>
 
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billslugg

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I agree brandbll. And they are EVERYWHERE! No matter where that hazcam looks - bingo - ET shelter. There must be millions of them up there. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>
 
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pirated

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i thought it was a wide-screen drive-in theater.....<br /><br />in the snow...<img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>Peace. </p><p><font color="#33cccc">-------------------------------------------------------------------</font> <strong><font color="#993300">I'm a Rock!</font></strong></p><p><font color="#33cccc">Little Johnny was a scientist. Little Johnny is no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.</font></p> </div>
 
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l3p3r

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made me laugh, that did <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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