MARS DUNES, TREES & TECHNOLOGY?
Report 177
January 18, 2010
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
Many of you around the world
have likely seen the above Mars image recently circulating on the Internet
and in the various news media. The source of this image is the MRO HiRISE
science data and the strip is PSP_007962_2635 found at the above link. The
media speculative hook is that the above evidence looks an awful lot like
trees on Mars but isn't really. It's obviously a beautiful image with its
colors and shadings produced at official level (I'm envious) and this visual
impact is no doubt one of the main reasons why the media is so readily reporting
on it.
The official description of what is going on in this image in a brief caption
at the image site is as follows. "There is a vast
region of sand dunes at high northern latitudes on Mars. In the winter, a
layer of carbon dioxide ice covers the dunes, and in the spring as the sun
warms the ice it evaporates. This is a very active process, and sand dislodged
from the crests of the dunes cascades down, forming dark streaks."
In other words, this evidence looking like upright vertical forms and possibly
trees is just an optical illusion.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-tree-photo-illusion-100113.html
Also, at the above link, there
is a bit more in depth explanation along the same lines where the NASA media
mouthpiece Space.com interviewed a MRO scientist team member about this. While
you're there be prepared for the usual indoctrination crapola treatment as
they stress the "illusion" concept and throw in a few buzz words
like "bigfoot," etc. trying to influence popular perception toward
the ridiculous.
It is obvious that this evidence is actively being orchestrated into the media
and public perception at this time for some unknown reason. After all, this
particular MRO image was acquired on 4/7/2008, so why now? A trap? Now my
reporting here is not really going to fly in the face of this stated official
position too strongly. Rather, I'm going to just be adding some information
missing from this official reporting that is none-the-less in my opinion germane
to any thinking person's consideration of this type of evidence.
For example, when one examines the so called dune field wider expanse, it
soon becomes apparent that the dunes crests/peaks are in various stages of
splitting on the top along the dune's length. This forms a large split depression
and it is down in this depression below the level of the dune crest where
the objects in question are appearing. On what appears to be the bottom of
the individual objects there is a more solid bell shape to the object and
then what looks like a vegetative bushy head (top) on the other end and these
two ends are connected by what appears to be a solid trunk.
It should be noted that the bell shaped "bottom" so often associated
with certain trees here on Earth (Cypress come to mind) always seems to be
located in the dune crest split depression. This of course reinforces the
impression that these are rooted "trees" of some kind. Following
are some sample closer images of this evidence that tends to support the look
of trees.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
My selection of the above 2nd–5th
images tend to support the so called "tree" evidence look but they
are not definitive in that regard. For example, note that if these are upright
vertical formations where are their shadows? The problem is that I do not
trust the imaging and suspect the shadows have been removed or at least subdued.
Note the 4th image and what I've pointed out with the yellow arrows that may
be remnant shadows not completely removed.
I don't think that this is the case but do recognize that there is some possibility
that the far wall of the depression could be producing dark material that
could be pouring down into the depression bottom and piling up there forming
a bell like shape at the bottom of each flow. On the other hand, look closely
at the 5th image. Note that the bell like base area portions seem to be occupying
multiple levels further into the background. This is not consistent with dark
material pouring out of a one dimensional back slope but is consistent with
these objects being individual free standing formations rising from the depression
ground level at different locations.
Further, in the 3rd image note what the yellow arrow points out. It clearly
appears to be two separate root systems branching down from the same bell
shape. This is strong evidence suggesting that the bell shapes are in fact
root systems. You should be aware that this kind of smaller detail is likely
only going to be available in the larger JP2 imaging. I sourced my images
here from the largest JP2 image which is 1,429.8 MB. That image took well
over a hour just to download it on a fast Internet connection.
The official position is that the so called "dunes" are covered
in a layer of ice. Since the official position does not permit contemplation
of water ice in an open location like this, then it by default must be carbon
dioxide ice. In my examination of the JP2 image and the "dunes,"
I will agree that they are covered by ice. In fact, I'm going to suggest that
the dunes themselves are ice but that ice is water rather than CO2.
So how do I arrive at this conclusion? Because close inspection reveals that
ice has a highly reflective wet moisture coating on it and it is very translucent
in many large areas. I'm not sure whether CO2 can have
that much ice transparency on a planet like Mars but I'm satisfied that highly
reflective sheen reflecting strongly off of some dune surfaces is likely moisture.
As many of you will know, CO2 in open environs in a
warming trend sublimates directly from a solid
(ice) to a gas and does not have an intermediate liquid state as does water.
If this is water ice, it may just be possible that the loss of Mars' great
seas was so gradual that it allowed some sea life to adapt to open air conditions.
Corals, nudibranchia, and sea slugs are examples that come to mind. Maybe
some Mars sea creatures of the ancient past where consistent cold environment
temperatures permit carry the water around them in the form of a water ice
shell combined with soil. Perhaps these dark objects are temporary retractable
projections like breathing appendages? It's speculation but I suspect we're
going to eventually learn that a lot of things we never considered before
may be realities on Mars.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
Now the above 6th image moves
us out of the more densely packed dunes collection area in the same image
strip and demonstrates a couple of smaller dunes a little further out in the
Polar terrain. Note that these dunes are characterized by having a extended
tapering tail on them. Note also that they are showing signs of fissures just
forming at the dune crest and continuing down along the dune's length.
The obvious conclusion is that the central fissures may eventually result
in a widening split down the partial length of the dune with a depression
forming as has happened with nearby dunes in the official colorized image.
Note the dark material concentrating the heaviest in the center area of the
broadest portion of the dune. It is not hard to imagine these being the site
of future broader and thicker upright "tree" formations IF
the splitting process continues exposing the inner lower areas of the dune.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
As you can see in the above
7th–9th images, the dark material coming out from within the dune mass
via these fissures also appears to be upright and vertical. If you question
this, note the many parallel ridges on the light color dune mass and that
the largest concentrations of the dark material completely ignore and are
unaffected by crossing these rough directional patterns. Do you think that
this would be the case if the dark material was merely dark loose sand pushed
out, hugging, and flowing across this dune mass surface and down its slopes?
The answer is obvious.
I don't claim to have a definitive answer but this forgoing closer inspection
information when added collectively to consideration clearly begins to erode
confidence in the official theory as to what the dark material on the "dunes"
might be. I do not think that these are permanent trees in any kind of sense
we here on Earth might be familiar with but neither do I think they are dark
sand either. What I do suspect is that there is some kind of life in these
dune shapes unknown to us and that these dark objects are temporary projections
of that life, perhaps a relatively temporary reproductive bloom of some kind
like a mushroom.
For example, an independent life form like a tree might emerge from ground
level into the open to struggle for life as a partially above ground form
as long as possible. That kind of life duration design would almost certainly
seek the sunlight and respond to the gravity of the planet with a vertical
configuration designed to counteract that gravity. An example that comes to
mind is a tree here on Earth emerging on a steep mountain slope. As a weak
sprout it will quickly orient to optimize sunlight access and orient true
vertical to counter gravity regardless of the angle of the slope is grows
on.
It must be noted that this Mars dark evidence does not do that. Its emergence
is fully effected by the angle of any slope it emerges from including even
horizontal without reorienting to vertical and/or sunlight. If it emerges
on a slope, then its emergence from the slope matches the angle of the slope.
Obviously dark sand pour out would not behave in this indifferent to angle
orientation manner.
If it is life as opposed to dark sand, that suggests that it is merely a projection
like a mushroom of a underlying main body and not an individual life form
unto itself seeking sunlight optimization. It suggests that its purpose and
presence above ground will be temporary. If a mushroom pushes out from level
ground, then it will be vertical but, if it pushes out from the side of a
vertical tree trunk, then it may be horizontal. Just a thought.
Okay, so much for the exploration of the "dunes" and "tree"
concepts. However, there's more evidence here in this strip. Go back up to
the 7th image and take a look along the right edge of this image. You'll see
a thin faint vertical line there that you likely missed in the first observation.
The question is what is this? It's potentially the next stage in the evidence
revelation here. Remember my use of the word "technology" in this
report's title followed by a question mark?
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
The above 9th image demonstrates
a medium size (huge to us) dune. It's in a standard aerodynamic configuration
for these type of objects on Mars. Note the sharp well defined edges in the
curved back area. This suggests an ice makeup. Note the strong sunlight reflectivity
off of the upper right rear section. This suggests a moist surface characteristic
of water ice thin melt conditions and not characteristic of CO2
ice melt.
That's one point but the main evidence is the three very thin vertical lines
pointed out with the yellow arrows same as the one line on the right side
of the 7th image. Note that they cross this huge object without being effected
by its presence in the terrain. This is typical of this "line" evidence.
This suggests that these lines are either artifacts that are not part of the
Mars environment and do not belong in the image or they represent some kind
of advanced transport technology on Mars.
So is this evidence and question as to what it may be the "trap"
for someone like me and the real reason that there is an official push to
get this image strip content into the media? Note that terrain around the
"dune." There is simply no real geological detail in it. Any true
detail appears to be covered over with smudge and yet these very slender lines
are still prominent and unaffected by such "treatments." That is
very suspicious.
If the lines are image artifacts, I can tell you that they appear to be part
of the original image and not later additions into the image. That suggests
that they were introduced before processing the image strip. If they are something
like real transports across the terrain, I can tell you that they exist well
above the terrain and their path is unaffected by any irregularities in the
terrain they may pass over. Further, there are no supports holding anything
up associated with them and they are simply to small to be registering shadows
in the terrain and so that is not an issue here.
As you see, this evidence is barely visible even in this huge 1,429.8 MB JP2
image and even at 100% resolution and easy to miss. Because of that, could
they have just missed this evidence? The smudge treatments not effecting the
lines tends to deny that as a consideration. Even so, you can just see that
there are dark objects within the line. Now let's take a closer look at one
of these lines in the images below, in fact samples from the one on the left
of the huge ice dune.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
As you can see, the dark objects
turn out to be many darker diamond shaped objects or square objects rotated
45º to form the diamond shape. I can tell you that some objects are alone,
some in groups of 2–6 and some in longer strings in tandem as you see
above. Most are in a darker color that becomes even darker at the point where
the diamond shapes overlap each other in tandem. Some also have dark directional
"V" shapes in them as you can see above but those are less numerous.
Since these are such mathematically perfect abstract shapes and all repetitively
the same in general, the natural tendency is to assume that they are image
artifacts. However, if so, I have never see it before in the MRO imaging.
I can also confirm that these lines are not associated with image splicing
as that is different and separately identifiable in this image strip.
All three of the lines in the 9th images are basically identical, just with
different combinations and numbers of dark objects in them. They are all arrow
straight. They all parallel the right edge of the strip and each other and
are not found elsewhere in the strip. They do not stop or intersect anything
else in the strip. The entire length of each of these three courses is full
of these dark objects. In other words, if they represent some kind of traffic
rather than image artifacts, that's one hell of a pile of transport traffic.
However, that isn't all, take a look at the following image.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
The above 14th image is of a
4th course that is closest to the right edge of the strip. It too is arrow
straight and parallel to the right edge of the strip and to the other three
courses. However, here the traffic (for the lack of a better term) is very
light and very spaced out. The two panels on the right represent a section
with heavier traffic that is not typical of this
fourth course. Note that there is no light color line defining the course
as there is with the other three heavily trafficked courses.
If this were real Mars evidence, I would say that the light color continuous
line is there in the other three courses because the traffic is so heavy in
those courses. I would say that the light color line appearance is not a tube
or structure but condensate forming in the thin atmosphere from the friction
and heat signatures of the very heavy traffic. That is also why there is no
light color line in the fourth course because the traffic there is too light
to cause enough atmospheric friction or heat signature to form it.
If this were real, I would say that this is evidence of some seriously highly
advanced technology. I would observe that this is probably a commercial operation
and that these are uniform containers traveling at high speed between different
points on the planet on auto and remotely controlled. I would observe that
kind of precise linear evidence would have been too small to have registered
on any imaging less than such a huge JP2 1.4+ GB image file.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_2635
However, I cannot confirm with
confidence whether this is something real or is it image artifact that I've
not seen before? Certainly the mathematically perfect shapes and directions
give one pause and suggest artifact even as it does not rule out high tech
engineering down on the planet. Even more importantly, from my point of view,
if the lines are real, why would they be left out of the smudge treatments
that cover everything below and around the lines? It's possible that they
missed this but not very likely considering the smudge applications in the
same areas of the image strip. Linear straight lines and geometric shapes
are after all one of the first and main things that the AI automated tampering
software is designed to deal with early on. This was true long before the
time of the MRO imaging.
There is also another consideration. Could this be some form of communication
or labeling embedded in the strip similar to visual Morse code as represented
by the numbers of the dark objects and their positions within the lines? If
so, I do not have the time or capability to work on something like that. Any
of you who feel inclined to tackle this line of thought, feel free to do so
and get back to me if you turn up something positive.
Since I have with this reporting exposed this likely in advance of what ever
they've intended, I expect that they will take the position that it is their
introduction into the strip at original processing level. After all, whether
true or not, what choice do they really have now?
Well there you have it, a report covering more than the issue of trees on
Mars in this particular image strip. I'm still suspicious as to why this strip
and its evidence is currently being pushed into the media at official level.
Are they trying to get ahead of and deal with some of their own not in the
need to know loop or are they trying to set you and I for something else?
If it was just to stir up and keep interest in space exploration alive and
well, perhaps they got more than they bargained for? We'll see.
, Investigator
