A "Doorway" on Mars? Curiosity Rover Mastcam Image Sol 3466

[Ninurta]

I wonder what size that thing is??

Cheers,

G

Snopes -the really not-state-funded judicial ass-heads of the internet, display a quote they received via
email from a JPL spokesperson:
“The team’s scientists underlined just how small [the crevice] is: roughly 30 centimeters wide and
45 centimeters across (11 by 17 inches)”

So even though it looks like a door and indicates an interior, Mars inhabitants are bigger than that door
you see in the picture. I hope that clears-up any concerns that it is artificial. It is a door-shaped opening,
but nothing to be concerned about when realising nature doesn't make straight lines.

Do you recall the "Bigfoot statue on Mars" event? I do. it was circa 2009 or 2010, just before the Faltskog Hoax broke.

I was involved in it to a degree. It spawned all those "it's a rock!" memes.

It left me scratching my head. A lot of folks said it was just a shadow, not mineral at all. So I went and hunted down specialized software calibrated to the mastcams to analyze it. The software worked on the principle that the mastcam lenses were a certain distance apart, and took two images, one per lens. If you could find both images, left and right, it could create a 3D image, and use the parallax and pixel resolution of the cameras to calculate size and distance.

So I hunted down all the images with the "statue" in them after I got hold of the software. The name of the software was "Algorimancer", I still have a copy if anyone is interested.

The "bigfoot statue" (some called it the "little mermaid") turned out to be an actual projection of rock, curiously shaped, and not a "shadow".  It was, as I recall, about 5 meters from the mastcam, and around 3 inches tall, on the edge of a really tiny "cliff". Not really huge for a statue... unless the creators were really tiny, too.

So you say this doorway is only 11"x17"? Imagine that...

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