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MAA-015: Pipe or Life Form?
- Image Analysis Report
Image Analysis Report
IMAGE DETAILS
MAA Report Ref: MAA-015
Report date: July-August 2017
Research Status: Open - Possible mechanical debris
Description: Pipe or Life Form?
Approximate size: 50-100 cm
Mission: Spirit Rover
Location: Gusev Crater
Found by: Unknown
Image date: Sol 229 Aug 2004
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
Graphics/image editing: Mars Archaeology Archive
Image source: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/2/p/229/2P146694689EFF8600P2402L7M1.JPG
OBSERVATIONS
This provocative image throws up the possibility that if we are not looking at an artefact, then we may well be looking at a life form.
POTENTIAL FOR AN ARTIFICIAL OBJECT
A tubular form with a possible circular hole at the end, resembling a pipe.
COMMON EXPLANATION
Optical illusion.
MAA-015.2 Pipe or Life Form? - from a distance - Sol 229.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/2/p/229/2P146694689EFF8600P2402L7M1.JPG
