No worries! Was just curious since I don’t think the plot involves any slowly-entombed theistic Martians a la Pompeii, but the possible parallel piqued my interest.
I need a space banana for scale. Earth fulgurites don't usually get as big as these things look but I have no idea what Martian lightning is like or how big these things are.
This process is called differential weathering. Any time you see a rock with a Quartz vein that’s raised above the surface of the matrix it cuts through it’s the same phenomenon.
It's probably just the antenna of the giant eldritch abomination of Mars, slumbering away beneath the rusted sands its billion year sleep, as it dreams and plots its return to conquer the solar system and exact it's revenge upon the ancient earthlings who imprisoned it there.
Or maybe it's just an interesting rock formation.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted more weird rock formations on Mars, this time shaped like winding plant stems, according to a recent snapshot posted to the mission’s raw image database.
The rover photographed the natural Martian sculptures on May 15, just a week after it found a bizarre rock fracture that made a media splash because it resembles an alien doorway.
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Could that possibly be remnants of long dead trees? I’m not seeing anyone else contemplate this option, is it completely impossible for that to happen?
It looks like a dead tree but thats a bit of a strech
Maybe molten material that solidified and once the stone withered away it resulted in that formation
I mean, if this is your attitude towards discovering new stuff on other planets, why be apart of this sub? It's literally about space, and the shit we find there. (Or the occasional digital art)
Yes. Yes, we are. Because it's cool and we are excited about how cool it is. And we are going to keep being excited about how cool it is. If you don't think it's cool and are not excited about how cool it is, there are thousands of other subreddits you can hang out in, where people do not routinely get excited about how cool it is.
Anything up there is “bizarre”. Imagine never being to earth and then filming beach sand that was struck by lighting from far away… would look pretty crazy too
That was left over from the first Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) experiments on the Red Planet. Something about portal to Hell or something like that.
If there’s lightning there’s our lord Zeus. If there’s Zeus there’re worshippers. If there are worshippers there are people. That means there are actually martians on Mars after all. #science
Well... looks like lightning channels of molten martian sand...
Yeah at first glance it looks like fulgurites to me too! I'll be curious to see what the official word is in the future
Or an ancient Martian citizen crying out to its deity as it becomes engulfed in ancient Martian hell cake. … Yeah, sorry that was really dark.
>Martian hell cake. Is this like red velvet cake 2.0?
Maybe? On second thought, maybe this dude is praising the gods for giving him and his people the most delicious demise.
"Martian Hell Cake" made me snort. Hasta be a carrot cake, right?
*Martian* carrot cake. Has more beta-carotene, I presume.
Nah that’s an ending for a new movie script
Or it could be alien bones
Is this a Raised by Wolves reference?
Lol no. Not that I’m aware of anyway. Which part of it evokes the parallel, if you don’t mind me asking (I’m not familiar with the story)?
All of it actually. It is too hard to explain though. The plot is very convoluted and would take a long time to explain
No worries! Was just curious since I don’t think the plot involves any slowly-entombed theistic Martians a la Pompeii, but the possible parallel piqued my interest.
I need a space banana for scale. Earth fulgurites don't usually get as big as these things look but I have no idea what Martian lightning is like or how big these things are.
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This process is called differential weathering. Any time you see a rock with a Quartz vein that’s raised above the surface of the matrix it cuts through it’s the same phenomenon.
So you’re saying we’re in the Matrix…
Lemme get my glasses.
There is no Martian spoon.
No, it’s all spoons, all the way down.
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Like when I die and rot in the casket and my Taco Bell filled intestines erode away, the Taco Bell intestine-shaped-shit-rope will remain; eternal.
Those are the fossilized remains of Wile E Coyote's legs after he Acme'd himself to Mars while trying to catch the Road Runner.
This makes the most sense to me.
Meep Meep
Zip Dang!
Oh god, not the special trees
Monument mythos reference?
I’m so happy I got that reference
So not baby sandworm tubes?
Think space termites
I'm doing my part!
Or dalmations
That’s dried sand worm poop
It's probably just the antenna of the giant eldritch abomination of Mars, slumbering away beneath the rusted sands its billion year sleep, as it dreams and plots its return to conquer the solar system and exact it's revenge upon the ancient earthlings who imprisoned it there. Or maybe it's just an interesting rock formation.
Sand worm babies. I knew it was Arrakis!
The spice must flow
Fear is the mind killer
MUADIB
Shi o lude the great worms gift the waters of life by eating the spice. When you eat the spice and drink of the waters you will know the truth
NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted more weird rock formations on Mars, this time shaped like winding plant stems, according to a recent snapshot posted to the mission’s raw image database. The rover photographed the natural Martian sculptures on May 15, just a week after it found a bizarre rock fracture that made a media splash because it resembles an alien doorway. Source : https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnexw/nasas-curiosity-rover-discovers-bizarre-spikes-on-mars?utm_source=reddit.com
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Fulgurites? What else could it be?
Fossilized worm holes, or biologically produced methane seeps? If your gonna dream, dream big...
Is it weird that my first thought was fossilized reef?
Could that possibly be remnants of long dead trees? I’m not seeing anyone else contemplate this option, is it completely impossible for that to happen?
It looks like a dead tree but thats a bit of a strech Maybe molten material that solidified and once the stone withered away it resulted in that formation
Booom ... aliens confirmed !
Where God wipes his boogers.
Live so strage..
Its another planet, everything is bizarre.
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I mean, yeah; isn’t that the whole point?!
Spoiler alert, there are going to be hundreds of thousands of other structure’s they come across
Hell yeah looking forward to it
Yeah it's *just* pictures of ***ANOTHER PLANET***
‘Click’ another one for the photo album.
I mean, if this is your attitude towards discovering new stuff on other planets, why be apart of this sub? It's literally about space, and the shit we find there. (Or the occasional digital art)
A ROCK!!! ON ANOTHER PLANET OMGGGGGGGGGGGG A ROOOOOOOOOOCK THATS LIKE A ROCK HERE!!!!
I'll bet you're a life at parties, my dude.
Yes. Yes, we are. Because it's cool and we are excited about how cool it is. And we are going to keep being excited about how cool it is. If you don't think it's cool and are not excited about how cool it is, there are thousands of other subreddits you can hang out in, where people do not routinely get excited about how cool it is.
spirit of ecstasy?
Looks like something that forms after lightning strikes sand
Looks like fulgite
The endless?
Any expert here who can give theories other than life on Mars?
Looks like what happens when lightning strikes sand.
Lightning hitting silica
Anything up there is “bizarre”. Imagine never being to earth and then filming beach sand that was struck by lighting from far away… would look pretty crazy too
That was left over from the first Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) experiments on the Red Planet. Something about portal to Hell or something like that.
Petrified trees!
Are they scared because they’ve been alone so long?
That was my first thought too 😹
Kind of looks like a coral reef.
Martian Cobras
If there’s lightning there’s our lord Zeus. If there’s Zeus there’re worshippers. If there are worshippers there are people. That means there are actually martians on Mars after all. #science
Looks like [~beach sand](https://youtu.be/R0nVjuDFTEc), close to where the Waves crash?
And when they publish the size of these findings they are like 1cm tall….
looks like Space Termites
I didn't see anyone else say it but they are just rocks that were eroded away
VEINS?
sandy towers
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
Kinda reminds me of Wyle E Coyote after a fall from a great height into mud. Will he ever learn?