Mystery 'doughnut' materializes in front of Mars rover: 'OH MY GOD! It wasn't there before!' Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are puzzled by a mysterious rock that has appeared in front of the Opportunity rover, Curiosity's never-say-die older sibling. Opportunity rock Is someone – or something – screwing with NASA? "Mars keeps throwing new stuff at us!" NASA Mars Exploration Rover lead scientist …
No, that would make it a metric size rather than "imperial" (Hah! USAians) sized.
Ring doughnuts, custard doughnuts, jam doughnuts, iced doughnuts and various other types of doughnuts all have their very own DIN/ISO standard size. This rock is very specifically jelly doughnut sized which in proper metric measurements is 1.023 jam doughnuts.
Though the "doughnut" isn't in the 1st picture there is a slight rounded shadow in exactly the same spot. This cannot be coincidence.
So it could be some chemical process whereby the shadow has grown into something solid or, perhaps less credibly, it could be an effect of different shadows producing a more distinct image, like the way the inside of a face mask can look like a projecting face.
Ir the chemical process might be life. I totally exclude the possibility of meteorite ir falling rock because it is statistically impossible it could land exactly on the spot of a previous depression.
I guess the defensive, insanity-inducing, crab-like rock critters mean the colonization of Mars is off limits, unless we can afford the weight allowance to bring along cocktail sauce, a pot of boiling water, crab forks and nutcrackers.
Then again, based on the box office, I might be the only one who saw that movie (documentary??). Thank God for late-night cable!
How come that the analysis indicates unusual soil composition compared to the surrounding rock?
Methinks it is the dried out remnants of a fruiting body, a bit like an Earth puffball.
We don't know how big it was to begin with, maybe thats what happened to the Russian probe, only a lot bigger and pushed it onto its side, causing it to fail mid signal.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope
studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered
the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds
immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely, they drew their plans against us.
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