Mysterious Mars Rock!

[Will Carry]

 

 

    Anyone who has ever driven on rocky ground knows that wheels will kick up rocks. The Mars Rover that took this picture kicked up this rock as it drove away.  I picked that up right away.  If those Eggheads can't figure that out then they need to hire a Redneck to work with them.

[NRA]

what?

[peejman]

Anyone who has ever driven on rocky ground knows that wheels will kick up rocks. The Mars Rover that took this picture kicked up this rock as it drove away. I picked that up right away. If those Eggheads can't figure that out then they need to hire a Redneck to work with them.

If you pay close attention to the wheels on the rover and how excruciatingly slowly it moves, you'd understand their confusion.

[RobertNashville]

I read this story the other day...I would have posted it here but didn't think anyone would be interested - the story I read yesterday or the day before said they have already assumed it was the rover's wheels that kicked it up (not that there is any way to know for sure)...the interesting thing is how different this rock is from what they've found before.

 

Have you heard about the relatively "nearby" star that they just saw going super nova a few days (well, 12 million years) ago?

Edited January 23, 2014 by RobertNashville

[Will Carry]

  The Mars Rover is a source of potential energy.  Wheels rolling over rock, even slow rolling wheels, can slip if all of the weight of the rover is on the other wheels.  I see no other sources of enough energy to move a rock on Mars.  I'm thinking they are playing this for the media, trying to promote interest in the Mars Expedition.

 

Robert of NASHVILLE. I am very interested in astronomy, ever since I was a kid.  I know all the constellations and where many of the galaxies and nebula are. With computers you don't even need a telescope any more.

Edited January 23, 2014 by Will Carry

[RobertNashville]

If you pay close attention to the wheels on the rover and how excruciatingly slowly it moves, you'd understand their confusion.

Yeah it's something like 0.5 MPH I think!

[peejman]

The Mars Rover is a source of potential energy. Wheels rolling over rock, even slow rolling wheels, can slip if all of the weight of the rover is on the other wheels. I see no other sources of enough energy to move a rock on Mars. I'm thinking they are playing this for the media, trying to promote interest in the Mars Expedition.

I agree that they're trying to generate interest, but they would have detected the wheel slippage as each wheel is independently driven and controlled.

I think one of the past wind storms deposited it on the rover and it finally fell off.

[Will Carry]

    That could be but what kind of wind could blow a rock the size of a donut?  I think you are on to something even though the wheels being independently controlled doesn't mean they won't slip. It could have fallen off the rover and may have fallen on to the rover at some time previously! That's it!  I knew the rover was the most likely culprit but maybe the wheels aren't the cause. I love a mystery!

 

   At a speed of 0.5 mph, I know it wasn't designed by a redneck. That's jest too slow.

Edited January 24, 2014 by Will Carry

[RED333]

It is a turd from a unknown life form, my story and I am sticking to that!

[gun sane]

It's a throwdown rock.  Things like this happen every time NASA's looking at a budget cut.

[Sam1]

Alex Jones said that the lizard man working for the secret service drove an MRAP to Mars and planted it in preparation for building an intergalactic FEMA death camp.

Edited January 24, 2014 by Sam1

[Metalhead]

[Guest Lester Weevils]

It is a petrified IUD long ago misplaced by princess Dejah Thoris of Helium, Barsoom.

[Guest Lowbuster]

Looks like something fell off of it. I was thinking it had a robotic arm to pick things up. The rock looks out of place, not turned up.

[Guest TankerHC]

NASA knew what caused it 6 hours after it happened last week. One of the wheels on the rover is permanently stuck at an angle and has been for some time. They were turning the rover, which turns faster than it moves forward and backwards. While turning the stuck wheel dug in and kicked the rock loose and up on the other rock. Same with the Martian squirrel, NASA had that figured out and explained on 3 different Science sites an hour after the photos returned and 2 weeks later people were still claiming there was a live squirrel on Mars. I monitor half a dozen Science site's and in particular Live Science and NASA. Both are pretty quick to catch something and cover it before those flat earthers and those wearing the tin foil hats with antenna get hold of it. Last week and a half all I've been doing is watching NASA along with posting some blurbs. Bout tired of this one handed typing crap. NASA needs to investigate that rabbit i saw on Mars yesterday. Check out the "Hand of God" galaxy from last week. I don't know if that was declared a photoshop fake but it did pop up on NASA TV

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[enfield]

I put that rock there!

 

Now that that's settled, who called off the rescue mission to Benghazi, and when did they do it?

[JWC]

Looks like an indian sex stone to me

[RobertNashville]

In the beginning of this thread I thought we might actually have a fairly serious discussion about something scientifically interesting.

 

I guess I was premature in thinking that. :doh:

[Caster]

Looks like a cast boolit that hit a hard surface.  

[enfield]

It could be a Martian weather rock!  Looks like it's clear, cold and dry today.  How's that for a serious discussion of a damned rock?  :D

[Mark A]

I hope this shuts all you round earthers up forever. I was in North Carolina the other day skipping rocks into the ocean. I hit one juuuusssst right and it skipped right out of view.

 

It is completely obvious to me that it skipped right off the edge of the world and eventually landed on mars.

 

the fact that it happened as the rover went by was just fortunate luck on my part.

 

Mark

[vontar]

 

 

 

    Anyone who has ever driven on rocky ground knows that wheels will kick up rocks. The Mars Rover that took this picture kicked up this rock as it drove away.  I picked that up right away.  If those Eggheads can't figure that out then they need to hire a Redneck to work with them.

 

If they hired us Rednecks to work there, we would have Big Foot up there driving around. 

 

[vontar]

Lets wake this thread up for good reason.

 

Mystery of Mars 'doughnut rock' solved

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/tech/innovation/mars-mystery-rock/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

 

 

Researchers now say Pinnacle Island is a piece of a larger rock, which Opportunity broke and moved with its wheel in early January. Further images from the rover reveal the original rock that the rover's wheel must have struck.

 

 

The winner is OP.

Will Carry

 

Anyone who has ever driven on rocky ground knows that wheels will kick up rocks. The Mars Rover that took this picture kicked up this rock as it drove away.  I picked that up right away.  If those Eggheads can't figure that out then they need to hire a Redneck to work with them.

[RobertNashville]

Final solution..."Researchers have determined that the martian rock resembling a doughnut is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA’s rover Opportunity."

 

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/02/mars-rover-heads-uphill-after-solving-doughnut-riddle?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News1_Sub_140221_Final&utm_content=

[Will Carry]

       Thanks for the confirmation.  I knew sooner or later they would figure it out.  We country boys like to talk slow and such but it's just to throw off the Yankees. The ambient atmospheric pressure on Mars in like 0.8 psia. It would take a wind of mach 1 to move that rock.

Edited February 21, 2014 by Will Carry