Say What You See

Some pictures have appeared in the media lately from the Mars mission. They’ve been described by some as resembling dragon bones.

As awesome as that would be, that’s not what I see in the images. To me, they look like poles sticking out of the rock, much like rebar protruding from unfinished concrete blocks. They cast long shadows along the stone.

It’s hard to determine the size of them, or their true shape from these images, but I find that the explanation given, that these are merely mineral deposits that have been revealed by the erosion of the much softer stone, to be a little weak.

Erosion on Mars is paltry by Earth standards, and even though the surface of Mars is billions of years older than Earth, the explanation doesn’t ring true. It’s an unsubstantiated assertion. We don’t know the age or erosion rates of this rock, or what the supposed mineral could be.

That’s not to say that I think this really is rebar in cement, just that it’s what it looks like to me.

Another interesting detail in the image is the presence of the small protruding nubs, which to me look a lot like the ones found on ancient megalithic stones.

These nubs are not understood but it seems reasonable to assume that they probably served some purpose in the construction of these sites.

Again, not suggesting that this is what it is, but this site on Mars is definitely worthy of a second look.