Rock collections as possible art

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This thread is for posting images of collections of rocks - seen by the rovers - which viewed together from an overhead view, create a possible artwork.

The one below is a decorative helmeted head from spirit navcam sol 2175.

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit_n2175.html

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/2175/2N319449738EFFB27MP0703R0M1.JPG

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This is a link to the photobucket album where I am uploading these:

s295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/marsrocksmars/formsonground/

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This one I call "Harry's lion" - discovered by Harry of secret planets, and posted originally on the Alien Anomalies board. It is from Spirit sol 464:

marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/464/2P167556924EFFA9HEP2280L7M1.JPG

The balancing stone thread on Alien Anomalies forum is here:

www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=47797&p=3&topicID=30873463

and revisited on other subject matter (tampering) here:

www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=47797&p=3&topicID=35064037

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This one is like a pharaoh head with integrated art (or "polymorphic images") - sol 620-622. It is from the Everest panorama and is located in the area in the lower right of the panorama. It is a dark rocky formation on the edge of a hillside.

marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_instrument/everest.html





An example of one of the integrated images within the pharoah head:

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Sol 624 shows a closer look at some of the details within and close by to the pharaoh formation:

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This one is in the freak show thread, but it really belongs here. This rock arrangment is turned 90 degrees clockwise - the animation flashes between spirit sol 91, 93, and 97:

Half man, half bird - like Quetzalcoatl - depending on how the sun lights it: