Curiosity Finds Mars 'Teeming With UFOs': Do You Hope We Finds Signs of Life?

All I see - rocks.
Is there any measurements of the methane that can distinguish between different isotopologues?
One of the missions of this rover is to determine if methane prodused from Martian life or from geochemical process. (if there is life below the surface)

PS Missions of curiosity:

Biological

(1) Determine the nature and inventory of organic carbon compounds
(2) Investigate the chemical building blocks of life (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur)
(3) Identify features that may represent the effects of biological processes (biosignatures)

Geological and geochemical

(4) Investigate the chemical, isotopic, and mineralogical composition of the Martian surface and near-surface geological materials
(5) Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils

Planetary process

(6) Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) Martian atmospheric evolution processes
(7) Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide

Surface radiation

(8) Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic radiation, solar proton events and secondary neutrons
As part of its exploration, it also measured the radiation exposure in the interior of the spacecraft as it traveled to Mars, and it is continuing radiation measurements as it explores the surface of Mars. This data would be important for a future manned mission.

That's cool news (: But looks pretty fake...
As the article says, flying saucers are rather dead pixels in the rover's CDD Cameras, video filters turn dead pixels into larger bigger ones ( as an editor myself, I totally agree with it ) etc etc. The creature looks more like a rock to me lol - Why we see a face in it can be also because of the human tendency to always find shapes and patterns in an object.
So I'm not keeping up my hopes high, although I do believe in aliens and stuff - to prove it we obviously need tougher evidence. And besides, seeing the money spent on these things and the condition of financially challenged countries - I think it's not safe to start an expedition now.

Inkblot. ))

why not?

By my answer I meant Life on a technological level. After the Heavy Bombardment stopped, Mays have had oceans but it's magnetic field faded quickly & is not massive enough to keep water vapor, nitrogen or oxygen from escaping with the Solar Wind so any life that formed may have only evolved up to procaryotic cells at best.
As for the 'artifacts' on the images received, they're likely just 'noise'. I'm familiar with the 'Edge Enhancement' technique but that's only for emulsion film. On digital images, it's just 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' figments of the imagination much like the Vikings' 'Face on Mars' myth of the 70's.
With recent news of 'cell-like vesicles sans DNA' found in a 'Red Rain' in India recently, this may lend support to the Panspermia or Exogenesis hypothesis that complex organic compounds formed in comets that got close enough to the Sun (or other stars) to catalyze formation of them and then later impact on Mars, Earth & the Icy Jovian Moons and in thermal zones or open sunlight to evolve with what particular condition these bodies can provide.
If I can conjecture this scenario with only a Year's College in 1980, hopefully the engineers who designed Curiosity would consider these factors in mind for designing the bio-detection equipment aboard.
It may take a future probe (or even men) with excavating abilities before absolute proof for Life can be confirmed. I'm CERTAIN it's there.

I've been following the curiosity photos for some time, but they are getting more extraordinary every day. Noise simply cannot explain the items in these photos, and there are dozens more with great detail.

And after seeing this photos from Sol55
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I became convinced that the rover had failed during landing and was being faked by a rover here on earth, probably in the area where they tested nuclear weapons in the 50's.
there is too much debris that is completely human in origin.
Toothbrush, Golf clubs, and remnants of furniture.

I don't see anything, guess there's collective magical thinking running rampant.
Same story with the Voyager "face" 35 years ago.

I 'smell' a HOAX!!!!

Positive proof would be a great thing to find and I've watched footage many times of what's believed to be UFO's, even the astronauts that have participated in the past are insure of what it was they actually witnessed although they do seem sure that it could be nothing but intelligent life.

It would really be interesting, But I think that the money spent on Mars Exploration would be better spent here at home first fighting poverty and hunger, Take care of the people first play in space later

We've spent about $9 trillion in the last 40 years on the War on poverty, some estimates are $10 trillion. I think we need a new plan.

Wouldn't Hurt do you have one, but remember if you have a plan that will work, by the time the Politicians get done with it, it will be a useless piece of crap, like everything else they touch

I know of nothing that is a greater incentive to better one's self than hunger.

For those that *CAN'T* work to better themselves, there is plenty of help avalible, once the deadbeats are removed.

There will always be Hunger as long as those in control aren't hungry, and could care less about the rest of the population

There will always be poor.
However in the USA, there is very little actual *HUNGER*.
Welfare removes the incentive to improve one's situation, while making the poor less and less willing to *WORK* to change their situation, while growing ever complacent in their situation they will stay willing to vote Democrat.

"The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty"
-Thomas Jefferson

and just how can you shame the Shameless

Yes ...as long as they don't expect foreign aid from us.

Finding something is more interesting than finding nothing.

We have enough invasive species and exotic diseases already.

Hopefully not, earth politicians don't need any more options for war or conquest, they create enough problems for one planet.

Looks like they have some nice pictures of more rocks.

There may have been life there long ago.

If we can find water nearby, we might bring life back to the planet one day.

The ufo's are round and look more like moons though. We probably aren't the only intelligent life in the cosmos.

Go Home! And take your Dune Buggy with you...........

Maybe, it sure is hard to ignore the Budweiser empty six pack.

Yes, I think it would be most interesting to find that we're are NOT alone in the Galaxy..but I doubt it will really happen.

It looked like rocks that might of been thrown by a Bigfoot....

That makes perfect sense.

I believe in aliens there has to be life around this big never-ending galaxy there has to be something alive. If we do find it, we will probably try to connect our worlds somehow (I dunno how i'm not a genius!) and then there will be some major war so I am unsure

Why does there have to be life out in the universe? There is life after death. All you have to do is look at the place I used to work at. At quiting time the whole place came to life.

ROFL That made my day :)

meh.

Mars is fading..oh yeah, those other pictures of the "red planet" were doctored. Anyway, anyone see the coke can lying on the ground in that last clip?

I think that'd be weird and something bad would come out of it. And I've always felt like God would've said SOMETHING about life on other planets if there was. Just saying.

I have no idea what I think about this, none whatsoever. It is exciting the way things have been going lately. But we have so very many things going on "down here" on earth that I really don't spend much time thinking about outer space or other planets. So I'm glad there are people who devote their lives to it and then share their results with us.

Especially if it show we originated there; it will throw a wrench into both creation and evolution theories.

WOW.....you really have to a Banana-Peel Smoking Idiot to see a Martian when you're looking at a rock...

Banana Peel smoking? Wow, I haven't heard that in decades!