Update: A lot of people are emailing me saying that this squirrel was part of a NASA experiment to test how long it would live on the surface of Mars and I do believe this does sound like something they might do. Why would they not tell us about it? Because the squirrel would be expected to die eventually and that would get PETA to fight against them in a court of law. SCW
A friend emailed this in to me today (Original Photo on NASA Website…click here!) and its really amazing and strange. I guess thats why I love this one so much. Its a cute rodent on Mars. Note it's lighter color upper and lower eyelids, it's nose and cheek areas, its ear, its front leg and stomach. Looks similar to a squirrel camouflaged in the stones and sand by its colors. Hey, who doesn't love squirrels right? That doesn't look like a squirrel you say? Then have a look at the photo below of similar squirrel in the same position on Earth. This might have been the big historical announcement that NASA was suppose to make, however they decided life on Mars was a secret worth keeping since they don't want China or Russia to beat America to Mars. So they shut up about it and can take their time to Mars this way. The scientist jumped the gun and told the public about a major historical discovery on Mars…this must be what he was talking about. SCW
Full photo below, but in low resolution…go to source for full detail.
in the picture above it looks like thee could be another one just under it. with its back to us you can just see 2 ears sticking out slightly
ReplyDeleteThe strange thing is...if NASA delivered it...its eyes are open and it seems to be exploring not affected much by lack of oxygen. It seems to be sniffing the ground. Normal behaviour, but I wonder how long it lived and was it able to find some kind of food, they do have a great sense of smell and may find something.
Deletei seen that too , like it's back is too us , that is in a way so cool , maybe there is some oxygen on mars ..
Deleteu know i seen that too , like it has it's back to us , that would be cool if mars has a small amount of oxygen on it ..
DeleteScottCWaring, as soon as a rodent existed a pressurized aircraft and entered the Martian atmosphere, it's blood would begin boiling due to the low pressure of that atmosphere. That alone would kill it very quickly, but it would probably die after only a few attempts at breathing the toxic air long before the water in its blood evaporated.
DeleteI'd say it's chances of smelling anything before the lights go out are slim to none.
Because technology can have you sit in a chamber and equilize your pressure.. right? we don't REALLY know why it is like on mars, only what we have been told...
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DeleteCompare the Meerkat .com, Not same!
I've passed on this link to a number of media outlets. THIS HAS TO END NOW it's getting beyond a joke!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, it never was funny.
DeleteRodents in space? I guess NASA had included a passenger on Curiousity. Wonder where they stored the squerrel kibble?
ReplyDeleteLOL, true it would take some serious drugs to put this little guy into hibernation for the full trip, but knowing how long a living creature from earth could survive on Mars sound like an experiment NASA would do, but they would want to keep quiet about it otherwise PETA would destroy them in court.
DeleteThere is no way they would contaminate a planet with Earthly life forms deliberately. It would defeat the whole purpose of looking for life there and potentially do immense damage to any life that might be there.
DeleteSilteplait chante si ten as envie , aurais tu lamabiliter lamabiliter cordialement
ReplyDeleteAwesome !
ReplyDeleteIf you can find the same scene pictured at a different time, and show it has moved, then you have something.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be a bit skeptical, but there is so much you can do with images that it is rather hard to believe. It has to have a food source and some sort of burrow. Look for a hole or nest close by. Show me how they survive. If they are there, what preys on them is going to be bigger so why haven't we seen it?
DeleteFirst, if a squirrel like rodent is there, then there are others. I have shown 4-5 such animals on Mars, one moved in 4 NASA photos! So what do they feed on...other living things.
DeleteHaving an answer only makes you have more questions. O_o
I'm wondering what all these living things you keep saying are in these pictures are eating. Like this Marsquirrel. I guess he eats rocks and dirt...? As for drinking water.... don't see a lot of ponds in these pix being sent back.
ReplyDeleteone humanoïd's skull broken and one animal's skull on this picture. above rodent, under blue rock about humanoîd's skull and to all left picture above rodent about animal's skull (white colors near blue rocks). do you see them ?
ReplyDeleteI would interested to know why there are sharks teeth in the picture. What beach was this picture taken on?
ReplyDeleteThank you, people. There is a way Mother Nature duplicates people, places and things [on Earth and elsewhere]. An open mind is nice.A rock can look like any animal or person. Like a prior comment, "Let's see that at another time, PLEASE!" Then let us really pass judgement.
ReplyDeleteSpace may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement..
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ReplyDeleteMars atmosphere is way to thin to support life so im guessing its an optical illusion with so called statues & skulls.As for the animal its a possible photoshop job. They're is no food chain... no liquid water to with held life on Mars.
ReplyDelete3 things 1 can say about MARS,
(1) CO2: 95.32% - N2: 2.7% - Ar: 1.6% - O2: 0.13% - CO: 0.08% - H2O: 0.021% - NO: 0.01% - Ne: 0.00025% - HDO: 0.000085% - Kr: 0.00003% - Xe: 0.000008% (ATMOSPHERE)
(2) Who know's maybe Mars had an ancient civilization(s) and became to over crowded on the planet & consumed its natural resources? Or maybe they're technology killed off the planet.. who known's just like our own planet, A World War could have broke out?? Earth = 2 world wars so its possilbe to think so.
(3) Or maybe Mars never had life ? What if our sister planet was born with a disability - not been able to with stand life? People and animals are born with disabilities stopping them from doing things... which is sad to say ppl :( but i hpe u see my point about Mars.
From: Dublin - Ireland.
Very interesting and yes I thought of that, but you must understand it is impossible to photoshop a Curiosity photo and put it onto a NASA website, not to mention breaking the law, so the photo is 100% real. So I ask, why hasn't NASA ever commented about any of these findings?
DeleteAnd i guess you are 1000% positive about these so called 'facts" about Mars atmosphere compostion, since WHY on earth would NASA ever lie to us!
DeleteThe problem with Mars supporting life is that it is dead! It has no warm inner core or magnetic field, it used to but doesn't now, so life on Mars? a squirel?Not a chance! Sadly! I also don't think NASA would take one there then publish a photo of it! Its a lot of expense to satisfy a furry rodents wish for exotic holiday snaps!
DeleteHow did this site manage to get a hold of the picture?
ReplyDeleteLets just say there is a small % chance this was NASA's little experiment,the animal rights around the planet would flip out! If the rodent was transfered, how could it survive that long in the craft? It would suffer massive bone/muscle lost etc...
Unmanned probes from Earth can take from 7 months to two years to reach Mars, depending on when they are launched and how fast they can travel. The direct distance can vary from about 58 million kilometers to more than 400 million kilometers.
The distance is at least 36 million miles (58 million km).
So the minimum time would be:
At 70 MPH -- 56 years
At 500 MPH -- 8 years
At Mach 1 (0.34 km/sec) -- 5.4 years (5 years, 5 months)
At 40,000 MPH (fastest Voyager speed) -- 38 days
Manned Missions
The most commonly offered figure is "Six months there, and six months back". That is based on current (2013) technology, and there are currently no solid plans for a manned flight to Mars. By the time man does inevitably make a manned flight to Mars, there may be newer technologies in space travel that shorten the travel time.
The photo is from NASA…link is above. Click on it. How they got it to Mars…maybe drug induced hibernation, since they do sleep through winter, but could a squirrel be put into hibernation for 253 days and still come out of it? Thats the key question.
DeleteMy wife says it is a normal hamster, and hamsters are desert animals.
ReplyDeleteRegarding rodneyvs2000's comment about a second one looking back at it, she says that one looks more like a Chinese Hamster. These live in the deserts of China and Mongolia. Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_hamster
Also, it appears that red hue is added for all mars pictures. When you reduce the red content of the entire picture, the creature's color and the ground's color is brown, like here on earth.
My wife says it is a normal hamster. They are desert animals.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the above post by rodneyvs2000 "in the picture above it looks like thee could be another one just under it. with its back to us you can just see 2 ears sticking out slightly", she says that one looks like a Chinese Dwarf Hamster which lives in the deserts of Mongolia.
If you reduce the red content of the entire picture, the dirt and hamsters are brown, just like here on earth. In fact, it could BE a picture of earth.
At a slight distance under the hamster's nose, there is a rabbit looking straight toward the camera. It's one ear is directly vertical, and the other ear is at the two o'clock position. Download the original picture, then enlarge it and you will see it clearly. You will also see other interesting discoveries, such as at the top left of the picture where the black rectangular area is, as well as at the furthermost top right corner of the picture - where there are 2 perfectly 90 degree concrete structures placed perfectly aligned to each other. I RECOMMEND DOWNLOADING THIS PICTURE AND DATING IT - SINCE IT WILL SOON PROBABLY BE REMOVED OR ALTERED.
ReplyDeleteIf they haven't done this yet they should
ReplyDeleteThere is something more interesting in this picture above. At the left of the blueish/black rock below the "squirrel" you can see a perfect circle with a shadow. However in the fully detailed version it looks quite different to me. What do you think this?
ReplyDeleteJust to the right of the rodent looks like a Fox's head/skull.
ReplyDeleteIt's obviously a pandimensional being supervising the daily operations of the organic supercomputer they built at monumental expense with the Magratheans.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we are not spotting life on Mars, but on Earth. What if Curiosity mission went terribly wrong and crashed or (worst) lost in space?
ReplyDeleteWhat if Spirit and Opportunity ROVs did land on Mars?: Spirit allegedly not communicating anymore, but it's used to get photos labeled Curiosity.
Worst.
Curiosity photos are still from Mojave desert or any Earth desert and small animals are unable to be removed by stat-of-the art algorithms. At the end of the day "dust removal" pancam process is just making an Earth scene much martian alike.
Or both, Spirit photos overlapping Earth desert.
If it is something, cool. But we can't assume all creatures out there are like ours here. Maybe there is vegetation and NASA just isn't showing us those photos. Maybe there is some water they aren't showing us. Also, it may have gills or lungs like a fish and can absorbed the tiniest amounts of oxygen and survive. We really have no idea. It may have adapted to survive on that planet just like everything adapted here to survive...
ReplyDeleteWe can all agree to disagree. But the fact is. NASA isn't showing us all of Mars. There could be vegitation and bits of water... Also we can't compare our creatures to other creatures. This thing might have gill or lungs like a fish that can absorb the littlest amounts of oxygen or it converts other gases or chemicals into whatever it needs to do to live. It may not even breather. Like all animals adapted here on earth to survive, maybe this one adapted to survive on Mars...
ReplyDeleteThere were so many more interesting areas to land a camera (Cydonia region) perhaps we aren't on mars at all. Some nice desert region on earth. Note the dirt track upper right side of the scream.
ReplyDeleteThere were so many better regions to land a camera (Cydonia) perhaps they aren't on mars at all. Some nice desert region on earth. Note the dirt track upper right side as it pans in close.
ReplyDeleteWows great find.
ReplyDeleteJust wasting ur money to explore mars for living place. The picture? We need videos! Btw, Use the money to save the earth and peace. Sorry!
ReplyDeletemay be NASA discover on the Earth not on the Mars :p
ReplyDeleteThat Squirrel hasn't moved in a thousand years.
ReplyDeleteYes it's resting.
Resting?
Yes it is tuckered out after a prolonged squeak.
Mate that squirrel wouldn't squeak if you put 50,000 volts through it. It's a rock.
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
No it isn't.
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Excuse me this squirrel that you sold me earlier is not actually a squirrel it is a rock.
ReplyDeleteNo it isn't.
It is. When I got it home I had a close inspection and it is not a squirrel.
Yes it is.
Well why isn't it moving then?
Because it is tuckered out after a prolonged squeak.
A prolonged squeak? That squirrel would not squeak if you put 50,000 volts through it.
Ah got you! You just called it a squirrel.
What? It's not a squirrel it's a rock.
You just called it a Squirrel.
I didn't mean to.It is in fact a rock.
No it isn't.
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You people crack me up.
ReplyDeleteIf NASA did indeed send a squirrel to Mars, and it made the journey, and they released it on the surface, it would have died within minutes for lack of O2, if not from the cold and/or radiation, and NASA knows that, so they would have no motivation to do such a thing.
And what makes you think its alive in that photo? It could be long dead, if what you say actually happened. You don't thing some NASA egg head scientist has never thought about doing this?
DeleteIt's a fantastic discovery and needs to be announced to the whole World
ReplyDeleteTHE RODENTS HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM
This ain't nuts folke, they really are out there
It's a fantastic discovery and needs to be announced to the whole World
ReplyDeleteTHE RODENTS HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM
This ain't nuts folke, they really are out there
This is indeed a astounding discovery and needs world-wide media coverage, (which I think will be denied by our reptilian overlords)
ReplyDeleteWe Are Not Alone
THE RODENTS HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM
This is not Nuts, it obvious when you think about it!
Now we know where they go when the snow falls
maybe the pics were not of mars but maybe the desert, some say the moon pics were faked!
ReplyDeletemaybe the pics were not of mars but maybe the desert, some say the moon pics were faked!
ReplyDeleteLooks like the rock in front of the squirrel is a half buried scull.
ReplyDeleteA second rat is just to the right in front of the squirrel.
DeleteThe second rat to the lower right of the first one seems to be sniffing the bone? In front of him. The same bone looks chewed on the left hand side. The NASA pic also shows a hole in the desert floor towards the center of the pic. It seems the rats normally live underground. Perhaps water and some kind of mushrooms exist there to sustain them.
ReplyDeleteThe second rat is grey and smaller than the first one and faces the camera from behind what appears to be a bone. very few other sites mention this. The second rat also seems to not only have both eyes and ears showing, but ALSO seems to cast a shadow of his head including one ear to the right. Do rocks have ears?
DeleteYou guys could start a petition on change.org for NASA to investigate Mars rat further.
ReplyDeletewe have life forms on this planet, that we are only now discovering, that live in environments that we thought were not possible, so why can there not be life forms still living on mars?
ReplyDeleteHi Scott,
ReplyDeleteI found evidence that SOMETHING must have lived on Mars. Click this link to see evidence of animal droppings. Could it be from the Mars rat?
http://www.bubblews.com/news/648432-rat-lizard-droppings-found-on-mars-photo
Hi Scott,
ReplyDeleteLooking over new images of Mars just published I found evidence of what looks like animal droppings. Could it be from the Mars rat? I'm not kidding.
Click here:
http://www.bubblews.com/news/648432-rat-lizard-droppings-found-on-mars-photo
Hi Scott, Tom Rose picked out an interesting picture, but the "animal dropping" looks like a rounded flat rock sideways. (There are many in the picture.) The largest rock seems to have been scraped and possibly moved by the Curiosity rover. I would guess that the rocks and dirt in the picture has been molested by the rover way too much. There are some interesting holes and what looks like worm trails, but I suspect the rover might be responsible for that. I do think looking for droppings is a good idea though.
ReplyDeleteHi Scott,
ReplyDeleteThis picture just seems to grow on you. After more study, it looks like in picture #3 from top that the "bone" like rock to the lower left of the second rat looks like an elbow on the left hand side. Moreover, the slender rock behind it looks like an arm bone. And finally, the rocks just to the left of the "elbow" look like fingers on a hand.
Hi Scott,
ReplyDeleteI think we need an archeologist to look at the bones here. There seems to be fossils everywhere in this picture.