Bio Station Alpha

[woodchip]

Seems someone used Google Mars and discovered a interesting anomaly. Scroll down link for video. Seems anyone can locate it using the co-ordinates so chance for hoax is reduced. Anyway comment away :

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/ ... e-on-mars/

[vision]

It's been determined to be an artifact caused by a cosmic ray. Looks neat though.

[Foil]

People who scour image banks are bound to find weird-looking anomalies.

Example: WTF is that?!

Google Maps link - "See for yourself!"

Looks wild, huh? No photoshop here. Turns out it's something quite real!!

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Click the arrow to move back to west and see the exact same thing on every image 'til you get to a set of trees (where the branch you're seeing got stuck on the camera).

[Krom]

Ya, was gonna say "that's a tree branch".

Still amusing "THE ALIENS ARE HERE!"

[Duper]

something like this was posted about a year ago.

If it's not shopped (and the distortion on each end makes it look that way), I'd say it part of a tree branch twig.

the google camera has some "natural" distortion in that area as it's a fisheye lens. If you go back on the street or forward, that distortion is still visible when the anomaly is not. It's possible that the the vertical part of the image is taken by a separate camera that snaps an image every couple of minutes rather than every few seconds.

This looks an awful lot like a spruce branch close up near where the needles grow.

JMT.

[Lothar]

Recall that google maps images are composites taken by several cameras on top of a vehicle, and then spliced together. If a piece of debris happens to be in front of one of the cameras, you'll get a visual anomaly that may appear to be in the sky or otherwise far off. Like, for example, the twig pictured above.

[Isaac]

It could be a soft spot between our worlds. I must take this jpg to my lab for analysis. Someone call Spock.

[woodchip]

Or it could actually be a 700m long building....

[Avder]

Remember that Russian Missile kerfuffle that went down over Scandinavia a year or two ago? That awesome spiral was my avatar at another forum I used to frequent. It just looked cool.