Are There Shells on Mars? Part Two

Playing with Channels and Color - Light and Shadow
Some Lousy Pictures of Earth Shells Compared to Lousy Pictures of Mars
(sorry, pictures of blue Mars rocks are lousy.)

An Earth mussel shell, a conch and a clam type shell, photographed with a Polaroid camera, in some sand and bad light. The images are not coming from millions of miles away, but they will do for comparison. One might have to look twice at these pictures to recognize what they are.

Red,Green and Blue Channels of Earth Shell

Close up of an Earth shell, colored and split into the red, green and blue channels. I fooled around with the tonal balance, reduced noise, and maybe did a couple other things, in an effort to make the image of the shell even more vague - make the shell go away, so to speak.

Same Image - Inverted

A Word About Orientation

I
purposely reversed the image of the Earth shell, purely for visual comparison to the shape (and shades) of the Mars "shell". And I am hard-pressed to find an Earth shell with the open end oriented like the one that seems to be in the Mars image. If you include that part of the image that looks like it could be connected to the "shell" but is partially buried in sand, the Mars "shell" appears to be reversed. Can this be possible?
On
Earth low pressure storms spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This has to do with the Earth's rotation and something called the Coriolis force, the apparent force acting on moving objects, such as tornados or oceanic and atmospheric currents. This is best seen on a large scale, reaching a maxiimum value at the poles and zero at the equator. But in controlled situations this effect can be demonstrated in fluid going down a drain.
Do
meteorological or geomagnetic conditions on another planet cause things to behave differently than they do on Earth? Surely all the forces on a particular planet would have a relationship and respond accordingly. Would they effect the spiral growth of a mollusk shell?

Splitting Mars

3D Analaglyphs
First they are there, and then they are not.
My attempts at making 3D images

The Shell Place - Light Shell - Dark Shell
Another Look

What is This?

...Oh, well...

Making the Shells Go Away

Or did they?

Shell or no shell? It still nags me.

OK
. Maybe it is not a shell. Maybe it is just an ordinary rock. Most likely its an ordinary rock. Or an extraordinary ordinary rock. What else could it be?
If
one takes a pencil or computer graphic program and draws lines around the various colors and shapes on the above image, one can come up with all sorts of things. There won't be too many images like that here. The reader can do that if he or she wishes. Imagination is a weird and wonderful thing. It is what got us into space in the first place.



Two versions of drawing lines on light and shadows.

Sometimes
I think this shape has a vague resemblence to an old bleached and weather-worn bone. Could it be a bone? A vertabra? The latest scientific model is that Mars very likely had life - small life, nano-life; and that very early in Mars' history some catastrophic event brought an end to that life. This is only one idea/theory - narrow and kind of arrogant. After all, on Earth there have been many extinctions. Why couldn't there have been a few on Mars as well? Which brings up the notion that possibly the next catastrophic event - from within or without - to hit Earth may be the one that makes Earth exactly like Mars is now - cold, red and seemingly lifeless.


Maybe this rock belonged to one of these guys.

Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus
We're still in the water with these creatures



Or maybe one of these guys!


Now that would really knock the wind out of some some old paradigns.
But I am getting carried away...


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