Comments on: Weird Beasts: Life on Mars? by Chris Perridas http://www.darkrecesses.com/2010/06/weird-beasts-life-on-mars-by-chris-perridas/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cambias http://www.darkrecesses.com/2010/06/weird-beasts-life-on-mars-by-chris-perridas/comment-page-1/#comment-3156 Cambias Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:37:04 +0000 http://www.darkrecesses.com/?p=2084#comment-3156 What makes them look so extraordinary is the illusion of movement -- but note that the time frame is often over several hours. Take a picture of grains of sand in your yard, leave the camera set up in exactly the same place, take more frames after an hour or so, and the sand will move around, too. Mars has ground movements, wind, changes in temperature, etc. It's not a static environment so it's hardly surprising dust grains and little rocks don't move around. That being said, the 7-minute mark things are startlingly like some kind of little beetles. What makes them look so extraordinary is the illusion of movement — but note that the time frame is often over several hours. Take a picture of grains of sand in your yard, leave the camera set up in exactly the same place, take more frames after an hour or so, and the sand will move around, too. Mars has ground movements, wind, changes in temperature, etc. It’s not a static environment so it’s hardly surprising dust grains and little rocks don’t move around.

That being said, the 7-minute mark things are startlingly like some kind of little beetles.

]]> By: Lee Thompson http://www.darkrecesses.com/2010/06/weird-beasts-life-on-mars-by-chris-perridas/comment-page-1/#comment-2907 Lee Thompson Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:15:59 +0000 http://www.darkrecesses.com/?p=2084#comment-2907 Neat stuff! Neat stuff!

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