Ok, maybe it’s not from Noah’s Ark. And sure, it’s probably not even wood. But you can check out the full picture from NASA’s site here and make up your own mind.




  1. gquaglia says:

    Imagine if it really was wood.

  2. magnumpc says:

    Clearly, the non-union Martian construction crew was sloppy in their clean-up before they left for Alpha Centauri.

  3. Buzz says:

    Wait till they find the rest of the fence.

  4. bobbo says:

    Imagine if it really was marshmallows.

  5. Les says:

    If it really was wood, everyone at NASA would have wood.

  6. Buzz says:

    I like how many sites have nominated this image to be “secret” and “previously unreleased.” Actually, it has been on the NASA site since it was shot on May 24, 2004.

    http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040524a/site_B115_navcam_180_cyp_A-B118R1.jpg

    When viewed in 3D (got glasses?) it looks rather like a twisted strand of black lava, snapped at the nearer end. I’d bet that if it were sitting on your coffee table, nobody would ever mistake it for wood.

  7. dm says:

    Maybe it’s a piece of Santa’s sled from when he conquered the Martians.

  8. sargasso says:

    There are more of them, in the big photo, near the crater rim. Looks like debris from a ship wreck.

  9. Paddy-O says:

    Looks like the other rocks around it, only edge on.

  10. The DON says:

    I am more interested in what a campfire is doing there. Look above the ‘wood’ in the distance.

  11. Buzz says:

    Odd that nobody used this as proof of “plankton” on Mars.

    Puns aside, it argues strongly for a vital Martian lumber industry. But from the look of it, they’ve done some serious clear-cutting. Now there is no more life on Mars.

    Coincidence? I think not.

  12. Special Ed says:

    #10 – They are burning the wood. This is shit NASA doesn’t want you to know about.

  13. chuck says:

    Clearly, the prop department at NASA, who faked the moon landings, and faked these Mars probe pictures, have screwed up.

  14. hhopper says:

    It’s amazing how your brain insists that you know what you’re seeing. It does it’s best to make something out of nothing.

  15. No Brainer says:

    So what does NASA say about it. I couldn’t find anything. It can’t be wood.

  16. Hugh Ripper says:

    This item in question is clearly a Cadbury flake (do you have those in the USA?), throwing into doubt the claim that women are from Venus.

  17. bill says:

    So how about rolling over there and taking a close look? That is the rover thingie taking the picture right?

    It’s interesting to think about! LIke finding a bunch of aliens trash dumped out on the ground…

  18. jescott418 says:

    To play devils advocate here. What if it is wood? Then the question is where did it come from? There is no trees on Mars, at least not recently.
    Then of course the real questions come up in the back of all god fearing people. Is what we have been taught and told for hundreds of years become questioned? I myself begin to wonder as I watched some interesting facts come to light which question how things were created.
    Finding something simple as wood on Mars brings into question so much about even our small solar system. It will be interesting how much technology will unearth that maybe we would rather not know about?
    Think about it?

  19. Ah_Yea says:

    Now I’m wondering where the rest of Noah’s ark went to.

  20. Ah_Yea says:

    Taking a good look at that picture, I’ve determined Mars isn’t a very fun place to be. Not even to visit.

  21. Space Cowboy says:

    It’s wood, I just put a nail in it.

  22. oddalmighty says:

    It’s the horizontal piece of a crucifix. You
    can see the nail holes. God! Don’t they teach
    you youngsters anything in school these days!

  23. dude im with the guy above asking about the fire in the background. im doubtful to say this is even a real photo, simply because it should be impossible to have fire on mars, right? considering there’s no oxygen and all.. so what the hel is that fire thing doing there?

  24. FRAGaLOT says:

    that’s no fire it looks like a smudge or a whole in the film or paper, or whatever it was printed on or something.

  25. Glenn E. says:

    Interesting that SN mentioned Noah’s Ark. The same topic came up over Thanksgiving dinner, because my old man had a story to tell about seeing oyster shells in the Rocky Mountains. Of course, that was evidence of the great flood. But then he never got past the sixth grade, before the depression hit. So he didn’t know about how plate tectonics most likely formed those mountain ranges. And raised the land from below sea level, a long time ago. This has my wondering if this coming economic depression could lead to a whole new generation of under-schooled, religious fundies? Who know nothing about the world, but what their bibles tell them. God help us.

  26. Peter says:

    Clearly a piece of Noah’s ark.

    The crater must be the impact crater created when the ark crashed, and this piece of wood was thrown clear. It would have fossilized after all these years, so even if the analysis shows it’s rock, that’s just further evidence that I’m right.

  27. Viewing Logs Under The Microscope On Mars says:

    “It’s amazing how your brain insists that you know what you’re seeing. It does it’s best to make something out of nothing”.

    Scientists have this same problem when they look at things under the microscope. It’s called “ARKaic” methods of interpretating raw unprotected data.

  28. Paddy-O says:

    # 24 Grateful Nerd said, “Debunked…
    http://i35.tinypic.com/2ls8wuw.jpg

    As I said.

  29. amodedoma says:

    They must be slipping, normally they got people airbrushing all those things that the public may misinterpret. Like all those alien bases on the dark side of the moon.
    Mars has some wicked winds, object in the photo is probably just stratified rock that eroded to that shape. The bright object above it could be the opportunity rover, note the tracks head in that general direction.
    Mars gives me wood, and because of that it’s frustrating to see how no ones interested unless you start talking about earthlike-life there.


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