Now, I know you're just posting an interesting pic, but
- some numbskulls take this sort of thing seriously, so here's how it isn't really a bootprint.
The wheels of the Opportunity Rover are ten inches wide. Compare the wheel prints to your pic's faint artefact.
Your pic's "boot print" is, by a rough estimate, only about half that size in length (a very small shoe), and a very faint impression.
The Rover - adjusting for Martian gravity - weighs about 140lb: around the weight of a slim adult on Earth. It spreads that weight over six wheels, and makes obvious, thick, clear tracks in the dust.
If a person wearing boots stood on the same surface, we'd see a much deeper, more defined, larger impression.
Me, I can't see anything more than a vaguely lozenge-shaped patch of dust among many others in a vast panorama.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 23:04,
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but dear god man if you are going explode my findings
with such clear and concise logic at least include some marsh gas or diffraction of light references as well
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 23:07,
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10 inches APART
not 10 inches wide
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Mon 9 Jul 2012, 1:43,
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Always about the girth with you
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 8:22,
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