Image from Opportunity's Panoramic camera on sol 2029. Credit: NASA/JPL, colorized and annoted by Stu Atkinson
Oh no! Hopefully the same folks who went nuts over the Bigfoot on Mars don't see this one! Could there really be a dragon on Mars? Relax, its just a shadow from Opportunity's camera mast, distorted by the unusual and bumpy fusion crust surface of the Shelter Island meteorite that the Mars rover has been studying the past few days. But it seems rather fitting: "Here Be Dragons" is a phrase used to denote unexplored territories, and that is certainly where Oppy and Spirit are in their explorations of Mars.
Thanks to Stu Atkinson for the colorized version of this rover image.
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