A Close Up And Stereo View of a Sol 014 Organism
This is an excellent view in 3D of this organism. This is a "cross-eyed" view due to its size. This picture has had no enhancements or processing other than stacking multiple frames to increase the image resolution.
Note the details, such as the peach cleft on the left side. It is outlined neatly in relief; a low ridge in a deliberate sweep of equal distance and geometry on each side. Also, see how there are very fine ribs inside the cleft? It almost looks like a lip (although it certainly is not).
There is also a faintly darker V feature- the surface is of different color or perhaps fine scale texture to provide this difference. That V reaches from the center into the upper left quadrant of the organism.
Another very interesting feature that is clearly not of mineral origin is the loops and lines of uniformly sized and space dots or warts. No known non-biological process can produce such markings. Also, you can just make out that there is a slight cleft which also appears outlined leading from the center and down.
This one is not eroded badly at all, and shows many features present on other samples. Clefts, slots, and rows of uniform dots are present on most of the spherules. Now, some people have said "but minerals are the simplest explanation- that this is alien and unlike things we have seen before."
To that claim I say this- being "alien" does not explain anything- you are attaching a label with no explanation- in fact, you are refusing to consider the simplest explanation. It is a fossil. Being "alien" does not exempt it from the laws of physics. Erosion is a random process and does not produce many tens of thousands of identical patterns on random rocks.
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enlarged view of the basic stacked image I used for more sophisticated
processing.
There are some not-so-easily-spotted items, like the circular patch just to the right and below of the center, and the faint groove on the lower right. |
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| With cosine and
differential processing, these details are a little easier to see
now. The circular features resolves into another one of those
ubiquitous orifices- "beaks" inset into the body of the fossil.
It also shows that the dots or warts are pretty evenly located over the surface, which is not what you would expect for erosion. In the case of erosion, you would expect the dots to wear away, not enhance. Also now, you can make out the cleft at the bottom edge. This is an interesting finding. Once I used further processing, those features popped right out. See the image below. |
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| This very odd
looking image is the result of combining only the differential and cosine
values without any of the original raw image data.
The result is that many new things are easy to see. The "orifice" has four petals and the cleft is faintly outlined, just like the big cleft on the left side of the organism. The other cleft on the lower right is more easily seen as well. |
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| ...and here it is, the lower half only, with all the details in sharp contrast. |  |