Mick West

Sure, but are the US military going to risk their top-secret craft being concealed by the weather? Fly it less than a mile from a busy road and hope the mist does not lift?

They persist too long to be Starlink. And the red color looks more like lanterns. The witness seems to think it's not aircraft, but I don't think you can rule that out. I need to make some tutorials.

I posted some on X Source: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1901490101009748364

Here's the location of Sol 2692; I'd hoped we could get scale from it, but it's too low resolution to match the Panorama with any confidence. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/

Here's a better link to that: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.2771566,-105.5192686,869a,35y,18.86h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw== Vegetation seems like a good match

the bridge in the trailer may be this one that is very close to the Mile High range. I haven't yet been able to get a name for it or a ground level photo. The arrangement of the dirt tracks seems to fit. https://maps.app.goo.gl/6pfca2pW2dFJNkM29

just other shots to document and get off my computer sol 2693 left cam https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/02693/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_636566831EDR_F0790294NCAM00354M_.JPG sol 2694...

This view makes me think that it is part of an outcropping from the formation behind it and the shadow below does belong to the pill-shaped rock.

ok the right cam is even better https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/786828/?site=msl this link is only 1024x1024 i dont know how to find a bigger version.

Yeah I think there’s two different shadows there that just line up, giving an illusion.

I am thinking it may be a concretion (hard mineral deposit) that is almost completely eroded from the surrounding rock and is overhanging the ground. Concretions are often round or oval shaped here on Earth.

or it's like this

It appears in a few images, as do other similar rocks https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=2692&end_sol=2692...

For legal reasons you can't post an entire paper unless it's open source. Post relevant quotes.

Iridium 5 is a known tumbling satellite: https://catchtheiridium.com/gallery/?contest=photo-detail&photo_id=1745 The attached TLE file includes only Starlink and Iridium 5 to remove some of the other non-illuminated satellites from the...