MARS SOUTH POLAR FOREST
& WATER EVIDENCE
Report #086
April 26, 2005
Joseph P. Skipper
J. P. Skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com
I've been sitting on evidence like this a long time because it isn't the most obvious in your face type and I thought, whether right or wrong, that back in the early days too many viewers inexperienced with off world evidence would not be able to recognize it for what it is. However, after several years of experience looking at evidence at this Web site and Mars evidence in general, I suspect that many more will now recognize it fairly readily.
The above first image from the official MGS MOC M10-00628 science data strip demonstrates a scene in the terrain well out from the South Polar Cap where a dark dense carpeting forest of vegetation growth of some kind has grown up to the top of this low elevation rounded mound. This is a distant view and the vegetation carpeting forest is too thick to provide a look at individual plants or trees, so don't look for that kind of detail.
The distant view and low resolution of the official image precludes any detailed examination of the dark mass and I suspect that is by intent. The sunlight reflecting off of that portion of the rise in the terrain in the dark background also tends to visually suggest the possibility of hard objects mixed in with this dark forest mass at that point. Maybe but the relatively normal file sizes for these images tells me that this is likely an illusion caused by the poor resolution and that this does not represent any significant geology (rocks) or artificial structure evidence. So we are almost certainly look at primarily a forest of light absorbing intermingling vegetation (trees) life biology of some kind here.
Please note the uniformly lumpy texture of the dark mass surface and how it aggressively follows and carpets the gently rolling terrain in this location. This is typical of dense wild growing forest where every square inch of sunlight space is increasingly occupied over a long period of time by aggressive competing vegetation with only the tops visible and no ground visible at all.
The light color highly reflective area on top of this low mound elevation providing a gap in the vegetation dark mass is probably a relatively shallow surface liquid lake that is too deep for the forest to grow into. Its surface however is covered over by layers of highly reflective grainy image tampering applications that washes out detail. This type of smooth surface image tampering is extremely prevalent in a great many such surface water sites on Mars. I suspect that the original now unseen scene was of a level clear bright reflective surface that would have quickly identified itself as relatively shallow water with islands and trees on them out in the center area. The tampering put an end to that visual as well as mostly but not completely obscuring the islands and trees.
The distancing and poor resolution tampering techniques prevent us from getting a close enough look to identify the vegetation itself but it could not destroy the dark area's bumpy surface pattern and texture so typical of dense forest canopy top surface and that is sufficient to adequately identify what we are looking at here. Likewise, the sharp irregular division line between the dark mass and light color area demonstrates that the dark mass is of a uniformly elevated general height typical of trees above the relatively flat level light color area helps identify this demarcation line as a typical shoreline.
I imagine that, from the secrecy point of view, this is the beauty and the curse of preprogrammed computer image tampering. It is super fast and far more thorough than a human could ever be trying to encompass so much science data in a relatively short space of time. The program maps to what ever is real in an image strip (at closer resolution than admitted to) and then lays down obscuring tampering applications relative on the back of that mapping, including general color hues. However, the very technology that is so great at doing this is also the process that trips it up in certain situations like this one.
Because it is working at much closer resolution than publicly admitted to, the program maps to the dark area and light color area separately and therefore treats them separately tampering wise and this is its flaw. This close mapping preserves the general color hues, the uniformly bumpy surface texture pattern of the forest tops, the natural irregular but sharply distinct shoreline, and the levelness and general color hue of the light color surface water area. Any normal size details are now hidden from view but not the overall colors, patterns or textures.
The above second image provides a bit closer but also a bit poorer resolution view. Because of the original poor resolution, it doesn't tells us too much more than the more distant view. However, what can be seen is that the dark area edge where it meets the light color highly reflective area is uniformly elevated above the light color level area. This would be typical of dense forest growth growing right up to the shoreline edge of a body of water that it can't grow out into.
For those who might think of it, it is remotely possible but not very likely that the light color area tampering may be blotting out something more artificial than natural. However, the grainy but smooth surface texture of the map type tampering in the light color area tells me that this application is mapping to a relatively smooth level surface typical of a body of water in a shallow terrain depression as opposed to elevated structures. Further, the irregular but distinct edge between the dark and light areas is much more typical of forest shoreline bordering on a natural body of water rather than on organized evidence like artificial structures.
The main thrust of this M10-00628 strip based evidence here is to emphasize the living biological forest growth reporting and not the speculation that the level light color area is a body of water. I only mention this to put this scene in a truer perspective and to counter the interpretive impact of the image tampering illusion covering up the water. Remember, the fact that the image tampering is there at all is a pretty clear indication that this is a surface water site simply because it required hiding.
Meanwhile, while we are discussing this particular official science data strip and water, for those interested in downloading and examining the original M10-00628 science data image to confirm and verify the vegetation forest life evidence presented here behind me, you should be aware that scrolling down near the bottom of the official image will reveal a mostly obscured river system in this same image. It isn't visually the best evidence in the world either because it has been impacted by image tampering and poor resolution, but it is there for those interested in taking a look.
For comparison purposes, the above above third split screen type image provides four separate sample views of Earth forests (not on Mars now) so thick and dense that they completely carpet the terrain they are on allowing not even a tiny peek at the ground below. I have changed the color in these scenes to sort of match that in the above Mars evidence to facilitate comparison rather getting distracted by the brilliant colors. The four views of forest top canopies at different closer focal distances, different angles, and differences in tree top species type provide just enough individual tree detail to demonstrate how differences in overall patterns and textures come about as compared with the preceding first and second image Mars evidence.
Note that trees in these settings are in aggressive competition with each other competing for sunlight to reach a maximum height that is very similar to all the rest of the different trees in these scenes. Any trees who cannot grow to this height, who aren't as quick growing as the rest, and who aren't aggressive enough to pry out a place for themselves in the sunlight are eventually shaded out and either die or live a stunted unhealthy life in the shade gloom below. Therefore, the characteristic of forest density filling every small sunlight gap in the canopy top cover is a must for successful survival as is the need to grow to this maximum height of the tallest trees. This competitive process of course favors the tallest and most aggressive growing trees and that in turn means that successful survival here leans in favor of natural selection limiting any wide variety in tree type and species.
One of the points I'm trying to make here is that these kind of forest tree canopies patterns and textures tend to be fairly level along the canopy top surfaces favoring certain trees. Further, this progressively becomes more and more the case the longer the forest as a whole is allowed to survive and grow undisturbed. So, over time and assuming continued environment stability, the same and/or similar species of trees tend to be more successful and steadily fill in the spaces over wide areas growing to the same height with the same fairly uniform tree top shape. For example, this process of natural selection favoring similarity is what has happened in the split screen upper left oblique angle view image and the upper right more straight down view image where the trees are very similar to each other. On the other hand, the tree canopy top surface in the lower left closer view image is more multilevel and ragged surfaced because a variety of different trees are still competing strongly there changing the visual pattern and texture.
In such environments, variations in the height of the tree top canopy is often very level on level terrain and only varies very much in height when the underlying terrain height varies and to the extent that it varies. Take for example the above split screen lower right image that is a much more distant shot from well above the cloud layer (small wispy clouds seen) of what was probably previously in the ancient past a lower than present level lowland with water drains in the ancient past carrying in sediment to eventually fill in the lowest areas forming an enormous flat low level sediment created delta that has now been engulfed by a carpeting forest of trees better adapted to ground more water saturated conditions. The result is a smooth seamless carpeting forest of same height trees with the only major break in it being the single winding drain system that is now having to go on past this filled in area, cutting a channel through it in the process, to seek lower level terrain beyond.
Of course, Mars is a somewhat different environment for vegetation survival than here on Earth. Further, this forest evidence would be extremely unlikely if we accept the official position that this planet is hard frozen, incredibly dry, has primarily a CO2 atmosphere, and is devoid of life including even most microbes in the soil. Obviously, this and other such evidence like it flies right in the face of that official position. This evidence record encourages you to decide for yourself based on evidence where the official position tries to make your decisions for you. That is the difference between us.
However, if this is the vegetation forest evidence it appears to be, the density and uniformity of the canopy top surface tells us that this is a long lived very stable and massive living forest system with all its implications and not to be confused with something new. The wide-angle image accompanying this narrow-angle image and many others like it all over the South Polar Region with so many dark light absorbing areas so typical of light absorbing vegetation as opposed to more light reflective terrain/geology bare of vegetation indicates that this is no doubt a massive oxygen pump into the atmosphere, that is if we assume vegetation forests similar to our own here on Earth. If that realization isn't pregnant with insight implications into true temperature and atmospheric conditions on Mars as well as the conditions for life as we know it, I don't know what is.
Finally, before moving on away from the forest evidence here, I would like to draw your attention to something. In the above third split screen four part image, please note carefully the look of the Earth forest vegetation in the upper right view. Then go to Part 3 of my Report #085 titled "Mars South Polar Biological Life: Part 3" scroll down and take a look at the next to last (9th) image there. You will see very strong visual similarities between the two scenes with all its obvious implications. You can bet that if the upper left Earth based scene had been a straight down view rather than its oblique angle, the same would be true for that as well.
On the other hand, very close by to the M10-00628 site is the above third image based on the M09-01354 official science strip where a surface water lake site is a little more identifiable but still the water surface is obscured by image tampering. The above third image is reduced in size to provide a more distant wider-angle view that also provides more perspective of the terrain this lake sits in.
Here again the water evidence has been subjected to poor resolution and the water surface itself covered over by image tampering. But, also here again, the flaw in the tampering did not cover the shore demarcation line or the fact that this evidence site is in a terrain depression. Unfortunately, the terrain surrounding it has in this case also been subjected to a variety of tampering treatments including inverting to try and not present the same visual forest evidence as in the very nearby M10-00628 image.
You see, the wide-angle distant context images that come with these two image strips demonstrate these two nearby discovery site locations to be in a wide spread very dark area typical of many huge areas in the South Polar Region. The wide-angle imaging is far too distant to see normal size evidence detail but, if we didn't already have our minds made up for us by the heavily promoted official view that Mars is a freezing cold dry dead world with a mostly CO2 atmosphere and hostile to life as we know it, we might actually use our own independent thought process and consider that this widespread dark area may represent extensive light absorbing vegetation growth and therefore a tremendous oxygen pump on Mars like our rain forests here on Earth.
To prevent such independent (oh the horror!) derived thoughts, we can't be exposed to narrow-angle closer views in image after image that presents the possibility of thick dense dark forest evidence as we see in the above M10-00628 reporting. So, the solution is to mix up the terrain views with respect to changing patterns, textures and color from image to image. That is what is happening here in this M09-01354 based evidence, the terrain view surrounding the lake is so damaged by tampering that it winds up just looking like nothing recognizable at all. Only the lake treated separately comes through as anything halfway recognizable.
It is the same basic general set of tactics used to obscure the seasonal water flooding evidence in the narrow-angle closer imaging at the edge of the South Polar Cap that I have previously reported on where changed patterns and textures are mixed in the evidence from image to image. There the tampering would have been more successful if the scale of the water flooding evidence had not been so huge and continental in is proportions that it could still be seen in the wide-angle distant imaging.
However, no such luck here with this more normal size terrain land surface forest life evidence. The forest evidence is too small on an individual object level and too dense, thick, intertwining, merging, carpeting and too distantly seen to reveal individual details. So all we get is a small peek at some lone overall forest patterns and texture as represented by the rare inadequately tampered with M10-00628 strip based evidence presented in the first part of this reporting.
The above fifth and last image demonstrates a closer view of the M09-01354 surface water site. Note that the lower right side of this depression appears to be strangely relatively straight as compared with the rest of the irregular shoreline. Note in the distant third image that this straight line extends on out beyond the depression into the surrounding terrain and the terrain textures and patterns on either side of this demarcation line are quite different than each other. That is primarily because this is where two different terrain tampering fields and tampering methodologies meet and join in this image.
Also, if you will look closely in the above fifth closer view image, you can see what appears to be a string of hard objects in a line bordering on the lower right shoreline of the depression. The degraded resolution is too poor to be conclusive but I suspect that these are a line of artificial geometric structures creating the more organized but uncharacteristic uniform straighter line that is so non typical of the rest of the irregular shore demarcation line. In fact, you can see where the tampering application on the lake surface crosses over and obscures a section of this line.
That the map type tampering violated the shoreline demarcation line by crossing over it and thereby its own programming in this way tells me that this was no doubt adjacent slightly larger artificial geometric structure evidence that became a greater priority to hide and thereby altering the programming. Once one begins to understand that the image tampering exists at all, it then becomes only a matter of logic and reason to determine how it works.
I sat on this water site evidence and others like it for years. While I did so and before my reporting here, a few others that I now do not remember discovered this particular site and reported on it but, as I remember, they failed to recognize or report on the image tampering that partially obscures it as well as its surrounding terrain. This type of evidence is typical of a great many other such surface water sites in the South Polar Region where one can see the recognizable well defined shoreline, the fact that this is clearly a depression, the flat level surface quality of what ever occupies the depression so typical of a liquid, and that it very much looks like a body of water (lake) except for the visual appearance of the water surface itself.
This is where evaluating such fairly familiar looking water site evidence encounters the image tampering factor and then one must proceed with interpretive caution. I am showing you this kind of evidence because this particular surface water site is typical of a huge number of such heavily tampered with sites all over Mars and particularly in the South Polar Region. I can confirm that we are looking at a liquid surface water site here but it must be realized that we are not looking at the water surface itself, only the smooth tampering application that maps to it and covers it. If it were not for the fact that the tampering application maps to individual features revealing the shoreline and depression as well as the flat level nature of the surface typical of a liquid, we would not be seeing even this much.
These interpretive false illusions are how it is with the Mars probe satellite science data as released for public scrutiny and this is how your tax dollars are spent on your welfare. Yelp, we want your money to enable us to do more planetary exploration but no need to actually share any real exploration truth with you of water or the life that it enables because we suspect it may upset you. In other words, how does it feel for the bulk of our population to be treated by those who are suppose to be serving our interest like herding dairy cows suitable only for producing milk/money for all this planetary exploration while the farmer/secrecy elite gets the real results and we out here that paid for it all get only ignorance.
Sounds just a tad one sided and misuse oriented to me. But, how about you? All I can say is, if we allow this kind of thing to continue so that we can all float along and don't have to be disturbed by some of the complexities and complications of life's and our larger environment's realities, then we as a people deserve what ever we get. Our own lack of concern and failure to take corrective action insures it.
DOCUMENTATION
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M10/M1000628.html: This link takes you to the official science data M10-00628 narrow-angle image that is the source of the vegetation forest evidence in the first part of this report. While there please also take note of the companion M10-00629 wide-angle context image showing the visuals of the dark light absorbing terrain this narrow-angle image evidence exists in.
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M09/M0901354.html: This link takes you to the official science data M09-01354 narrow-angle image that is the source of the surface water lake evidence in this latter part of this report that is also very close by the M10-00628 evidence site.
Joseph P. Skipper, Investigator
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