The Eggs of Mars

[williamsaunders]

Nodules can form naturally via mineralization or iron concretions. However, much in Jim's postings are very unusual looking. There is smoothing of some rocks, while others are jagged. I see suggestions of animal face designs in some of the fragments. It almost looks to me like statues that were blown into large and small pieces.

[starjim]

Sol 62 produces two Eggs already opened with contents missing. The curious thing that attracted me to this image was the small rock that is attached to the large boulder. MArtian GLUE?

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[starjim]

Broken open at one end, a rectangular object peeks out. There is another one I noted above where the rectangular object has a slot in it.

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[starjim]

The Eggs keep coming. I saw this when it first was published and didn't know what to make of it. Now I see it as a portion of an Egg shape that has been hollowed out. Only about 1/4 of it remains. The striking aspect of it is the 90 degree angles of the two edges. How is that done? Even if artificially done it is odd.

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[starjim]

Sol 22 half of an opened Egg sits all alone.

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[starjim]

This Egg is from Sol 610 and is one of the first I have found in Jezera. There were two earlier candidates but they just didn't have the hollowness like this one does. It is broken and the shell looks just like that of a broken egg. I also note that up to the current images, the Eggs are exclusive to this Sol grouping.

[starjim]

SOL 959 I realize I'm skipping around a little on the Sols, but I am working another project and was forced to start at the most current image and work backwards, while at the same time I'm in the middle of the range of Sols working forward. The important thing is to find all the eggs I can....

[starjim]

This is Sol 955 Neville cited a petrified log that lies just below the image edge where my citation is on the left. A portion is just visible. This site has a lot of curved boulders and sections of ruins. There is a column to the left of this area. Just not showing it here. OF interest here is the two egg shells on the right side. One is standing up and empty. The other is lying down and has an unusual object rising from its center. It looks like a dish antenna. I also point to an eyeball. I did crop this out and rotated it, and it looked a little bit more like a piece of a statue that had been blown apart.

[starjim]

Sol 955 This one has three potential Egg. The foreground shows a large egg, split open with cylindrical objects inside. The middle one has a part of the shell sticking up in the front of the camera and the Third one is broken in half and the one side is beginning to erode from the inside out.

[starjim]

This current area of Sol 955 has many curved rocks. Neville found a fossilized tree trunk nearby as well. This image has a couple of Egg or elongated shapes that have clearly eroded to the point of revealing the hollow interior. (Hollow rock was mentioned by Joe White ). The rocks themselves are pretty consistent as to their type as well. I have found a few that turned up in the early days of Perseverance, but most of these Eggs, or Hollow rocks have popped up more recently. The most current ones seem to be empty, except for the ones that have eroded to the point of bowl shapes, they show us an object inside.

[George J. Haas]

Jim, could you please provide links to - Empty Egg (sol 22) and Egg, note the opening on the left bottom (sol 610).

GJH

[starjim]

As a matter of course I will provide the image information on the image itself. I don't provide links because NASA has a habit of updating their sites without any consideration of the links. When I ran my websites and BB's I had massive amounts of useless information due to the way NASA handled their websites. You can always find the image using the Sol.

[starjim]

More on the eggs. I point at three objects. The best thing for the observer to do is click on the image and enlarge it in the viewer. #1 is half of an egg. The outside of the 'shell' is serrated and has three distinct sharp edges sticking up, there is also a partial covering on the egg, there isn't anything visible inside due to the shadows. #2 is an egg that has totally broken open and apart. pieces have stayed together, but most of it is gone. #3 is an example of rock that has covered another rock below it. Was the top portion once liquid lava of maybe sediments that are laying on the other rock? #1 shows a similar coating.

[George J. Haas]

Here is an open egg found by Rami





GJH

[starjim]

I always like when I find examples here on Earth of the things I see on Mars. A show on YouTube by Bright Side Mystery looked at oddities here on Earth in a 2+ hour presentation. While I've seen and presented previously other round object made on Earth I didn't know about this one in China. The Gandeng Mountain is located in the Guizhou Province and the eggs actually are exuded from the mountain side about every 30 years. Google Stone Eggs to find numerous articles about these eggs.
My point here is that these stone eggs are similar to the Eggs on Mars. They are organic material, encapsulated by concretions.
I had thought that the Eggs on Mars could be concretions occurring naturally from limestone etc. but since we are also dealing with volcanic activity as well as flooding, they could be objects wrapped in lava as well.
Either way there are valid examples of the eggs to be seen here on Earth and valid reasons for their existence on Mars.
I include a few images of the Earth Eggs.

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