Mars Rover image worth second/third looks...

Very nice. That's Victoria Crater, right?

Is this going to turn into another one of your conspiracy theory threads that Mars is /has been inhabited and NASA is covering it up, gunga?

It's to NASA's credit that they haven't put the kibosh on all of these images. This is less of a conspiracy than a case of being caught in a paradigm mind **** of sorts. As I hear it NASA and the JPL are about evenly divided on Mars issues with about half of them willing to believe their eyes and the other half not wanting to hear about it. The problem is that given the received version of a history for our solar system, there is no way to picture Mars ever having been habitable; it would always have been too far from the sun, too cold, and too small to hold an atmosphere via gravity. You'd have to trash the entire picture we have of a history of our solar system and go back to the drawing board altogether and about half of them don't want to hear about it.

So, what is the thing in the middle of the picture? And is that a piece of slate/rock, or an old board?

Somebody looking at that picture and having been told it was a scene from a remote area on our own planet would assume he was seeing remains of walls and/or foundation slabs of buildings and a large rectangular wooden beam of some sort.

I don't see walls or foundations - just rocks. Ever visit the Sierra Nevada?

The stone right next to the wooden beam is perfectly flat and has a perfect 90 degree corner angle. What are the odds....

It's obviously a piece of Noah's Ark. There must be a wormhole on Mt. Ararat that leads directly to Mars. This would explain the flooding on Mars as well. Atlantis probably got sucked in through the wormhole as well and that's why those stone blocks are there.

Maybe the eminent scientists at the Discovery Institute will mount an expedition to Mars to confirm all this. On the other hand, who needs confirmation.