You guys are a riot. "Maybe the picture was from earth and accidentally got in the wrong file." "NASA wouldn't make a mistake like that."
News flash: ALL the pictures were taken on earth. There is a reason they've gone out of their way to grind away anything remotely lifelike. There could be a mini-mall in the background and you guys would come up with a "rational" reason why it would be in the photo.
How can you compare this to a mini mall? Troll harder please.
1.) NASA makes mistakes, and people have died due to that, anyone who argues otherwise is just wrong. That being said, not every single mistake is the same as another in terms of prevention and magnitude, to pretend otherwise again is just wrong.
2.) I personally dont think its a log I have seen rock formations just like that on earth caused my errosion, which also takes place on mars.
3.) I like how people then come out and say that the wrong folder either would not have happened, or that NASA would not have defended it, they would have just admited their mistake. Tom said that it was possible that it somehow slipped into the wrong folder, and no one said a thing from the other bench, but one mention that it could have been a mistake out of my keyboard, and suddenly its unreasonable. look im just saying that going from "hey that might be a log" to "NASA never went to mars" is a giant leap, especially since its just a photo.