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3/16/2004: Layered Mars
I saved this one from APOD before the Mars rovers landed and got all the attention. This is a shot captured from the Mars Global Surveyor, which orbited Mars. Considered interesting about this shot are the layers that you see on the hills. The layers around the hills are described as wide enough to drive a truck around, assuming that you had a truck and that it was on Mars and that you could start it and that you could drive it. The whole shot is about 3 kilometers across.
Beestie Tuesday Mar 16 02:07 PM
That looks like some good hiking!
Provided your eyeballs don't come flying out of your head.
Elspode Tuesday Mar 16 04:11 PM
Re: 3/16/2004: Layered Mars
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Originally posted by Undertoad This is a shot captured from the Mars Global Surveyor, which orbited Mars. |
glatt Tuesday Mar 16 04:26 PM
Well of course the martians practiced terrace farming. They invented the irrigation canal too.
ndetroit Tuesday Mar 16 06:38 PM
| Mars is now the second most well-documented planet in the solar system. |
Dotster Tuesday Mar 16 06:50 PM
I don't believe this it's a hoax. That's a close up of a teenage boy's chin or a frog's back
Skunks Tuesday Mar 16 06:55 PM
The layer-things are cool, but what's all that black splotchy stuff?
Don't tell me-- this new planet has cancer already, doesn't it?
Nothing But Net Tuesday Mar 16 10:48 PM
I think I once saw a Madonna video that looked like this. Is MTV really 'Mars TV'?
It is a perfect way to avoid FCC sanctions.
Olikat Tuesday Mar 16 11:28 PM
What interests me most about this picture is how each consecutively smaller circle seems to be higher. Anyone have an idea of what would cause this phenomenon? Water? Pressure? little martians with bull dozers?
Elspode Wednesday Mar 17 12:05 AM
Erosion of layers of rock of differing composition?
blase Wednesday Mar 17 12:31 AM
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Originally posted by Elspode Erosion of layers of rock of differing composition? |
wolf Wednesday Mar 17 01:28 AM
Wind erosion and rockfall.
Mundofer Wednesday Mar 17 01:47 AM
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Originally posted by Skunks The layer-things are cool, but what's all that black splotchy stuff? |
Mars is civilized. They too have contamination!!!
Degrees Wednesday Mar 17 09:54 AM
Could have been massive amounts of water
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Originally posted by Olikat What interests me most about this picture is how each consecutively smaller circle seems to be higher. Anyone have an idea of what would cause this phenomenon? Water? Pressure? little martians with bull dozers? |
e unibus plurum Wednesday Mar 17 04:03 PM
obvious signs of intelligent life
http://www.pbase.com/image/18263110/large
wolf Friday Mar 19 12:28 PM
That really looks like someone just airbrushed out the Sphinx ...
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