3/16/2004: Layered Mars

Undertoad · 03-16-2004, 12:49 PM

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 · 03-16-2004, 01:07 PM

That looks like some good hiking!

Provided your eyeballs don't come flying out of your head.

Elspode · 03-16-2004, 03:11 PM

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Originally posted by Undertoad
This is a shot captured from the Mars Global Surveyor, which orbited Mars.

...and is still orbiting Mars, taking more and more of the best photos of Mars ever seen. Mars is now the second most well-documented planet in the solar system.

glatt · 03-16-2004, 03:26 PM

Well of course the martians practiced terrace farming. They invented the irrigation canal too.

ndetroit · 03-16-2004, 05:38 PM

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Mars is now the second most well-documented planet in the solar system.

what used to be #2 ?

Dotster · 03-16-2004, 05:50 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 · 03-16-2004, 05:55 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 · 03-16-2004, 09:48 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 · 03-16-2004, 10:28 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 · 03-16-2004, 11:05 PM

Erosion of layers of rock of differing composition?

blase · 03-16-2004, 11:31 PM

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Originally posted by Elspode
Erosion of layers of rock of differing composition?

Martian sandstone.

wolf · 03-17-2004, 12:28 AM

Wind erosion and rockfall.

Mundofer · 03-17-2004, 12:47 AM

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Originally posted by Skunks
The layer-things are cool, but what's all that black splotchy stuff?

I think they're oil spills from the Exon Valdez or the Prestige.

Mars is civilized. They too have contamination!!!

Degrees · 03-17-2004, 08:54 AM

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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?

Where I live, we don't have lakes, per se, but resevoirs where a valley is dammed up, and the water is let out periodically for irrigation. The walls of the resevoir get ridges like that when the water sits for a while (the waves lap at the shore, eating it away) and then they let out water, and the water level drops. Once they stop letting out water, it starts eating away at the shore again. The longer the water sits at a level, the larger the 'cliff' becomes.

e unibus plurum · 03-17-2004, 03:03 PM

obvious signs of intelligent life
http://www.pbase.com/image/18263110/large

03-16-2004, 12:49 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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.

03-16-2004, 11:05 PM	#10
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Erosion of layers of rock of differing composition? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Wind erosion and rockfall. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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e unibus plurum garbage in, refuse out Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 98	obvious signs of intelligent life http://www.pbase.com/image/18263110/large __________________ //VTR.FT10F001 DD DATA

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Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	That looks like some good hiking! Provided your eyeballs don't come flying out of your head. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

03-16-2004, 03:26 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well of course the martians practiced terrace farming. They invented the irrigation canal too.

03-16-2004, 05:50 PM	#6
Dotster Complex Simpleton Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK Posts: 18	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

03-16-2004, 05:55 PM	#7
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	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?

03-16-2004, 09:48 PM	#8
Nothing But Net Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 1,481	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.

03-16-2004, 10:28 PM	#9
Olikat Fellow-Commoner Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 10	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?

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