8/28/2004: Mars forms

Undertoad • Aug 28, 2004 11:53 am
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This one's tricky - it really looks like a macro shot of some sort, but it's really from orbit, from the Mars Global Surveyor a while back. And these are sand dunes, not snowy peaks.

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busterb • Aug 28, 2004 12:49 pm
Well to me, it looks like a WFT
Nothing But Net • Aug 28, 2004 6:30 pm
Well to me, it looks like my ice tray.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 28, 2004 6:48 pm
The link shows some really bizarre shaped sand dunes. Holy cow, dunes that look like pacman!?!? :eek:
Trilby • Aug 28, 2004 7:31 pm
Kind of looks like a large colon, cut lengthwise and flattened out. Kind of.
Elspode • Aug 28, 2004 11:47 pm
I always wondered what it looked like when a dune blew into a meteor crater. Now I know.
Cyber Wolf • Aug 29, 2004 2:01 pm
Looks like a fine cloth shirt in bad need of a hot iron.