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ArMaP
reply to post by wmd_2008
I remember that one, it's from an old thread, this one.
The photo is PSP_008427_1380.
wildespace
reply to post by Arken
Considering the image was shot vertically, top-down, no matter how you rotate it doesn't affect the fact that you're looking at small geological features created by wind erosion and covered with seasonal CO2 frost. www.uahirise.org...
RGB image, approximating the true colours: hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu...
Arken
Roughly 15 Km x 5 Km (70 Km squared) is a "small" geological features?
ArMaP
Arken
Roughly 15 Km x 5 Km (70 Km squared) is a "small" geological features?
Area covered by the whole photo: 15 km x 5 km = 75 km²
Area covered by the colour part of the photo: 15 km x 1 km = 15 km²
Edit: each one of those geometric looking features (the bigger ones) is something like 30 m x 50 m.edit on 16/4/2014 by ArMaP because: (no reason given)
Arken
Roughly 15 Km x 5 Km (70 Km squared) is a "small" geological features?
Xeven
Nasal would never land a rover in a place like that as they might find past life there. Instead they only land in asteroid craters where everything has been obliterated.
Arken
Exactly Armap. And tha is only a tiny part of the whole area not covered by MRO.
ArMaP
Arken
Exactly Armap. And tha is only a tiny part of the whole area not covered by MRO.
That's the problem with high resolution photos, the higher the resolution the more photos are needed to cover the same area.