posted on Jan, 9 2017 @ 06:51 AM
Here's a couple more, this time with proper red/green/blue filters:
Looks like ordinary sand to me, perhaps with some clay-like minerals.
Comparison Image Overlay
I did a comparison myself of the above images (uploaded to imgur above, as having problems with ATS uploads at the moment)
And found that they don't appear to be the RAW images you linked to from the news article. Infact they seem to be a competley different position. RAW
image is the main image with wild-space's image overlayed and rotated and scaled into position to pixel match (as best as possible) the correct
location.
This is what I found
Blue: the colour-depth is higher in the image Wildspace provided as shown by the blow-out from the Raw which indicates less colour-depth. And
if you know anything about photography you will know you can't get more colourdepth from less. I have over 20+ years experience with graphics of all
kinds. If you want the levels of each image, I can gladly upload them.
Red: The machinery is not in the correct position in reference to the placement of the minerals/sand/whatever it is and the dirt hole
Orange: Theres an item in the raw image that's not present in your image Wildspace, so wtf is going on?
Conclusion
The images you used are different and show a different alignment for some reason. Please provide your original sources or leave it alone.
edit on 9-1-2017 by LonnyZone because: conclusion