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Originally posted by mikesingh
Originally posted by donhuangenaro
here below are results of laboratory experiments with electric discharges
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/4d571bccea2e.jpg[/atsimg]
see any similarities?
Yep! But how big are they? Considering it is in the lab, they could not be more than a couple of inches at the most. What we're seeing on Mars is hundreds of feet in diameter!
An average bolt of positive lightning carries a current of up to 300 kA (kiloamperes) and has a potential difference up to 1 gigavolt (one billion volts). For an electric discharge to have produced those huge features on Mars, it would have to be in the range of trillions of volts!! Possible? I don't think so!
Cheers!
The B/W pic on the right which I’ve reoriented to match the image on the left, is purportedly a radar contour image of the same area where one can clearly see the ‘craters’. But they all seem equally spaced! Rare for a natural phenomenon