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Originally posted by zooplancton
you HAVE to post the large image of the crater on the dark side that has the luminous blue light coming out of it. the light bounces off the crater.
The lines may be evidence of collapsed lava tubes. The width is reasonable for that explanation. The lava tubes may be a result of the formation of Moltke crater. Since they run parallel to the slope, the lava tubes would tend to be of fairly consistent width and fairly straight. The tracks overlaying the smaller craters indicates that the collapses could have occurred after the formation of those craters.
Space weathering is a blanket term used for a number of processes that act on any body exposed to the harsh space environment. Airless bodies (including the Moon, Mercury, the asteroids, comets, and some of the moons of other planets) incur many weathering processes:
• collisions of galactic cosmic rays and solar cosmic rays,
• irradiation, implantation, and sputtering from solar wind particles, and
• bombardment by different sizes of meteorites and micrometeorites.
Space weathering is important because these processes affect the physical and optical properties of the surface of many planetary bodies. Therefore, it is critical to understand the effects of space weathering in order to properly interpret remotely sensed data.
They may also be fractures in the surface due to faulting.
Originally posted by Skallagrimsson
I haven't seen this Mars anomaly posted anywhere. I found it searching the martian surface in Google Earth.
It looks artificial like a base with landing strip and roads. There are nothing (that I can find) that resembles this in the surrounding area.
.....and I have looked!!!
It is located at: 84* 15' 57.17" S 56* 26' 41.03" W
Originally posted by ziggystar60
reply to post by watchZEITGEISTnow
I did actually try to think a little outside the box regarding Aristarchus crater, that is why I searched for photos outside of NASA's image libraries. And as I said in my post, there is no reason to believe that the amateur astronomer who took the two astropics I posted have tampered with them in any way. Why would he do that?
I am sure you can find lots and lots of other photos of this particular crater taken by astronomers here on Earth. At this site you can find links to many other great planetary images, knock yourself out!
www.astro-imaging.de...
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Originally posted by Skallagrimsson
I haven't seen this Mars anomaly posted anywhere. I found it searching the martian surface in Google Earth.
It looks artificial like a base with landing strip and roads. There are nothing (that I can find) that resembles this in the surrounding area.
.....and I have looked!!!
It is located at: 84* 15' 57.17" S 56* 26' 41.03" W
To me, this ties in directly to the "blueberries' and the crater with a golf ball in it. The image you show above looks exactly like what you would expect if it were etched electrically (or if water erosion due to a torrent eroded the soil).