Curiosity Has Landed!!

reply to post by Alda1981

Here is what a progressive zoom of the "trees" shows.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/b39be846bf2e1182.jpg[/atsimg]
Interesting terrain, not trees.

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Alda1981

 

Here is what a progressive zoom of the "trees" shows.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/b39be846bf2e1182.jpg[/atsimg]
Interesting terrain, not trees.

Looks like ancient liquid water tributaries...
2nd

reply to post by DARREN1976


imo... on the side of it those others have shadows... in any case that place would qualify probably as more interesting to study it... than a freaking desert... again

reply to post by DARREN1976

Hard to imagine flowing water. The "trees" are in the south polar region where it stays very cold. It is thought that the "spiders" are the result of CO2 gas "cutting" through solid CO2 around CO2 geysers.

Dark radially converging dendritic patterns are visible in MOC images of some portions of the spring polar cap, these have been termed " spiders" by the MOC team. In this model, these patterns represent channels formed by subslab channelized flow of the sublimation gas toward the vents. Increasingly large particles could become entrained closer to the vent.

www.lpi.usra.edu...

Threads topic is the rover on mars not "trees" or co2.

Please stay on topic.

Add more pictures directly from the rover itself not satellite images.

Thank you.

And something else took off!

reply to post by MajesticTwelve


I'm curious for explanations..

Great!!

Nasa Appears to have down linked a lot of Full sized images today.
So, for many of the SOLs that consisted of only thumbnail images..there are now lots of full-sized images to compliment the collection. Not a lot of Color. But lots of Navigation Cam images...Looks like 500 or so today.
You can see them here
mars.jpl.nasa.gov...