Maybe some of you will have seen these photos before but I only saw them a few weeks ago. This one is particularly amazing:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA10007.jpg
Zoom to full size - it's big.
Wow, that is stunning!
damn it's big !
strange waves in the center of the crater
It's interesting that the waves are still there. Are they 'petrified' waves? Is there enough wind and atmosphere to pile the dust like that? Makes for some interesting render possibilities.
Looking at this I would postulate that that wave like structures on the Crater floor are in fact a small dune system; dunes of similar appearance appear near the rim of the crater and are evidence of the wind patterns on the surface. The processes of petrification and fossilization require the laying down of layers of sediment and pressure of many of these layers under vary specific conditions; you can not get those conditions in a dynamic system such as a wave (Too My Knowledge). What you can and do find, however, is preserved evidence of wave action but not the wave its self. ;D
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
There's enough wind energy to produce dust storms and dunes. Photographs have shown that some dunes are dynamic even today (probably most of them). Even though the atmosphere is less dense than on Earth, wind velocities get much higher, and there's plenty of fine dust that's easier to move than your typical grain of beach sand.
Matt
I always hoped to get there some day when I was a kid. Now I'm 46. I may happen, but I think Microsoft will offer Windows 7 to everyone free first. ::)
They already have: WIndows 7 Beta.
Thanks inky. This image is cool.
wow. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
now thats ultra wide screen......
Mars is a SO dead place!!! :-[
It's even sad to stare some pics of it, it's always the same landscape features and desolation...
And it's a fuking beautiful place indeed.
Quote from: calico on October 24, 2009, 08:39:07 AM
Thanks inky. This image is cool.
werent me....;)
super vista, and yes...its desolate and startlingly beautiful...
danke efflux!