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Started by efflux, July 17, 2009, 10:09:32 PM

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efflux

July 17, 2009, 10:09:32 PM
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.

old_blaggard

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July 18, 2009, 12:55:50 AM
Wow, that is stunning!
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Seth

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July 18, 2009, 03:47:35 AM
damn it's big !

strange waves in the center of the crater

Henry Blewer

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July 18, 2009, 08:32:34 AM
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.
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Cyber-Angel

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July 18, 2009, 10:18:19 AM
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         

Matt

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July 18, 2009, 08:33:00 PM Last Edit: July 18, 2009, 08:34:47 PM by Matt
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
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Henry Blewer

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July 19, 2009, 08:30:12 AM
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. ::)
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TheBlackHole

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October 21, 2009, 05:03:08 PM
They already have: WIndows 7 Beta.
They just issued a tornado warning and said to stay away from windows. Does that mean I can't use my computer?

rcallicotte

#8
October 24, 2009, 08:39:07 AM
Thanks inky.  This image is cool.
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

Zairyn Arsyn

#9
October 26, 2009, 10:46:22 AM
wow.  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

now thats ultra wide screen......
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Marcos Silveira

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October 27, 2009, 08:10:53 AM
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.

inkydigit

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October 27, 2009, 09:07:42 AM
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!
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