MARS Image: Is is Water or “layered hills”
Posted by Danger on November 29th, 2009 filed in Feed your head, It's Science
According to JPL –
Is this a picture of Mars or Earth? Oddly enough, it is a picture of Mars. What may appear to some as a terrestrial coastline is in fact a formation of ancient layered hills and wind-blown sand on Mars. The above-pictured region spans about three kilometers in Schiaparelli Crater. What created the layers of sediment is still a topic of research. Viable hypotheses include ancient epochs of deposit either from running water or wind-blown sand. Winds and sandstorms have smoothed and eroded the structures more recently. The “water” that appears near the bottom is actually dark colored sand.
November 29th, 2009 at 2:09 PM
looks like there WAS water there to me. although i can’t fly… i wish i could
November 29th, 2009 at 3:41 PM
The left over landscape of ancient nuclear warfare, on to the next one…
November 29th, 2009 at 7:41 PM
an ocean of sand and desolation. Makes me think that it was at some point a verdant place. Lush and full of life. Maybe Earth is Mars 2.0 and we just can’t remember the events that transpired.