Mars monolith

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hosman mentioned this in her thread, and then I got an email from someone interested in this article about the Mars monolith.


news.yahoo.com/monolith-object-mars-could-call-214004772.html

ca.news.yahoo.com/monolith-object-mars-could-call-214004772.html


I found this quote interesting:

"When your resolution is too low to fully resolve an object, it tends to look rectangular because the pixels in the image are squares. Any curve will look like a series of straight lines if you reduce your resolution enough" - Jonathon Hill, research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University.

Here are the pics, etc. I put up in another thread back in 2009. It seems NASA is really pushing this one on the media.

Here is a recent one they are calling the "monolith." It is located about half way down the slope of the canyon wall.



www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2572537/Mars-monument-proof-of-life.html

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5981624/Mars-monolith-fuels-theories-of-alien-life.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1204254/Has-mystery-Mars-Monolith-solved.html

hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_009342_1725

And there is another sharply rectilinear object on a nearby hill:

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“In reality it's more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature.”

Maybe so.

But there are a lot of other highly angular features in the area.

I'll show this one in relation to two others. Notice that all three of these highly angular features protrude from the ground at nearly the same angle - as we can tell from the shadows.

Also, all three angular features are set apart from their surroundings by a higher albedo - or even reflective nature.

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And here is another - same high albedo - same angle of protrusion from the ground:

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Here are a couple more - but possibly lower albedo - higher up on the cliff - and throwing some long shadows:

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Here is another one I found that is very similar - when I went in search of a closer look at canal forms in this hirise image:

hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001960_1450