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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 7, 2012 19:51:00 GMT -5
This is an interesting video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfntZXQ8R5wNo link or coordinates to go along with it though, so I requested a link or coordinates from the maker of this video. Rather than responding with some confirmation, the video creator gave me this response: "Reply from MARSTVCHANNEL on "GALE CRATER CITY RUINS - TOUCH DOWN?" This video is protected by copyright, so I have to ask you to REMOVE IT from your website ASAP. Thank you." Accordingly, I have removed the video that was previously posted here.
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 7, 2012 20:19:32 GMT -5
There is a lot of honeycombing in the area near here, for instance:
Google earth - mars: 4°35'51.03"S 137°33'5.04"E
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 7:06:53 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 7:13:31 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 7:16:39 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 7:19:27 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 7:24:48 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 7:28:41 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 8, 2012 8:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 18, 2012 6:15:40 GMT -5
Video removed at youtube user's request.
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Post by ennasuss on Jul 18, 2012 17:47:41 GMT -5
isn't the new rover'curiousity' heding over to gale crater?? i read somewhere that it is and will be landing in two months!!
anyway...i can't whait for the panoramas
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Post by Marsrocks on Jul 18, 2012 19:12:58 GMT -5
Correct - I think Curiosity is supposed to land in early August.
MARSTV emailed me again saying that his video covers the area in Gale crater where Curiosity is to land - but still did not send me a link to the pic. He feels this is an important discovery he has made, and he has changed the video to private. I think he plans to reshoot his video and add a copyright watermark to it before he shows it again.
In either event the video shows a small area very similar to the images I posted - with rectlinear ground depressions and straight raised furrows.
There are a lot of really neat possibilities for discovery in the Curiosity mission. Of particular interest, there is what they believe is an inverted riverbed that they want to approach. An inverted riverbed is like a raised furrow. They believe that deposits were left in the bottom of an ancient riverbed and those deposits hardened. When the softer material around it was blown away, it left the hardened layers in place. If there are fossils, they could perhaps be eroding out of those layers.
This could get interesting.
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Post by Marsrocks on Aug 1, 2012 11:02:42 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Dec 28, 2012 12:49:14 GMT -5
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Post by Marsrocks on Dec 28, 2012 12:50:26 GMT -5
Image description:
Cemented Fractures in Mountain Inside Gale Crater on Mars
One type of feature of scientific interest on the mountain inside Gale crater is exposure of cemented fractures, evidence that groundwater once reached to at least that height of the mountain.
This image of that part of the mountain, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows symmetry in how material on one side of each fracture is balanced by material on the other side. This pattern indicates that mineral-saturated groundwater once filled the fractures. The water deposited minerals on both sides of the opening, eventually filling the gap.
This observation increases the appeal of Gale crater, which has been selected as the landing site for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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