Nasa's Stunning New Mars Photo Shows Mount Sharp With Earth-Like Lighting

[zorgon]

Nasa's Stunning New Mars Photo Shows Mount Sharp With Earth-Like Lighting

Nasa has released a new, incredibly detailed picture of a giant mountain on Mars.

Mount Sharp, also known as Aeolis Mons, is located in Mars' enormous Gale Crater, and rises more than 3 miles above the surface.

The $2.5 billion rover Curiosity is currently perched on its slopes looking for chemical hints that life once existed on the planet.

It took the new photograph over dozens of separate exposures, using the 100-millimeter telephoto lens camera.

Nasa released the picture in a 'white balanced' version which shows what the mountain would look like under Earth lighting.

The effect is an eerie Earth-like image, but one which is also distinctly alien.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/18/nasas-stunning-new-mars-photo-mount-sharp_n_2898965.html

[zorgon]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Pimander]

Obvious question here, but, what makes that picture look distinctly alien?

[Littleenki]

Obvious question here, but, what makes that picture look distinctly alien?

Certainly not that clay banked dry lake bed at the base...  :0

[Pimander]

Certainly not that clay banked dry lake bed at the base...  :0

Precisely what I thought it looked like.

There must be water underground on Mars if it is warm down there.  Now we just need to meet the critters

[ArMaP]

Obvious question here, but, what makes that picture look distinctly alien?

To me, the lack of signs of water erosion.

[The Matrix Traveller]

It will be interesting to see the NASA response, when Water starts to erupt from below the surface of Mars.

A fairly common "phenomena" seen in other planets throughout this Universe...   

It's due to happen possible not too far away in the Future (impossible to say exactly when)

Could introduce some intense observation and the rewriting of some human based theory, which could change our understanding of Earths behaviour too.

This (the huge eruptions of Water) has happened on Earth before, as well as the Seas disappearing.

Both just part of the same "Thermal" cycle.

Guess we will just have to be patient in waiting, and see what happens...   

[zorgon]

Obvious question here, but, what makes that picture look distinctly alien?

Obvious answer..

Because NASA says so 

[zorgon]

It will be interesting to see the NASA response, when Water starts to erupt from below the surface of Mars.

Speaking of water...

I have been getting a small trickle of text link ads from an independent agent. Nothing big a few bucks one time deal for 1 year.

These few links are on a couple of pages, almost unnoticable by the average reader (in fact a couple are in the meta tag) These are designed mostly for robots. As I said in the money thread ads like this can net $30.00ish per month but this is just getting our feet wet as it were.

But you all need to see this one... What is important here is WHERE the links are and WHO paid for them...

First here is the page that it is on....

Does the Moon Have an Atmosphere?

Now text link ads come in three forms
1) words in the meta tag  (hidden)
2) a single word with a link (no popup like google adsense
3) a small phrase or line of text that is relevant to the page, but links to the ad.


Okay  these ones are type three so go down that page and look at;

17) Water in Atmosphere?
21) Water Filtration Systems - Lessons Learned for Space

[sky otter]

hey that's good new 

too bad no one knows how to count the visitors/lurkers/not members
into the head count for more bucks

[ArMaP]

too bad no one knows how to count the visitors/lurkers/not members
into the head count for more bucks

Views are views, regardless of being members or not.

[Pimander]

To me, the lack of signs of water erosion.

What do you think the greyer mineral is?  How did it get there and look like that?

[ArMaP]

What do you think the greyer mineral is?  How did it get there and look like that?

I don't understand what greyer mineral you are talking about, but I know that I don't have the slightest idea of how any of those minerals got there.

[Pimander]

The greyer material at the bottom of the mountain in the pictures above. 

[The Matrix Traveller]

Thank for the Link Z I love the one re. Cloud Above the Crater Alphonsus - 1956

Looks like even our moon has similar behaviour...     even though to date No evidence
has been found on our moon. But obviously some thermal activity exists...

Re. "Cloud Above the Crater Alphonsus - 1956"

if so, then convectional eddies will probably exist below the moons surface.

http://www.odec.ca/projects/2004/ross4f0/public_html/tectonicplates.jpg

Much of our Resources come from inside our Planet..

Which are released through Thermal Vents.

This includes minerals, water and atmosphere.

Mars and Tectonic plates...

http://io9.com/5933638/plate-tectonics-confirmed-on-mars

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17vjmgbt15uuwjpg/original.jpg

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120809155831.htm

"Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth
may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth," said An Yin,
a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and the sole author of the new research.

Much of a Planets environment comes from within the Planet Via "Tectonic Vents" or thermally
produced "Vents".

I suspect they will find more Tectonic Plates on Mars, than presently thought.