Exclamation Mark on Mars

[zorgon]

Exclamation Mark on Mars

MRO HiRISE image (ESP_020794_1860)




Image source: http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_020794_1860

[Somamech]

Whats the deal with the Blur in that image ?

[Amaterasu]

Whats the deal with the Blur in that image ?

Yeah, I looked at it and My first thought was, "Wonder what They blurred out there....."

[LSWONE]

Lol
Big Lots!

Sorry I had to say it.

[ArMaP]

Whats the deal with the Blur in that image ?

What blur?

[rdunk]

What blur?

The same cloudy white stuff that shows up on many Mars photos. And often, if a photo is not blurred with white thatchy/smoky stuff, it is blurred/blocked with black shadow.

[Lunica]

Zorgon,

Who made the geometric measurements in this image?

[deuem]

Night Time Deuem, make of it what you will




Flows



IMHO, you should have one also...

I can not find anything in the white that looks out of place. It is relatively flat.

This entire area looks like a depression that once might have been full of water. The worm lines looks like wave crests that had rippled the sand then frozen in time. The flows go toward what looks like the top, not away from it. Optical illusion anyone..

In the white area it also looks like it was hit pretty good and the splatter goes out of frame top.  What ever hit it must have been softer than this rock because it looks like it just splattered. No huge crater. But there is one in the white. If the material was something like chalk then I can see the white being left all over. The rest of the splatter I can only pick up with the Deuem photo. It has been covered over with dust.

[1Worldwatcher]

It may be a low trajectory Meteor impact on an ancient ocean/sea, not deep enough to engulf the meteor's potential energy, but enough to allow it to be slowed creating a 'Back Wash' of debris from initial impactor ?

Interesting none the less, Deuem's processed image really messes with my optical's !!    Is cool though Deuem !!

1WW

[ArMaP]

The same cloudy white stuff that shows up on many Mars photos. And often, if a photo is not blurred with white thatchy/smoky stuff, it is blurred/blocked with black shadow.

There's nothing blurred in the original image, just an overexposed area, and that can be corrected when you look at the JPEG 2000 image instead of the small version posted on the thread.

[ArMaP]

It may be a low trajectory Meteor impact on an ancient ocean/sea, not deep enough to engulf the meteor's potential energy, but enough to allow it to be slowed creating a 'Back Wash' of debris from initial impactor ?

I think it's a mesa, so without any depth.

[1Worldwatcher]

I think it's a mesa, so without any depth.

I can plainly see the Strata lines of accumulated terrestrial debris with in the image, it is the geological layering that comes with time. Similar to the tree rings we see on our own planet, but mostly represented by what we know now as the K/T Boundary, I went to Google Mars too see if I could pull it up and then Sketchup the area with numbers, for some reason, the website for this image doesn't work any longer. So, will have to agree to disagree , at the moment anyway, regardless, it is now a 'Plateau', and it appears to be caused by something, Water ways, Meteorite/Asteroid or Aliens!! I can see there is complexity of a planets normal accumulative processes,
"Strata" as it were.

Will keep trying to access website for Long/Lat information.

1WW

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

I think it's a mesa, so without any depth.

I looked at the HiRise Jpeg 2000 image and to me it's clearly a depression. As old as Mars is, it's impossible to tell exactly how this depression was formed geologically speaking. Everyone is just guessing without analyzing the actual core samples one would have to have to tell the exact composition and age.

IMHO
Rock..

[Amaterasu]

I looked at the HiRise Jpeg 2000 image and to me it's clearly a depression. As old as Mars is, it's impossible to tell exactly how this depression was formed geologically speaking. Everyone is just guessing without analyzing the actual core samples one would have to have to tell the exact composition and age.

IMHO
Rock..

Based on shadow analysis - those lumps near the top are unlikely to be depressions - I agree, Sgt.  It is a depression.

[1Worldwatcher]

I looked at the HiRise Jpeg 2000 image and to me it's clearly a depression. As old as Mars is, it's impossible to tell exactly how this depression was formed geologically speaking. Everyone is just guessing without analyzing the actual core samples one would have to have to tell the exact composition and age.

IMHO
Rock..

I am with you Sgt. !! It's seems to be a depression, wish we could get a closer looksie.. LOL Wheres "Z" with that sports Mosel? ! LOL

1WW