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Soup Dragon, The far rim features below F2/3
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post Sep 29 2006, 05:33 AM
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Clangers fans everywhere rejoice...!!! She's real!!

"The Soup Dragon"

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Aww go on, use that name NASA, you know you want to...!!

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post Sep 29 2006, 08:16 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 29 2006, 06:33 AM) *
Clangers fans everywhere rejoice...!!! She's real!!

"The Soup Dragon"

Impressive find, Stu...but she's not looking too well! Probably a blue-string pick-me-up called for.

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post Sep 29 2006, 08:20 AM
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Well, the Dragon is a lot more convincing than the Face. Maybe Mars should be renamed "the Rorschach Planet"... tongue.gif

Stu, I double-dog dare ya to forward this to Hoaxland... cool.gif


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post Sep 29 2006, 08:24 AM
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reminds me of old maps of uncharted territories.

"Here be dragons"

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post Sep 29 2006, 07:17 PM
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Actually it is supposed to go: "Here there be lyons"

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post Sep 29 2006, 07:40 PM
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Nope -- as I've said before, here at Victoria, the map edge notes read, "Here they drag beacons..."

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post Sep 30 2006, 07:24 AM
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post Oct 3 2006, 09:00 PM
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Soup Dragon looks a lot bigger and more growly now... wink.gif


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post Oct 3 2006, 09:19 PM
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Cleaned up a bit...

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Wow, how I'd love to hike over there... rolleyes.gif


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post Oct 4 2006, 07:33 AM
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QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 4 2006, 06:01 AM) *
You're right, Stu... and there is another not far from it, Both are clearly visible in MGS image.


Yep, I thought so too... I remember commenting on them yonks ago but as no-one replied I thought maybe I was imagining them.

I'm loving the detail visible on the "Soup Dragon" now... smile.gif


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post Oct 11 2006, 10:04 PM
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Hail Soup Dragon! smile.gif

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post Oct 15 2006, 08:27 PM
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Thank you for aiding my small obsession, Stu! The best capture yet of the base of "F2". Note the part circled in green below. This may turn out to be nothing, but I can't take my eyes away from it. I no longer think it's slumped down from above, but it doesn't look like it belongs there. I'm curious if it's just a giant shadow trick or if it truly is related to what we see at the base of Cape Verde.

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Hmmm, you might well be onto something there Windy... here's another look at it...

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I must admit I hadn't noticed its similarity to the base layer of Verde until you pointed it out...

Here's the view from above, courtesy of MRO...

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(lifts eyebrow in Spock fashion) Fascinating...

(This isn't really Cabo Verde-related tho Windy... maybe we should start a dedicated "Soup Dragon & area" thread instead...?)


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post Oct 16 2006, 02:56 AM
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Wow, thanks for the larger pic! It's hard to tell from this distance, but the more I look, the less I can tell. I'm kind of floating back and forth (on whether they'd match up to Verde's "lowest unit(s)") because of the vertical fractures in those rocks.

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(This isn't really Cabo Verde-related tho Windy... maybe we should start a dedicated "Soup Dragon & area" thread instead...?)

Apologies to the mods! If this needs to be moved, great!
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post Oct 16 2006, 08:52 AM
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Nice to see a Soup Dragon thread. I've already started using the term 'soup dragon' (lower case) in the general sense of 'slumped crater wall promontory'. As well as recalling fond memories of The Clangers, it perfectly describes the way in which I think these things could have formed, namely by subsidence into a soupy substrate. (Yes I know that's out of line with most of the geological discussion at the moment - well if I'm wrong that'll be another clanger, won't it?)
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