The power of HiRISE |
The power of HiRISE |
Oct 9 2008, 08:04 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Busy preparing a new Outreach talk here, and have been trying to find some images to illustrate the "power" of HiRISE for a non-technical audience. Playing about with - sorry, carefully looking at the images on - the addictive Mars Global Data site I found a cute landslide on Xanthe Terra that does the trick nicely. Using the IAS Viewer you can zoom in on the boulders carried down the slope by the landslide and even see cracks and splits in them... unbelievable...!
Anyone else got any fave examples? -------------------- |
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Oct 11 2009, 04:05 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 11-September 09 Member No.: 4937 |
Any geological types want to hazard a guess what this is? Crater with multiple rims, maybe? (I'm not good at whether a feature is an innie or an outie.) |
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Oct 11 2009, 06:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
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Oct 11 2009, 06:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Any geological types want to hazard a guess what this is? Crater with multiple rims, maybe? (I'm not good at whether a feature is an innie or an outie.) hmm, looks like craters that's been eroded down to their "cores". The boulders could be megabrecia. alternatively, could be eroded, heavily jointed basalt... In which case you are looking at the tops of plutonic dikes. Either way, lots of erosion. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Oct 11 2009, 09:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1585 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
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Oct 15 2009, 08:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
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Oct 15 2009, 08:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
That is amazing. It looks like a blanket with an artistic pattern.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 15 2009, 09:23 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10184 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This is where we need the guy who says 'Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!'
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 15 2009, 10:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
My gosh! At first I thought it was a joke picture of someone's tattoo. Where/what is it?
--Greg |
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Oct 15 2009, 10:38 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10184 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Not a bad idea... I think I will get that tattooed on me.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 16 2009, 12:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 105 Joined: 27-August 05 Member No.: 479 |
are the dunes in valleys?
are the surrounding terrain hills? and mars has a thin atmosphere do the wind cyclones die as they leave the valley and terminate at the tops of the hills? of course the counter argument is on earth the valleys would be cold at there floors this must not be the mechanism on mars for energy for a cyclone or tornado. tornadoes on mars must be driven differently then on earth |
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Oct 16 2009, 12:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Oct 16 2009, 12:57 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
This one just gets more fascinating every time I look at it; definitely one of HiRISE's Top 10 most beautiful & intriguing images!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 16 2009, 11:38 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
(Looking at LROC image...)
Call that a bouncing boulder? THIS is a bouncing boulder..! http://twitpic.com/lsry0 http://twitpic.com/lss3l (from HiRISE image ESP_01439_2045) -------------------- |
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Oct 17 2009, 02:16 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...holy [clinking] [clink!!!!] Can't believe what I'm looking at here, Stu, what a find!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 17 2009, 03:59 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
(from HiRISE image ESP_01439_2045) Stu, that's not resolving; can you check your source? I think there should be six digits in the first cluster of numbers. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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