The power of HiRISE |
The power of HiRISE |
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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...!
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 ![]() |
I would add however Stu that the age of dunes on this steep slope doesn't necessarily correspond to the age of dunes on the plains of Meridiani. So don't abandon your idea yet. For all we know these dunes migrate down that slope on a much more frequent basis. And if the composition is different from what we've seen previously then the mechanical properties of the particles comprising them will be different too. Show me this same photo two years hence and then we can come to some conclusions.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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