A Delta River Near Hp ? |
A Delta River Near Hp ? |
Feb 14 2006, 12:58 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 |
While focusing on Home Plate, I checked out the "Where are the rovers now" page yesterday on the JPL rover site. If you look closely to the attached file, the issued picture quote xxxxNew MexicoXXXX on the back and to the right of the picture. Very close and on top of where "New Mexico" is written there is a place (approx 5-600 m to the east of HP), that remind me a picture from the Huygens probe on Titan. It's a kind of a small "river delta". My best guess for sure is that it has been done by dust devil, but why dust devils will unit this way? It doesn't make sense to me. Did somebody ever sew this ? (use 204kB definition to see it).
Climber http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-...MERA_A749_2.jpg -------------------- |
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Feb 14 2006, 06:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Attached is my adaption of Sigur's montage of Alan's and Tesheiner's images.
These features may be the trails from boulders rolling downhill since there seems to be a ledge of the rock unit draped over McCool Hill (indicated in green) above the trails and extending around McCool Hill. But this is not likely since there is not much talus at the toe of the hill. Noting the prevailing wind direction (in blue) I'd guess these are sand ripples. --Bill -------------------- |
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