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Sep 1 2006, 02:38 PM
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Sep 5 2006, 03:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
The Meridiani Planum is like a dessert place as to the Earth. That place has so few boulders if we compare to the others places as seen by Vicky I (Chryse Plantia) and Vicky II (Isidis Plantia) and Pathfinder (Vallis Ares). That lead me to think that Meridiani had a very slow water flux or fewer water when comparing to the Vicky and Pathfinder places. These places had left big stones which might mean that place had a strong or much current of water which had eroded the land and left big boulders and stones.
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Sep 6 2006, 03:18 AM
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The Meridiani Planum is like a dessert place as to the Earth. That place has so few boulders if we compare to the others places as seen by Vicky I (Chryse Plantia) and Vicky II (Isidis Plantia) and Pathfinder (Vallis Ares). That lead me to think that Meridiani had a very slow water flux or fewer water when comparing to the Vicky and Pathfinder places. These places had left big stones which might mean that place had a strong or much current of water which had eroded the land and left big boulders and stones. Actually it reminds me more of what you'd expect to find on one of Earth's abyssal plains were you to drain its oceans dry: a very flat and very featureless landscape broken only by those features of comparatively recent origin (like Victoria Crater), in part because sediments deposited over the eons (when it was still a sea) have covered over the boulders and filled in the gullies, craters, etc which were originally there. ====== Stephen |
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