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Posted by: atomoid Aug 31 2007, 02:06 AM

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09467

...never mind the fascinating modified ejecta, look just right of the middle at the very bottom of the image.

Odd I See an almost mathematically smooth bump at the bottom of the image. Details in http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA09467.jpg. Its probably nothing too special, but ive never seen anything quite like it in the context its in. and it has a very cinder-cone-like pointy shadow. looks much newer than the surrounding terrain. odd indeed.

Posted by: mgrodzki Sep 3 2007, 11:09 AM

is there any attention to this? odd indeed.

Posted by: Phil Stooke Sep 3 2007, 12:51 PM

Hills like this are common on Mars. There's nothing unusual about it. It is more likely to be older than its surroundings.

Phil

Posted by: djellison Sep 3 2007, 12:55 PM

It's just on the NNE rim of Gusev - I've looked for MOC / HiRISE / CTX imagery but no luck.

Doug

Posted by: Stu Sep 3 2007, 01:07 PM

Spotted something else interesting, farther up the image...

Might be just imagining it but can anyone else see a plume with a shadow cast on the ground beneath it? Dust devil? Something else..?

Posted by: ustrax Sep 3 2007, 01:19 PM

Stu, looks to me like an elevation similar to the one on the bottom of the image, but I might be also imagining stuff...

Posted by: TheChemist Sep 3 2007, 02:57 PM

The hill can be seen in the Viking context image for MOC e1100677, which BTW partly overlaps with PIA09467 :
http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/context/e11006/e1100677_gr.jpg

Posted by: atomoid Sep 7 2007, 05:18 AM

...so right about center in this bit here, then. thanks, nice find, gives context.

I combed HRSC images on the esa site but http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?topic=Solar+System&subtopic=Mars&subm1=GO&keyword=gusev.

Here's a http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060622a.