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The Number 8?
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post Feb 2 2006, 12:44 PM
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Mars Global Surveyor

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Number 8

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1357, 29 January 2006

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a spotted, high latitude plain, south of the Argyre basin. When the image was received from Mars by the MOC operations team, they noticed—with a sense of humor—the number "8" on this martian surface. The "8" is located at the center-right and is formed by the rims of two old impact craters that have been eroded and partly-filled and partly-buried beneath the surface.

Location near: 68.6°S, 38.4°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Summer

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/01/29/


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Feb 2 2006, 01:02 PM
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It looks more like a Snowman.
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