>Hi, List, > > Ok, it's a little off topic, but... A friend of mine belongs >to a group one of whom found the following site displaying an >image of a Martian surface feature: ><http://www.enterprisemission.com/samp5.htm> > This site is one maintained by a notorious whacko and >fringe-theorist, Hoagland, the author of Monuments of Mars, so I >told them he was a nutcase; forget it. And they properly came >back me with "Forget about the nutcase; what the Hell is this?" >And I didn't have a good answer. In fact, I don't think I've got >any answer. Enigmatic is the best description I could come up >with and that's just a word for an excuse. > Since the link to the original Mars Observer Narrow Angle >Camera image on the Hoagland site is broken, here's the correct >link for those that want to puzzle over it in greater detail: ><http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/images/M0400291.html> > Any ideas? What the Hell is this? > >Sterling K. Webb > obviously a set of dunes, chanelled by topography. Dunes are much more common on Mars than ET. The uncommon thing is the chanelling of the dunes but it is easely accounted for by the valley topography.
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