[Texascavers] Re: [SandiaGrotto] Martian sinkhole

2011-08-18 Thread Lee H. Skinner
On 8/18/2011 11:38 AM, Tenzin Beck wrote: Not likely a meteor-- it's too conical, and has no sign of a rim or nearby ejecta. Always hard to judge scale and angles in these kinds of images... anyway, my guess is that the underlying lava tube had a partial collapse on its own, causing the sand/re

[Texascavers] Re: [SandiaGrotto] Martian sinkhole

2011-08-18 Thread Lee H. Skinner
On 8/18/2011 11:38 AM, Tenzin Beck wrote: Not likely a meteor-- it's too conical, and has no sign of a rim or nearby ejecta. Always hard to judge scale and angles in these kinds of images... anyway, my guess is that the underlying lava tube had a partial collapse on its own, causing the sand/re

[Texascavers] Re: [SandiaGrotto] Martian sinkhole

2011-08-18 Thread Lee H. Skinner
On 8/18/2011 11:38 AM, Tenzin Beck wrote: Not likely a meteor-- it's too conical, and has no sign of a rim or nearby ejecta. Always hard to judge scale and angles in these kinds of images... anyway, my guess is that the underlying lava tube had a partial collapse on its own, causing the sand/re