Re: [Texascavers] WOW! More detail from the crater holes on Mars!!!

2007-08-31 Thread Don Cooper
I respect your skepticism - but this pic does not look fake in any way to me. -WaV On 8/30/07, George Nincehelser geo...@nincehelser.com wrote: I've no experience evaluating photos like this, but it just looks odd to me. I think what bothers me is that shadow is so straight. Wouldn't you

[Texascavers] WOW! More detail from the crater holes on Mars!!!

2007-08-30 Thread Don Cooper
This is copied from a post Lee Skinner placed on the Yahoo Cave-Diggers group: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera has a new photo of one of the pits on Mars: Dark pits on some of the Martian volcanoes have been speculated to be entrances into caves. A previous HiRISE image,

Re: [Texascavers] WOW! More detail from the crater holes on Mars!!!

2007-08-30 Thread Gregg
Well, the gig is up! You can now tell that the walls are overhanging. I downloaded the uncompressed file of the original photo a few weeks ago and did my own processing. I could see both the illuminated wall and the shadowed wall in reflected light, both of them far too thin for that to be

Re: [Texascavers] WOW! More detail from the crater holes on Mars!!!

2007-08-30 Thread George Nincehelser
I've no experience evaluating photos like this, but it just looks odd to me. I think what bothers me is that shadow is so straight. Wouldn't you expect it to be more curved? Also, when you look at the wall, I see something that looks like a barren rocky surface with a small impact crater. The