Comments on: Glacier on Mars?

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:05:19 +0000

Darn. I didn’t see the crater… well, now it does look like a channel. Mea culpa.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:05:27 +0000

Gary, “Humans are coming with their giant probes”. HA! It’s payback time for all the times they have taken us out of our bedrooms in the middle of the night and subjected us to their filthy disgusting probes!

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:47:20 +0000

Gee, who’d a thunk it? Dick as a satirist,,,and here I thought he was a serious wanker.

How long before we have an analyses of H2O vapor?
What a great place to land a bio probe.

“Ack! The humans are coming, with their giant probes,,,”

Gary 7

By: Jasso

Jasso — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:17:29 +0000

“I’m a bit confused by the lighting as well.”

As far as orienting the lighting of a picture, a lot of times there are distinguishing landmarks that can be used. If you would notice, there are a number of craters in the image, including one with a slightly elevated edge. With craters, you will typically see a a shadow formed by the crater wall on the side the light is coming from and a brighter area where the light hits the opposite crater wall. That would indicate that the sunlight is coming from the lower left. If that were the case, the main structure in the image would be in a basin.

By: JanieBelle

JanieBelle — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:42:11 +0000

Interestingly enough, I was just thinking the feature looked like an upside down mushroom cloud.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:43:31 +0000

Is his first name Duke, by any chance?

By: Matt (A different one)

Matt (A different one) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:34:46 +0000

I know this is fairly off topic, but does anyone else find humor in the scientist’s name being Dr. Neukum?