Comments on: Hebes Chasma

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Cheyenne — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:50:39 +0000

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By: A. Dubbin

A. Dubbin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:19:39 +0000

Shame on me for thinking of first the pejorative term for Jews. What really makes that sad is my undergrad degree was in Classical Studies, and I know who Hebe was. :/

That said… isn’t the title missing an apostrophe? Are you just trying to fool our eyes BA?! ::shakes tiny fist::

By: Laser Potato

Laser Potato — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:03:10 +0000

Mind the gap!

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:32:44 +0000

“The V—– On Mars”.

The Venus On Mars!?

A better fit than Uranus On Mars though.

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:01:40 +0000

Please – somebody tell Richard Hoagland about this. I can’t wait to hear what he has to say about “The V—– On Mars”.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:17:06 +0000

Holy crap! It looks like a giant cooter! Maybe they should turn the picture sideways.

By: Harold

Harold — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:45:26 +0000

Cameron, thatnk you. But DarkSapiens was right, and Chip provided a link to exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to see!

It is so hard to look at the stuff at the bottom of the slopes and not imagine that it is silt…and still wet.

By: firemancarl

firemancarl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:34:07 +0000

Glad I am not the only one who thought it looked similar to the area that houses the thing that rhymes with Delores.

By: Pieter Kok

Pieter Kok — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:01:42 +0000

I tried to calculate the atmospheric pressure at the bottom of the chasm, but the atmospheric formula gives a ridiculous answer. Clearly it needs a more sophisticated approach.

Anyone? … anyone? …

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:26:39 +0000

boggis the cat said: “So, if the CIA were to find a video recording from OBL in his secret Martian lair…”

You’re attributing to OBL more scientific brilliance than he could ever deserve. Don’t worry, Mars is safe from his contemptible presence, nor is he in Iraq. Check a geography book. News reports say he’s likely in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area, or maybe Dick Cheney’s basement.

Out of the “bogus” realm – I found a few hints in the text that false color filtering was used to perhaps enhance data but the terrain above the canyon also looks like “authentic” Martian colors as seen from space, so I’m wondering if the beautiful blue/green shades at the base of the canyon represent different chemistry or are similar to authentic colors.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:33 +0000

Wow!
Sexy!!!

Just goes to show, the universe celebrates life, regardless of universal censors.

GAry 7

By: Bobby Thigpen

Bobby Thigpen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:15:16 +0000

Just saying what I’m seeing.
It looks like roadkill to me, lol.

By: Daffy

Daffy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:54:50 +0000

“So, if the CIA were to find a video recording from OBL in his secret Martian lair…”

They would do the same thing they are doing now: nothing.

Amazing pic…I, too, am curious about how much (if any at all) denser the atmosphere would be down there.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:57:54 +0000

Holy Canole! Those are great images, especially in 3D. (Good 3D glasses are a great investment.) Just wish they had the whole image in anaglyph as well as the others. See the ESA site. Colors.

By: johnb

johnb — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:03:14 +0000

What would the atmospheric pressure be at the bottom of this thing?

By: boggis the cat

boggis the cat — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:39:25 +0000

I think that the resolution is more like 45 m per pixel. The key giving 20 km is around 439 to 441 pixels long, which would be 45.56 to 45.35 m per pixel.

I looked at the image size information and calculated roughly 40 km vertical, then thought “That is an incredibly steep edge”. Then I spotted the scale key.

By: boggis the cat

boggis the cat — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:12:21 +0000

“If all the money wasted on Bush’s Iraq war was spent on exploring Mars we could have more than a few nifty robots exploring down there!”

Hmm.

So, if the CIA were to find a video recording from OBL in his secret Martian lair…

By: Gavin Flower

Gavin Flower — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:31:28 +0000

Actually this must indicate an highly intelligent artistic life form, who used at least one human model.

Probably from their impressionistic period (or deliberately modified to evade their censors?).

Likely to be a signal made for us – saying they’ve been to Earth, loved the hospitality, and moved on…

So it is unlikely to be the work of life forms that evolved on Mars!

-Nivag

By: Gavin Flower

Gavin Flower — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:25:18 +0000

Yes, I too automatically thought of a woman, I wonder why…

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:09:53 +0000

JackC and Ian -

I was going to make a joke about depth perception problems and not being able to tell if it was a butte or a crack, but decided not to. You can thank me now or later…

By: Falyne

Falyne — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:09:53 +0000

Erm.

Hrm.

Ahem.

Cough.

It’s actually a pretty impressive layout; there’s a ridgeline majora, and a ridgeline minora. And it even has the most important bit, highlighted in blue.

(Ian: not long at all, I would wager. Like I said, it’s pretty impressive. )

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:01:10 +0000

I think that the hi-res version is much more beautiful than any artist could have
painted if he had tried for his lifetime.

Larry