Comments on: More gorgeous HiRISE pictures

By: CR

CR — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:28:16 +0000

Amazing! So close to home (and so similar), yet so far away. Love to go there someday.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:13:50 +0000

I see dead people.

By: sprocket

sprocket — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:28:35 +0000

There is the clear outline of a Roman fort at 0.8E,0.1N relative to bottom left. Two good rightangles and a gatehouse- slightly off centre, but not bad – one of Publius Quinctilius Varus’ lost legions?

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:09:19 +0000

If you look really closely, you can see the outline of a coyote plummeting towards the bottom of the cliff.

Seriously, keep the excellent images coming.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:54:38 +0000

Excellent.

In the full image to which you link, BA, is the white material near the bottom of the image carbon dioxide frost? If so, that would be so cool!

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:45:07 +0000

Spectacular. It almost looks like vegetation.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:05:20 +0000

I think it would be awesome if someone would develop an “Age of Empires”-type game in which you could edit the terrain (as you can in Age of Empires) to have Mars-like textures, with scarps and craters and stuff. I’d buy that. Then I’d wipe out the Martian civilizations with my rocket-powered chariots.

By: nih

nih — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:41:14 +0000

Never mind, found some links to other things that turned out to be the first thing!

By: nih

nih — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:39:18 +0000

I see nothing. What on earths (or mars) is a .jnlp file? How do you grab the high res copy?

By: eddie

eddie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:27:02 +0000

I see ancient ruins!

Who am I?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:10:35 +0000

Wow, this image however is a great candidate for pareidolia. If I really want to I can easily make out a beautiful beachhead there. The cliff is some recently wet sand(thus the different color), the white stuff in the very lower right is water retreating into the ocean, and the dunes in the middle are actually just marks from last nights high tide. Ahh… if only that were true.

By: annonymous

annonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:39:57 +0000

Very interesting. If you look carefully you can see the face of Jesus. And a toast. And the face of Jesus on the toast.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:59:06 +0000

Lies! That’s the beach near San Juan Capistrano! I can see the swallows.

What’s making the soil look blue?

Blue meanies.

http://www.yellowsubmariner.com/blue_meanies.jpg

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:45:06 +0000

Danny, the soil looks blue because that’s a false-color image. These colours have been used aplenty in recent Mars imagery to highlight differences in geology.

In this case, blue seems to indicate sand. Which in reality is just as orange as almost everything else on Mars.

By: Celtic_Evolution

Celtic_Evolution — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:28:53 +0000

I liked that one too, but ultimately on my desktop it looked like a picture of a brain… a little creepy, so I took it off.

By: Ken B

Ken B — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:24:59 +0000

How about an entire herd of giant glass worms?

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001736_2605

By: Danny Schade

Danny Schade — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:06:50 +0000

What’s making the soil look blue?

By: Celtic_Evolution

Celtic_Evolution — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:06:48 +0000

And thus is born my new desktop background.

Spectacular! I loves me some Hirise!