Starship Asterisk*

[quote="owlice"]bystander, thank you for posting these, and all of the HiRISE series! I love these images.[/quote]
I actually get my updates from [url=http://www.uahirise.org/nea.php]HiRISE[/url] every Wednesday, but [url=http://spacespin.org/]Space Spin[/url] has many more links,
even from before I started posting them. They also have some more interesting image links.

[url=http://spacespin.org/search.php?query=HiRISE+images&type=stories&mode=search&keyType=phrase&results=50]HiRISE images[/url]
[url=http://spacespin.org/search.php?query=Cassini+ISS+images&type=stories&mode=search&results=50]Cassini ISS images[/url]
[url=http://spacespin.org/index.php?topic=space_obs]Space Observatories[/url]
[url=http://spacespin.org/search.php?query=Mars+Odyssey+THEMIS+images&type=stories&mode=search&results=50]Mars Odyssey THEMIS images[/url]
[url=http://spacespin.org/search.php?query=Lunar+Reconnaissance+Orbiter+LROC&type=stories&mode=search&results=50]Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images (LROC & LOLA)[/url]

[quote="owlice"]Once again, a set of captivating and (to me at least) beautiful images. Dark Dunes and (especially) Dust Fans look like art, and I think a good case for Layered Deposits, too.

bystander, thank you for posting these, and all of the HiRISE series! I love these images. I don't know why they strike a chord with me, but they do; I'm so glad I get to see them![/quote]

I agree, Owlice. The three images you mention are beautiful and almost magical.

So the Cydonia image is really the "face on Mars", eh? I wouldn't have guessed. That part of Mars really looked best before those irritating scientists took a high-resolution image of it, didn't it?

[img]http://www.scibuff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/aliens-on-mars-2.jpg[/img]

And lookee what I found... the things NASA won't tell us, eh?

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zdLOCi2wgS4/ScKTPOenImI/AAAAAAAACZk/vmJh5bWoDok/s400/face+mars.jpg[/img]

Ann

My favorite was the Face on Mars (Cydonia). I really like the color contrast. The Dust Fans are cool, especially if you read the explanation.

The Bull's Eye caught my attention, and others, too. On [url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/30/wham-bulls-eye/]Bad Astronomy[/url], Phil Plait has an interesting analysis of it. There is also an article about it on [url=http://www.universetoday.com/70045/bulls-eye-on-mars-and-apparently-an-industrial-complex/]Universe Today[/url].

[url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/photogalleries/100729-space-pictures-martian-dunes-telescope-104/]National Geographic[/url] has a photo gallery that includes the Bull's Eye and the Dust Fans, as well as a shot from [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=20444]Spitzer[/url]. They also have a photo of the Gobi Desert that looks like it's a HiRISE picture of Mars.

Once again, a set of captivating and (to me at least) beautiful images. Dark Dunes and (especially) Dust Fans look like art, and I think a good case for Layered Deposits, too.

bystander, thank you for posting these, and all of the HiRISE series! I love these images. I don't know why they strike a chord with me, but they do; I'm so glad I get to see them!

[url=http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/ESP/ORB_018500_018599/ESP_018522_2270/ESP_018522_2270_RED.thumb.jpg][img]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2010/details/ESP_018522_2270.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_018522_2270][b]Bull's-Eye Impact Crater (ESP_018522_2270)[/b][/url]

[url=http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/PSP/ORB_002500_002599/PSP_002574_1865/PSP_002574_1865_RED.thumb.jpg][img]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2010/details/PSP_002574_1865.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_002574_1865][b]Layered Rocks in a Crater in Arabia Terra (PSP_002574_1865)[/b][/url]

[url=http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/PSP/ORB_002800_002899/PSP_002860_1650/PSP_002860_1650_RED.thumb.jpg][img]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2010/details/PSP_002860_1650.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_002860_1650][b]Dark Dunes in Herschel Crater (PSP_002860_1650)[/b][/url]

[url=http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/PSP/ORB_002800_002899/PSP_002892_1760/PSP_002892_1760_RED.thumb.jpg][img]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2010/details/PSP_002892_1760.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_002892_1760]Layered Deposits in Aureum Chaos (PSP_002892_1760)[/url]

[url=http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/PSP/ORB_003100_003199/PSP_003180_0945/PSP_003180_0945_RED.thumb.jpg][img]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2010/details/PSP_003180_0945.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_003180_0945][b]Dust Fans on the Seasonal Carbon Dioxide Polar Cap (PSP_003180_0945)[/b][/url]

[url=http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/PSP/ORB_003200_003299/PSP_003234_2210/PSP_003234_2210_RED.thumb.jpg][img]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2010/details/PSP_003234_2210.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_003234_2210][b]Popular Landform in Cydonia Region (PSP_003234_2210)[/b][/url]

[b][i]Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona[/i][/b]

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