Starship Asterisk*

by **Czerno** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:15 pm

No data still off the height of those sand dunes (if they are sand dunes) ?
Is ~100 metres a correct approximation ? (ap080404)

by **neufer** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:23 pm

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080404.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/fant-04.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/a ... oo_02.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/

by **iamlucky13** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:07 pm

PaGeN wrote:I am trying to get a feel for what I am looking at in this picture. Do we have anything like this on Earth?

More or less, yes. The stuff growing in the pictures on this page makes it look a little less like Mars, but geologically it's similar:

http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/2004/aug04.htm

by **PaGeN** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:56 pm

I am trying to get a feel for what I am looking at in this picture. Do we have anything like this on Earth?

spans about 4 kilometers, a distance you might walk over flat ground in less than an hour.

Something a bit more than the reference with the picture.

TIA,

PaGeN

by **Czerno** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:30 pm

A question regarding the spectacular picture in Neufer's link : is the vertical scale exaggerated ? Put differently, how deep are the canyons seen there ?

Similar question about the waves in to-day's aesthetical APOD.

by **neufer** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:47 am

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080404.html

<<The larger Aureum Chaos region is a chaotic jumble of eroded terrain in the eastern part of Mars' immense canyon Valles Marineris.>>

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/mar ... _Hires.jpg
This is one of the most stunning 3D space pictures I have ever seen!

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A Martian MEGAFLOOD?

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Anything like it on Earth?

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