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There are a number of items of immediate interest. One, which I had seen in another discussion, speculated on the formation of the type of surface seen in the lower right. That is almost identical to the surface we see on old, wind eroded ice. Second, the red cliff bands periodically over the 1 km d...

henk, The common assumption is that the core is cool because there is no magnetic field. But if it were solely silica heated by uranium I don't believe that would set up a field either. I think you need an iron core for magnetism. And even if it does have a hot, iron core; if it were turning with th...

There is one major aspect that breaks the similarity between Mars and earth: the difference between the freezing temperature of water and the respective average surface temperatures. On Mars the average surface temperature is an odd 30 K lower than on earth. Here on earth a decrease of 10 K in aver...

That image, especially if you shrink and display the whole image, appears to have been stored and transmitted as a .jpg too many times. It is beginning to appear as shot through a screen door. JPG should never be used for analysis if possible. It is the only compression scheme which actually changes...

Okay, so I've come to believe water[ice currently] is much more prevalent on Mars than ever thought. Not only do we land atop it, but the July 8 APOD looks to me to have a floor of water vs the lava speculated. There is APOD discussion (you'll have to skim over all the posts concerning optical color...

Nope. I feel that the chasma is filled with water even more. It may be covered deeper with insulating soil than that which we saw under the lander but look at that surface. Those look like leads which have opened at some time in the past and refrozen; just as they do in the Arctic. And with experts ...

Since most APODs are color filtered/enhanced I've long ago stopped giving any relevance to blueberries. But this APOD is stunning! Without any analysis it looks so Earthly. The huge, slumped plug from the crater forward to the "bay" seems to be a "slide" which here on the banks o...

Okay, it seems that the strut was splashed with some of the water melted from "Ice Queen" when landing. It appears to have frozen as it splattered onto the strut and frozen as shown in http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/whitepatch_phoenix.jpg I wonder, after the recent ice sublima...

How strange to come home to this in my email after I had just witnessed my first circumhorizontal arc. With noon being directly overhead, it was at about 11 or 1 o'clock, and on a clear, sunny day in the 80's with wispy cirrus clouds. Though the sky was very similar to the prior post, the 'Fire Rain...

Apodman: I also notice you'll see the exact coding which must be typed for my last by clicking on "Quote". That and the mouse-over examples should give you the programming.

Apodman: there are examples to follow as you mouse-over each command [and they only appear when posting] But there are a couple more interesting items about the APOD image . Firstly it seems to be too jpg degraded [note the worms frothing the soil in shadow] for too detailed an analysis. But someone...

So if that is ice under Phoenix, why is it at different levels? Though the 'ice' exposures by the far leg all seem about the same height, the exposure closest to the camera seems much higher. Isn't the surface temperature fairly uniform such that all ice would be at the same depth? Or is this just h...

If I'd like to stop by for some stimulating conversation, there aren't too many homes in the Tacoma area with foil covered windows, are there? I would hope you'd leave your irrational and unsubstantiated theories behind. But if you truly believe that some advanced civilization can travel to our area...

Yes, and this image also shows the pockmarked flat of the Yucca Mtn [whole region left of center]. Most of those were the result of bomb drops, devices on towers and those suspended from balloons. But what I search for is those few tests towards the end of the 50's where the research began to go und...

Yes, I was thinking subterranean explosions too; but a bit deeper than the one resulting in the crater you picture. I was more interested in those which were contained underground and which I saw slump and vent in peripheral whisps. I can't find those tests or pictures right now as all I can find ar...

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I would think these steep cliffs would indicate a relatively 'fresh' crater. And I can understand that almost all impacts on Mercury would be close to the vertical as the rocks are accelerating toward the sun. Thanks to your crop, if we are looking down into th...

I don't blame him for being confused about your attack. I believe he was referencing your prior comment about the stitching operation. Just goes to demonstrate how easily people can be misunderstood in this medium though nothing required your response other than your own mind. I for one would like f...

With the sunshine coming from the lower right of the photo, my mind is having a hard time assembling what must be a very steep and deep cliff down to the depression in the center from which all the rays seem to eminate.

I'm hoping Crater Chains will give us his insight.

Yes, that was the article that the original photo here was posted from.
Another good site explaining this and other atmospheric phenomena is:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/cha2.htm

This thread seems to be a very good example of the oft repeated theory that seemingly intelligent people are not only incapable of understanding basic social interactions, but are unwilling to even attempt the practice of more appropriate interactions. I'm sure that most of you are chronologically m...

I find nothing unusual in researching ice formation in thunderheads; but why would NASA or DOD care to subvert such research and what would be her connection? Intelligent people are not necessarily logical nor reasonable and can be quite disruptive, but you suggest some degree of malicious intent. I...

Though I avoid Google and use Webcrawler [which like Google polls all the major engines though my results differ from Google] I could do a search for your answer, but then you're obviously savvy otherwise you wouldn't be on this site. What puzzles me is that someone with the moniker, FieryIce, shoul...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/images/060619-rainbow-fire_big.jpg National Geographic Though a circumhorizontal arc (fire rainbow) is one of the rarest of atmospheric phenomina, this one 3 June 2006 over the northern Washington/Idaho border is by far the most brilliant ever capture...

kovil wrote:at least out[sic] tomatoes won't spoil.

And maybe us too !

All higher plants and animals depend upon bacteria and enzymes to extract most of the nutrients from their food.

A dosage as forcast here would be catastrophic.

Strange how the picture looks so like a captured moment just as a sphere first begins to explode in a pattern much like an antenna radiation pattern. The effects you speak of give me pause as any effect can only augment our rapidly warming environment. The increased energy being added to our system ...