Starship Asterisk*

Geezer Gullies at Tempe Terra (ESP_017015_2245)


Viscous Flow in Protonilus Mensae (ESP_017024_2230)


Star Dunes in Crater in Tyrrhena Terra (ESP_017036_1665)


Icy Northern Dunes (ESP_017043_2640)


Pits along Fractures in Crater Floor Material (ESP_017103_2255)


Collapse! (ESP_017171_2190)


Intra-Crater Structure in NW Hellas Basin (ESP_017196_1455)


Big Impact-Triggered Dust Avalanche (ESP_017229_2110)


Megabreccia in the Central Uplift of Stokes Crater (ESP_017257_2360)


Deformed Craters and Polygons in Utopia Planitia (ESP_017260_2225)


Knobs near Reull Vallis (ESP_017286_1430)


Light-Toned Rocks inside a Crater (ESP_017292_1680)

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

For more, see:
PDS Release: May 2010 (orbit 16,900 - 17,299)
Captioned Image Showcase for the May 2010 PDS Release

What a planet!

Icy Northern Dunes and especially Pits along Fractures in Crater Floor Material look like art. Rendered in oil or acrylic on canvas, they would not be out of place framed and hung on a gallery wall.

Megabreccia in the Central Uplift of Stokes Crater makes me think of millipedes, the big ones (and they give me the heebie-jeebies!!). The area at the bottom is very pretty, reminiscent of galena.

Deformed Craters and Polygons in Utopia Planitia is having me searching my memory (or googling soon if memory fails) for the protist flatworm? (something!) shaped like the raised area.

Oh, so many things for us to see! What a fortunate time to be alive!

WOW!
I like all of these images! They could have been taken on earth.

Viscous Flow in Protonilus Mensae look like there was plate tectonic forming canyons.