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The HiRISE image ESP_016032_2600 shows the dark spots and streaking we consider as seasonal in many polar areas. Is the hidden dark spot pattern here partly buried active mineralogy, near a patch of mounded mineral display, indicating an active force of mineral transition?
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I'll add additional examples of the scene in this dark spot recess in later entries. The detail is faint but colored as seen, and is partly hidden by dune movement from the upper left. Nearby is a rounded mound of bladed irregular mineral shapes.

Below, is a view of IR grayscale image dark spots which form or darken seasonally at the upper dune surfaces. They are mobile or more current in formation and display possibly, or, are both types the same in seasonal display at layer margin edges?
Is this an example of active and former or older mineral crystalline formation, in non-seasonal display over time?
Is the mound a true mineral formation of an active source?
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Sol 287,

horton, how good, does your good get?

I have been trying, but cannot seem to improve upon my old.

I am using IMG. files,(seems to be a few missing), i open them up, image j. convert to 32 bit, adjust levels..., but wait, why is the image clipped already??? clipped even at the 16bit level, any way , i do all the images in aset, convert to 16bit, stack, convert to rgb, or keep 16 bit(i have tryed all the methods my joe six pack mind can come up with), i end up with afile in image j, at say 4mb, but when i save as tiff. file, i end up with a3mb file in my folder? thats abig loss, 1mb.

Anyway, lets see who can come up with the best version of this image as possible.

Have you tried ISIS?

It is time for a new volume of this topic.

Volume 5 of the trip to Endeavour is here.

sol 2179 ( Mar 12, 2010 ) L0 3x1 pan in the next drive direction:

with a 3D link to a small scarp about 40 meters distant.

The next month or so should look like this heading south until the double crater about 600 meters away is in view.

I will post additional Concepcion images to volume 5 as they become available.

There is an interesting article in Aviation Week released today titled "Hi-Res Imagery Shows Some Mars Dunes Move", which can be found here - http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/asd/2010/03/09/11.xml&headline=Hi-Res%20Imagery%20Shows%20Some%20Mars%20Dunes%20Move .

Matt Golommbek of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is quoted "The blueberries appear to form an armoring layer that shields the smaller sand grains beneath them from the wind". The case being made is that where dunes move on Mars there are no berries; and where dunes are fixed there are many berries. I wonder if this armoring by the berries, that in fact anchors dunes to their current locations for hundreds of thousands of years, is a geological anomaly or could it be a biological survival mechanism? My guess is that there is no clear answer and it could be either.

Folks>>>

Read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550504.stm as you dream about the possibility of life on other worlds...for the events that ravaged the Earth 65 million years ago brought about life as we know it and are still in it.

In order for life [or intelligent life if you will] on other planets to exist, their planet containing similar early flora and fauna must go through similar havoc to bring about similar circumstances for their own life to be known so that we know them! They must surely go through a transformation of their own 'DNA' and evolve from quadra-peds to bi-peds like us...wouldn't you think?

Now>>>does a moons' tidal movements [if there are any habitable planets with moons] come into play on a planet in the habitable zone (HZ) have anything to do with life? [intelligent or not]

Just a few thoughts!

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this is my first 'link'...not sure what will post.

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If underground ice is common at mid-latitudes, then it may be frequently excavated in impacts, leading to more moist temporary conditions.

Hi everyone,

It's been quite a while since I visited the forum - loads of interesting posts as usual!

I took a pic with my li'l 4" refractor - captured polar cap and some ice crystal clouds!

Nothing beats seeing this fascinating planet for yourself!

regards,

Brian

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Would solve a lot of issues!
FMR

Genetic testing identifies the unique genetic profile of an individual, the genetic profile inherited partly from the father and partly from the mother. By comparing the child’s genetic profile with that of the alleged father, a DNA paternity test determines whether the person is the real biological father. http://www.homednadirect.com.au/

The final week of February 2010 brought a number of large and damaging earthquakes around the world, all within the expected and routine zones of repeated former earthquake patterns.
These animated GIF image sets of the globe show the simple seven day processes which gave predictable damages around the world along a vast line of activity. Using a display of the globe viewed from the satellite oversight of the Middle East, the Earthquakes are aligned on both hemispheres on the landmasses of the large Eastern continental mass, and, a combined mass of the Western hemisphere with the African and Middle East combined as a single compensating landmass.
Watch the landmasses covered with earthquakes as both hemispheres are viewed from the one perspective. The Chilean quake is the lower left brightest effect just around the edge of the Earth globe.
All landmasses overlay others in the viewpoint, and all earthquakes achieve an aligned total with only a very few non-related additions.
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Nice little update and video on MSL, I can see us all having heart attacks when they try and put it down using the Sky Crane.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8509080.stm

Hi Guys,

Great interview with Steve but this link will be switched off in a Day so click on as soon as you can, sorry for the short notice.

The Sky at Night is the longest running TV show hosted by the same person in History, Sir Patrick Moore has only missed one! That was bnecause of a bad Goose Egg, thankfully he survived it.

I have had the honour to have met him several times and look through his marvelous telescope that he built.

During the Summer I went to Japan with Chris Lintott and a large group to see the Solar Eclipse, Cloud on the Day but a great trip none the less.

Enjoy!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7hhttp://

It's time for a new volume of this topic. Posts are taking longer and longer and more and more errors are occurring when referencing the topic.

Volume 4 is here.

sol 2147 ( Feb 7, 2010 ) L0R0 detail of "Chocolate Hills":

Notice how the "rind" or "fracture fill" or whatever-the-stuff-is on the top appears to wrap around the curving side on the left.

The "whatever-the-stuff-is" looks more like a coating draped over the rock after is was blasted into its current position.

I look forward to more detailed pancam views of the left side of this rock.

Here is the latest Planetary Society update on the Mars Rovers, 31 January '10

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--Bill

I am interested in hearing from trained geologists how likely it is, in their opinion, that such geometries as pointed out here: http://martiananomaly.com/ can result in Martian mesa as a result of natural causes.

Thanks in advance.

Dilip

Manned mission to Mars as well?

I suppose this isn’t surprising. But very disappointing non the less. Who do we blame?
The Banks? Wall street? Obama?

“Constellation is dead,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity, referring to a program that envisioned returning to the moon by 2020 and using Earth’s nearest neighbor as a base for manned expeditions to Mars…
Reports added that the US space agency will work on finding a commercial solution to ferrying US astronauts to the International Space Station after the scheduled end of NASA’s shuttle program in September 2010.
Astronauts will be able to hitch rides aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but the United States will need a commercial alternative if Congress approves White House plans to scrap development of a successor to the shuttle program.
FMR

A short paper on the prelim findings about Marquette si available from LPSC:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/2109.pdf

--Bill

Paper on Marquette from the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2010):

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/2109.pdf

--Bill

I have talked about it for months,now it will soon be a reality.Ben has straightened me out quite well,thank you,on just what the place we are stuck in is like. Still interesting science
can be done here,I would think.
What will it mean if Mars has a solid or liquid core?
Joe