Landscape on Mars

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   Hunt

   August 29, 2012 at 5:03 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Looks strangely similar to foothills in California. Wouldn’t it be funny to see a development of McMansions there.

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   Ophelia Benson

   August 29, 2012 at 5:46 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   No, it wouldn’t!

   A few tasteful cabins, now…

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   Vall

   August 29, 2012 at 6:26 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Looks like they landed on the set for “Capricorn One.” The first thing that I thought of was the drive between Phoenix and L.A.

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   Jafafa Hots

   August 30, 2012 at 12:10 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   And as far as I understand it, Mount Sharp is actually just the one bump in the center of the photo near the top… the beginning of the “foothills,” essentially.

   There was an image elsewhere (which I can’t find) which has a close up of that bump, and an inset close-up of the little ridge on the bottom edge of that bump which looks like a white streak with a dark streak underneath it.

   In that close up of a close up, sitting on that little whitish ridge is a black dot. The black dot is a boulder roughly the size of the car-sized rover.

   So that gives some perspective – that smallish bump in the photo is a mountain that at this zoom level the rover would be invisible sitting atop.

   It’s hard to tell from that other photo for sure, but it also appears then that there is a cliff on that ridge above Mount Sharp that has a drop of many hundreds if not thousands of feet.

   Unless I completely misinterpreted things.

   I can’t find the link, but I’m prety sure I found it somehow originally through Nasawatch.com

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   Jafafa Hots

   August 30, 2012 at 12:11 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Hmm. Come to think of it, there is another photo of mount sharp that seems to contradict what I said above, because it seems to show it alone without surrounding mountains.

   But the rover/scale thing was correct though.

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   F

   August 30, 2012 at 12:49 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Jafafa Hots, was this your card?

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   davidmc

   August 30, 2012 at 1:04 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Not sure if if this will work for those outside the UK, but if it does you might like it

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006

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   bcoppola

   August 30, 2012 at 7:54 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   #7 davidmc: Works in the US. Yes, like it, thanks!

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   Jafafa Hots

   August 30, 2012 at 6:55 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   F, yep, that’s the pic I was talking about!

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