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Posted by: Redpaw Mar 24 2004, 08:19 PM

I was surfing through the Mars uploaded pictures and I came across the newer Images that were taken from the satellitte currently orbiting Mars, I saw this and not even NASA or JPL has an explanation.

Wind would not make it round, Water would have eroded the crater and the sphere also.....
I'm thinking it has to be a Crytalline Structure or Metallic Ore....Pyrite nuggets are hexadecimal & Octahedral shaped so what is this?

Original Image found here:http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/m15012/m1501228a.jpg

Posted by: Coalbunny Mar 24 2004, 09:53 PM

Too many details that you left out. What is the angle of the pic? What is the approximate size of the target? What is the distance from the camera to the target?

Without those everything is speculation.
Carl

Posted by: gold_tutor Mar 24 2004, 10:16 PM

Aw, Redpaw...that's TOOOOOOOOO easy!!!

That's Tiger Wood's second shot on the 13th at Forest Hills 2 weeks ago!!!

Posted by: Redpaw Mar 24 2004, 11:55 PM

A width of 38 pixels at 4.47m per pixel yields a diameter of 169.86 meters or 557.28 feet! The magnitude of scale becomes apparent for those of you who have visited the dome at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center which spans a mere 265 feet in diameter!

mars.datatable ( 54.88K ) : 0

Posted by: gold_tutor Mar 25 2004, 10:37 PM

Gotta say, Redpaw, I enlarged it and it STILL looks like Tiger Woods' lost golfball... B)

Posted by: Redpaw Mar 25 2004, 10:47 PM

baffled......

man I just want to know......

something that big strinking a planet would have created a much bigger crater than what it is sitting in.....did it strike elsewhere and roll off and into this divot?

Titanium?..... If it was metallic I would think it would shine a little more like the heatshield did at the Bonneville Crater on mars from the initial pictures released from Spirit Rover....unless it was covered in a thin layer of dust.

and those mostly uniform divots upon it surface aren't any help.....

I figured Gold Tutor would have said..."No, Dave that's just a blah blah blah and your being fooled by the reflection and refraction of the light"

Posted by: Sammy316 Mar 25 2004, 10:51 PM

Looks like a nose to me.

Posted by: Coalbunny Mar 26 2004, 07:43 AM

Redpaw, I am not joking when I say that this is quite possibly an artificially-constructed structure. Look at the size, look at the external design, look at the shape. The design, using tetrahedrons as this appeasrs to use, is renowned for excelling at stress management. The shape, the same thing- the circle is the most stable shape known.

I'm not joking Redpaw. Sounds far fetched? Perhaps. But how realis that pic? My theory is just as real as the pic you provided. Is it really an artificial structure? Guess we'll soon find out. Maybe it's not.
Carl

Posted by: TWA Mar 26 2004, 08:20 AM

For what its worth by looking at the craters edge, it looks as if when this thing hit the surface may have been muddy.

The lower edge of this crater seems to have held up.

As when this object hit it would have also generated heat therefore drying out the mud and retaing shape.

But then again this is only my thoughts.

TWA

Posted by: sgaolson Mar 26 2004, 09:11 AM

Your going to need a sand wedgr to get out of there......
Tutor I'm with you. I've been in enough traps at enough golf courses to know what one looks like.
:(

Posted by: Mrs.CP Mar 26 2004, 12:28 PM

Garry and Megan are on the right track. :D But I think its something much bigger! :o
Here is a link to some examples of what Dan and I think it is...........
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/craters/crater_index.shtml

What do you think? ;) :)

Posted by: Johnny Mar 26 2004, 03:20 PM

Howdy All,
Geeze this is a tough one.... perhaps Archangle Gabriel is practicing with new bismuth shot in his shotgun... more ecologically correct... but doesn't carry as well as the old standard iron metorites.
Happy Trails,
Johnny

Posted by: sgaolson Mar 26 2004, 03:29 PM

Denise, is that from when one of the Apollo guys used a 9 iron on the moon?

Posted by: El Dorado Apr 26 2004, 08:26 PM

Certainly looks like an intelligent made structure with a windbreak around it and a cupola tyoe entrance????.

Posted by: coargonaut May 6 2004, 08:42 PM

The Rocket Scientist Checks IN....

Looks like a view down from the bridge over the Tijuana River, after the wind blew my new sombrero off....

Ed

Posted by: jmann May 6 2004, 09:01 PM

I think Sammy's right. Looks more and more like a schnaws wit that rino stuff :P :P :P jmann

Posted by: Si_NM Jun 2 2004, 10:21 AM

The answer might be simpler than you think. Have you ever seen a slow motion video of a drop of milk hitting a dish of milk? First you get a crater in the pool of milk. Then comes some ejecta around the perimeter of the crater. Lastly from the center of the crater rises a vertical column of milk as a small rebound effect happens. Translated to the rock of the planet and an incoming meteoric imapct, the structure inside the crater is likely a truncated rebound mound. The milk soon returns to being a flat surface being a liquid,, but the rock freezes in shape, retaining the crater and rebound mound, Whether a rebound mound forms at all and remains is likely tied to the rock dynamics of the underlying strata.
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This stuff is fun,, Si_NM

Posted by: russau Jun 2 2004, 05:07 PM

does anyone have the urge to eat some cookies now??haha

Posted by: Coalbunny Jun 2 2004, 06:18 PM

Si, with all them fancy terms, you make it sound like a woman giving birth.....<shivers> :o
Carl