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An object this big would have made a much larger crater than this unless it were hollow.
[http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01228a.jpg]http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01228a.jpg
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looks like a puddle of sand in the crater, not the object that made the crater. you can make out some dune crests. i see many odd craters like this, some other ones have puddling with islands and peninsulas the sand being so black it looks like water from orbit, i heard some scientists comment they think it shops evidence of water puddling, not merely sand blowing around. i cant remember the url of the image but if i find it ill return to this thread and post it.
i think the 3D effect seen on the golfball here (making it look half-buried) is illusory due to dark sand area creating a false "terminator line" that happens to apporoximately match the sol shadow angle.
i dodnt find any other examples like this crater so its definately unusual, thats a good directory to browse at random, lots of intersting pics. here's abunch of other great pictures from that directory:
giant worms... [http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01228c.jpg]http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01228c.jpg
...and fossilized slug (partially unearthed): [http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01238b.jpg]http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01238b.jpg
martian megalithic writing (cyrillic or arabic?): [http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01242b.jpg]http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01242b.jpg
a maze: [http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01242a.jpg]http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01242a.jpg
dunno what this is: [http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01212a.jpg]http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/ … 01212a.jpg
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