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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: "Brain Crater" - ...MGS

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040519.html]Weird

I'm quite sure I've not seen this mondo-bizarro image before (and date of release not given).  I also can't find a thread devoted to Mars Global Surveyor (which took the pic) in this folder -- via Search "from the beginning" -- so started this afresh.

--Cindy

::EDIT::  "The light colored region surrounding the brain-textured region is likely sand dunes sculpted by winds."

*I wonder how high the "walls" surrounding the interior of the crater are, though.  But yeah, ripples there definitely.

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

atomoid

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From: Santa Cruz, CA

Registered: 2004-02-13

Posts: 252

Re: "Brain Crater" - ...MGS

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ … .gif]heres the "permanent" link.

and hey! look at http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/brains_lores.jpg]Bad Astronomy today

There's even an apparent brain-stem descending under Mars surface at the bottom and a frontal lobe at right "growing" above the surrounding terrain.

This can only mean one thing: Mars has become aware of our rover telepresence and to ascertain threat level, its brain has begun to evolve at a frightening pace!!

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"I think it would be a good idea". - [url=http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mahatma_Gandhi/]Mahatma Gandhi[/url], when asked what he thought of Western civilization.

chaosman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2004-02-22

Posts: 39

Re: "Brain Crater" - ...MGS

http://themis.la.asu.edu/fullimages/20040422a.jpg

even better...