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#1 2005-04-01 12:10:26

Palomar
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Re: Earth's Richat Structure

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021028.html]What in tarnation...

*50 km in diameter in Saharan Desert.  Isn't believed to be a volcano, so I didn't put this in the "Active Terran Volcanoes" thread. 

One of the main mysteries is why it's so circular in appearance. 

Very striking.  :-\

--Cindy


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)

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#2 2005-04-01 14:18:49

SpaceNut
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Re: Earth's Richat Structure

It looks more like an open strip mining operation.

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#3 2005-04-01 16:32:57

Grypd
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Re: Earth's Richat Structure

Either that or a structural representation of an asteroid impact

or it was a lake that has dried and slowly formed such a structure


Chan eil mi aig a bheil ùidh ann an gleidheadh an status quo; Tha mi airson cur às e.

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