[meteorite-list] Strange Martian Surface Feature

From: Treiman, Allan <Treiman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:25 2004
Message-ID: <9CBE44BF7DE9D511960300500424D7D011207A_at_cassnt2>

Well, I'd go with the sand dunes, or more probably
dust dunes. With wind channeled into those cracks,
it seems no great stretch of imagination to think
that sand dunes might form. Hoagland has been reading
Dune too much, or perhaps Moving Mars with its silica-
based martian life.
   FWIW
   Allan

Allan H. Treiman
Lunar and Planetary Institute
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sterling K. Webb [mailto:kelly_at_bhil.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:46 PM
To: Meteorite List
Subject: [meteorite-list] Strange Martian Surface Feature


Hi, List,

    Ok, it's a little off topic, but... A friend of mine belongs
to a group one of whom found the following site displaying an
image of a Martian surface feature:
<http://www.enterprisemission.com/samp5.htm>
    This site is one maintained by a notorious whacko and
fringe-theorist, Hoagland, the author of Monuments of Mars, so I
told them he was a nutcase; forget it. And they properly came
back me with "Forget about the nutcase; what the Hell is this?"
And I didn't have a good answer. In fact, I don't think I've got
any answer. Enigmatic is the best description I could come up
with and that's just a word for an excuse.
    Since the link to the original Mars Observer Narrow Angle
Camera image on the Hoagland site is broken, here's the correct
link for those that want to puzzle over it in greater detail:
<http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/images/M0400291.html>
    Any ideas? What the Hell is this?

Sterling K. Webb


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