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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 09:47 PM
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Incredible new photo from Mars "Looks like trees."


According to Candy Hansen, a member of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) team at the University of Arizona, this new image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

More:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-tree-photo-illusion-100113.html
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 09:51 PM
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1. "My God, it's full of trees."
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 09:52 PM
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3. LOL!
:lol:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:25 PM
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12. There are a brazilian trees there!!
Ummm. How many is that!
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:44 PM
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26. Nice one!
:thumbsup:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 09:52 PM
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2. That's a photo of strawberry chocolate chip mint with vanilla stick shavings ice cream
And it's melting
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 12:08 PM
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30. . . . with a bunch of false eyelashes whipped in. Yummy! Mars Sundae.
Ben & Jerry, are you looking for a new flavor? How about a double scoop with "Space Junk", whipped cream and nuts?
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 09:53 PM
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4. Looks to me like clumps of hair on a big hairy monster. n/t
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BunkerHill24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 09:55 PM
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5. You could easily mistaken it with the Wahabi desert
That's amazing view. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Frank Booth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:03 PM
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6. I wonder if this is where the Mars Bigfoot dwells.
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Kokonoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:03 PM
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7. Its oil.
:-)
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:11 PM
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8. Maybe it's Maybelline
Looks like thick, lush eyelashes to me.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:13 PM
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9. Looks otherworldly.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:44 PM
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16. Imagine that! (nt)
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:23 PM
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10. Wow!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:25 PM
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11. WOW that's a keeper
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:27 PM
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13. No, those look like dunes.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:32 PM
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14. Are the trees growing next to the canals?
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:43 PM
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15. Asparagus grows on Mars!
MMMmmmmm asparagus...

Where's the butter?
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Mendocino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:47 PM
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17. It's a closeup of
Rush Limbaugh's pimply ass.
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The Midway Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:50 PM
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18. Shouldn't the last part of the last sentence read:
"due carbon dioxide frost SUBLIMATION", rather than evaporation? CO2 frost sublimates.


Awesome photos!
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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:53 PM
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19. I suggest we send a spaceship to investigate
I can think of a few people who should be on that spaceship. }(
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 10:54 PM
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20. The trees only grow at the base of the dunes where there is more water. nt
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:12 PM
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21. Hell, I've got the same thing on my back.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:16 PM
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22. collapsed material my ass--they cast shadows...
(donning skeptic and acid resistant raincoat)

Thar They Blow!
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:18 PM
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23. zoom in
I think that the blur that looks like shadows is really just a band of reddish material.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:28 PM
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24. you make great sense--normally I'd be relieved to have that as an explanation.
but I am already lost to rational appeals about Mars. I don't know what's up there
but I know it's not what we're being told.

This lunatic is worth a glance for the open-minded--he's spent the last ten years analyzing
extant NASA imagery:

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/

that link will dig me even deeper into the twilight, I'm sure...don't follow it if you are a rock-hard rationalist. It'll make you mad.

The current pic in the OP is outstanding.
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 11:41 PM
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25. pictures of martian fossils :)
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_016022_1420

To claim any of this is biological seems really just conjecture.

I visited his site, some interesting images, but if he were serious his site's background would be white. :+

cheers!
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 01:15 AM
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29. oooh, I like that one
almost Christmas-y in a grandma-took-all-my-acid kind of way.



Thanks!
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 12:00 AM
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27. Incredible image
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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 01:09 AM
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28. Looks like a micrograph of a weird skin condition.
Doesn't fucking look like trees.
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