https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 19:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/#comment-1273258 Thu, 13 Jan 2022 01:20:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81748#comment-1273258 If you look at the full picture you can see it’s looks like it’s been disassembling for a while. Just visualize those rocks falling and rolling in slow motion with no air to hold dust.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/#comment-1273188 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:11:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81748#comment-1273188 If it were on Earth, I’d say it looks like it’s barely holding together. But at 0.38 g who knows how long it will last.
It makes me wonder what kind of wonders we’ll find when cameras on rovers, helicopters or carried by humans finally get down in Valles Marineris.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/#comment-1273146 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:49:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81748#comment-1273146 Curious how the formation starts to lean in the first place. Or formed like that? Perhaps a softer core (ice?) surrounded by rock/dust, that slumps after formation? How formed in the first place? A lot going on here. We will not know until someone inspects it.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/#comment-1273064 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:19:29 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81748#comment-1273064 “ No, it’s a mount! “
– – – Firesign Theatre

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/#comment-1273047 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:32:46 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81748#comment-1273047 She’s a real butte!

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-butte-on-mars/#comment-1272924 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 20:01:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81748#comment-1272924 It’s obvious an ancient sphinx!! ( Call that ‘face on Mars” guy and ask him!
But seriously, you are wonderfully correct Bob, Mars is alien, and thus, so is it’s geology. Usual earth rules do not apply.
How as a (very) amateur geologist I would love to go and have a run of my fingers and hammer thru those bedding layers, are there inclusions? Difference in grain sizes? Are they annual, every 11 years, or random? Volcanic, atmospheric or influenced by water? This stuff inspires me!
And Bob, I understand how you must be yearning to get your ropes, crampons and helmet lamps out and get your ass down one of those deep pits that you highlight from time to time…. What do caves look like at 1/3rd gravity? And what could live down there?
Excuse me babbling… Currently double vaccinated, and enjoying a bought of the latest wutang flu. A bit feverish, and good cold-like symptoms. I doubt if I will die tho… I also doubt I will bother with the booster.

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