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		By: Robert Zimmerman		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-martian-polliwog/#comment-1099970&quot;&gt;Max&lt;/a&gt;.

Max: That massive flow could be lava but I think it is almost certainly glacial, and likely ice buried under a several feet thick layer of debris to protect it. Remember, this is at 34 degrees south latitude, where such glacial features appear quite common.

Make sure you look at the context image on the main image page for this cool image. Make sure also that you both zoom in and out to get a sense of the entire surrounding terrain. This location is not only at the right latitude, it is also at a relatively high elevation for the cratered highlands, increasing the likelihood that the glacial ice here is still present.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-martian-polliwog/#comment-1099970">Max</a>.</p>
<p>Max: That massive flow could be lava but I think it is almost certainly glacial, and likely ice buried under a several feet thick layer of debris to protect it. Remember, this is at 34 degrees south latitude, where such glacial features appear quite common.</p>
<p>Make sure you look at the context image on the main image page for this cool image. Make sure also that you both zoom in and out to get a sense of the entire surrounding terrain. This location is not only at the right latitude, it is also at a relatively high elevation for the cratered highlands, increasing the likelihood that the glacial ice here is still present.</p>
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		By: Max		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just an amateur&#039;s observation, the overview larger picture tells a more complete story. 
    The northern/top part of the strip shows a massive mountain flow of material, (lava?) probably immense in size. Below it appears to be the remains of a river channel where melting material squeezed out of the surface, flowed away between the craters eventually breaching and filling. The Sandy river/crusty material is more reflective giving a white reflective appearance.
   As the material built up, the flow that went around the craters began flowing through them filling them up as evidence by the swirl pattern, like a vortex, in the large crater that received the blunt of the flow. Then exited on the right side lowest section. The tad pole crater next to it did not receive the full flow but has the markings of the crater wall collapsing creating the appearance of a bowl of cereal. Apparently the crater wall is not as dense as the flowing material that filled the crater.  

  Just below it there&#039;s another crater that had a wall collapse (south side) and it drifted across the crater and is still visible. Not as much liquid sediment material breached into the crater by evidence of the higher walls.
     Below that, just outside of the picture is a large violent impact crater that has ejector markings radiating lines from the right side of the picture to the left which looks beautiful and fascinating. 

    On the original extreme close-up tadpole picture, there are numerous circle shadows in the landscape at top (with drainage channels flowing out of them) and mostly bottom of the picture. Are these windows? Some of them are just shadows by evidence of the brightness on one side but the others look like caves. If water evaporate from beneath the surface, old ice fields like this could be very dangerous to cross having voids beneath them.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just an amateur&#8217;s observation, the overview larger picture tells a more complete story.<br />
    The northern/top part of the strip shows a massive mountain flow of material, (lava?) probably immense in size. Below it appears to be the remains of a river channel where melting material squeezed out of the surface, flowed away between the craters eventually breaching and filling. The Sandy river/crusty material is more reflective giving a white reflective appearance.<br />
   As the material built up, the flow that went around the craters began flowing through them filling them up as evidence by the swirl pattern, like a vortex, in the large crater that received the blunt of the flow. Then exited on the right side lowest section. The tad pole crater next to it did not receive the full flow but has the markings of the crater wall collapsing creating the appearance of a bowl of cereal. Apparently the crater wall is not as dense as the flowing material that filled the crater.  </p>
<p>  Just below it there&#8217;s another crater that had a wall collapse (south side) and it drifted across the crater and is still visible. Not as much liquid sediment material breached into the crater by evidence of the higher walls.<br />
     Below that, just outside of the picture is a large violent impact crater that has ejector markings radiating lines from the right side of the picture to the left which looks beautiful and fascinating. </p>
<p>    On the original extreme close-up tadpole picture, there are numerous circle shadows in the landscape at top (with drainage channels flowing out of them) and mostly bottom of the picture. Are these windows? Some of them are just shadows by evidence of the brightness on one side but the others look like caves. If water evaporate from beneath the surface, old ice fields like this could be very dangerous to cross having voids beneath them.</p>
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		By: Patrick Underwood		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Underwood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What it looks like, is some sort of hibernating Thing from an H. P. Lovecraft story.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What it looks like, is some sort of hibernating Thing from an H. P. Lovecraft story.</p>
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		By: Lee Stevenson		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Stevenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unrelated to the topic, but I enjoy that the lighting in this pic means the entirety of the crater walls are visible.  Those are no gentle slopes, but some almost vertical cliffs... It would be something to see to stand at the bottom and look up! And scary as hell to look over and down!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unrelated to the topic, but I enjoy that the lighting in this pic means the entirety of the crater walls are visible.  Those are no gentle slopes, but some almost vertical cliffs&#8230; It would be something to see to stand at the bottom and look up! And scary as hell to look over and down!</p>
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