Comments on: The alien buttes of Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Vladislaw https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/#comment-924065 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:28:43 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41239#comment-924065 On the sphinx enclosure in Egypt you can see wind erosion on different hardness levels of limestone. The erosion here reminds me of that. Hard layer then a soft layer, built up over time and then it finally gets exposed to wind weathering and they get defined.

]]> By: Alex https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/#comment-923829 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:56:16 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41239#comment-923829 Now, we need real paleontologist or at least geologist on site to look for fossils in these stratified deposits by splitting the layers step by step . This cannot be done by a robot.

]]> By: D K Rögnvald Williams https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/#comment-923817 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:07:51 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41239#comment-923817 The outcropping on the left shows extensive layering of rocks. I am struck by the almost uniform thickness of these slabs.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/#comment-923804 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 06:21:13 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41239#comment-923804 Your tax dollars *really* at work. Very nice stuff and thanks for posting it. Interesting fractures middle right. Really interesting to see wind eroded structures in a low-g environment. I’d pay money to see that . . . oh, wait.

]]> By: Ken Franks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/#comment-923709 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:25:54 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41239#comment-923709 In refference to the rather extensive and relatively thin outcroppings of strata in the image, I would expect a much more extensive debris field under them. This, however, does not appear to be the case. This is strictly an obsevation from an uneducated viewer of the dynamics of Martian geophysics. I would assume that this is due to the extremely slow nature of erosion on the Martian surface. As there is no liquid water erosion, the primary mechanism would have to be wind and any resulting atmospheric born substrate (not accounting for fracturing of rock due to extreme thermal conditions). The outcroppings, even with the low gravitational force, I would assume must be rather ridged and the interdispersed layers significantly softer to account for the degree of overhang.
Just sayin.
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]]> By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-alien-buttes-of-mars/#comment-923681 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:51:03 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41239#comment-923681 Wow! Hollywood couldn’t make this landscape up in the 1950s. It looks like a world smashed to pieces by a sledgehammer. And the protrusion at the far right looks unpossible. And there’s another one further away, about 1/6 of the image width from the right.

OT: Is there any hacker here who can help me find that crooked email deletion software? I’ve searched for bitchleech but the google doesn’t turn up with anything helpful. :~p

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