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Perfection!

 

Blue sky. Chihuahua desert in West Texas.

 

• Title Perspective view of Korolev crater
• Released 20/12/2018 11:00 am
• Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
• Description
  This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Korolev crater, an 82-kilometre-across feature found in the northern lowlands of Mars.
  
  This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data gathered over orbits 18042 (captured on 4 April 2018), 5726, 5692, 5654, and 1412. The crater itself is centred at 165° E, 73° N on the martian surface. The image has aresolution of roughly 21 metres per pixel.
  
  This image was created using data from the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The nadir channel is aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, as if looking straight down at the surface.
  
  
• Id 412947
  

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Jolly what's missing is water!

 

Sam Sam - worth nmentioning that the Korolev crater is full of ice.
The cold carbon dioxide atmosphere trapped by the craters rim, keeps the ice intact.
I had no idea there was surface ice on Mars at all - an amazing photo!

 

I didn't know that either until I saw that photo on Reddit. (the photo is an "oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data" so maybe that means Photoshop in big words) I thought it was all theoretical, that maybe it was there, maybe deep underground. Not a frozen lake surrounded by snow.
It turns out I just don't get out enough.
Water on Mars - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars

 

Jolly Amaranto Junior Member
Blue sky. Chihuahua desert in West Texas.

bhnautika Senior Member
New Jolly what's missing is water!

The Chihuahua desert photo looks like a horseshoe bend in a river that is out of site down in the canyon.

Where is the lake photo from?

 

The Mars photo is almost certainly not a real photo - generated from other data and colorized like the old WW1 photos.
With all the sand storms, how much you want to bet the "ice" is not white?

It would be really nice if the artists or scientists or photoshoppers would just say so - and not try to fool us.
Kind of like old "pictures" of dinosaurs.

 

The Rio Grande River was a good number of miles behind me. If I turned around, this was the view. The mountain range in the background is Mexico. The river runs along in front of it. These photos are from Big Bend Ranch State Park along the Rancherias Loop Trail.

 

SamSam not a lake, ocean in a remote part of the Kimberly in northern western Australia ( buccaneer archipelago region). Big tides,big rivers, wild and rugged country. Access by boat or aircraft only.

 

I like that sort of aridness with sharp, pokey things, dangerous little critters. The varieties of cactus and the way thorns are deployed on everything and how plants and everything adapt. Disappearing rivers. I use to spend time in AZ with relatives.
Drove a car from Las Vegas to Bullhead City, AZ. From the air it looked interesting, on the ground it was awesome desolation, but it kept getting even more and more awful and unnerving, too too much lunar and Mars landscape like with only person in the universe isolation. Absolutely nothing grew there. Total silence that made it seem like you could almost hear the heat, heat that made the Sun seem like an animal. Thinking about it, I probably should have brought some more water and a hat.

 

"If it doesn't bite, sting or stick in you, then it must be a rock." One of the most desolate, isolated places that I have ever back packed. Our group did not encounter another human for three days.

 

Current affairs...

 

Helen Duncan's 'ectoplasmic' 'phantoms.' Photgraphed in 1928 by Harvey Metcalfe:

 

A witch in a bottle. Pitt Rivers museum, Oxford.



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