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Originally Posted by Chris1617
Hi Sunnyrap,
Not that I wish to be a killjoy, but:
After checking this out it is pretty obvious these are just digital patterns arising from the digital nature of the photograph on the computer. This is a common, though not universal effect. The rigid nature of the straight lines are a giveaway. They are also completely flat and uniform color only, and all basically the same tone and hue. The effect is enhanced by increasing contrast as was done here.
If they were thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years old they would be very badly worn. Present-day cities? Methinks not.
Perhaps the "general public" are not that sharp?
Don't take this to mean I don't think there was once a civilization on Mars. But IMO this is not any evidence of that. Mars is a very fascinating place, and I think we may well find some very interesting things there in future decades and definitely in future generations.
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Totally agree with you Chris, the quality of
this image is very poor and is
perspective view. I'm surprised and now concerned that Marshall is backing this up and get the feeling that this guy is feeding out dis-info, bit disappointed tbh.
"The high resoluting stereo camera's (HRSC) task is the mapping of most of the Martian surface. The resolution is 10 meters / pixel at an altitude of 250 km (point of closest approach to Mars)."
For one thing there are no shadows whatsoever in the area in question, now go North West directly and in the big open plain there is a small patch of what looks like waves, the terrain here is far less severe yet you can still see the shadows they cast. The whole map is covered in these lines including the hills.
Sorry Sunny, I'd love to see and believe it too but this is just digital imaging at its worst imho. For more info on the camera in question and better image quality check
here.
...now back on track, apologies for hijacking the thread Norval and Gale.
I'm very interested in the work you have done re: crater chains, it is all new to me and I'm just about to look at your website I just googled to find out more. Thankyou for bringing it to our attention.
Peace
