Strange squiggly line?

• by renjean

  Any explanation for the long line at the left lower corner? Or is it just a plate fault line, or a dissipating fan.

  Posted July 13, 2015 8:41 AM

• by mschwamb scientist, translator in response to renjean's comment.

  Hi renjean,

  I'm not 100% sure. It looks like fan material following a surface channel. I'm going to ask the rest of the team during tomorrow science team telecon.

  Cheers,

  ~Meg

  Posted July 13, 2015 9:54 AM

• by mschwamb scientist, translator

  Asked the team. It's definitely not a plate fault line. It looks like it's a spider channel with either dust/dirt that has collected in it making it darker or the ice sheet (which is probably thin) at this point, follows the up and downs ad bumps and wiggles of the surface so the top of the ice sheet looks similar to the base, so it could then be there is a depression in the ice and the fan material brought up by the carbon dioxide geysers preferentially fills the slightly depression in the ice as the wind blows and since more particles accumulate there it gets dark like fans.

  Cheers,

  ~Meg

  Posted July 14, 2015 6:47 AM