Planet Four Talk

This is unclear anyone see anything?

  • ThePhoenixFire by ThePhoenixFire

    Can anyone see anything on this?

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  • p.titchin by p.titchin

    Hi TPF, a beautiful image of the "Finger Lake" area of the Mars southern pole showing great # "spiders"~ Look up on the blogs on this site, or the old tutorial if you don't know these terms, or just google. The sunlight from lower left is illuminating the ice left in these spider channels, showing them up as a vaguely arachnoid (hence the nickname -spiders) channel system, caused by the blasting out of surface grit under the icecap when the CO2 sublimates in Spring and the pressure vents through a weakness in the icecap. Hope this helps. , Good to see you on the site- so much to see- ~pete.

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