space chimney

by kevski81

Saw this, looks too perfectly formed to be natural! What could it be?

Posted January 9, 2013 11:13 PM

by JellyMonster

Paul, it looks like the base is octagonal rather than hexagonal.

Posted January 14, 2013 3:47 PM

by Paul_Johnson

True! Good geometry Jelly!

Posted January 14, 2013 6:06 PM

by JellyMonster

I like shapes. Have the scientists come up with any explanation yet?

Posted January 15, 2013 6:07 PM

by Paul_Johnson

I think I'm in their bad books for bantering them ......no answer, I thionk this anomaly is the most important find of the lot. If its a hole, then wow. If it's a chimney (which thanks to you, it doesnt appear to be....! lol) then ....wow.

It's a wow picture, whatever it is.

Posted January 15, 2013 6:13 PM

by JellyMonster

I still think a Dalek was the best answer. Do they have an octagonal base?

Posted January 15, 2013 9:42 PM

by Paul_Johnson

Hexagonal, I think......lol

Posted January 15, 2013 9:43 PM

by Plenum

Copy-paste the image and blow the image up. Where's the sun coming from? To me, the sun is more or less coming from about 4 or 5:00 point, right, the south-east? If it were a chimney, we would see a shadow with a dark and definite extention, from the base up and away from the center extending towards 22:00. This is a pit, like a sinkhole, of some sort because the shadow comes from 4 or 5:00 and extends inwards towards the center of the pit. Might be wrong, but that's what my eye says... What fun to be looking at these images!

Posted January 18, 2013 7:23 PM

by JellyMonster

Yes, some sort of cavity but it is still weird. The octagonal base can't be natural surely, although not all of it can be seen.

Posted January 18, 2013 9:03 PM

by jules

Well this is interesting! Nice find. Here is a rotated and enlarged version which helps me to see the negative features. Hopefully this will work for others too. I see what Planum describes - though bear in mind that the shadow on the pit / crater floor is now rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise.
enter image description here

Hope a scientist drops by soon!

Posted January 18, 2013 11:03 PM

by JellyMonster in response to jules's comment.

Here's a couple more super close ups. The first image has been rotated through 180 degrees. The second one has been negated plus a few colour/histogram edits. What the hell is it... where is Brian Cox when you need him? It's looking more and more like an incense cone (in a depression)!

Inverted

Negated

Posted January 19, 2013 9:11 AM

by michaelaye scientist in response to Plenum's comment.

i just played around with this image and realised something: as we know that the sun coms from above (in this rotation), we can be sure that the inner circular feature is not a dome either, because it would throw a shadow on the icy illuminated lower side walls of the depression. One thing that maybe could explain something like this is a collapsed Pingo (Search for "collapsed pingo" with Google Images. It is not a very clear possibility for me, also I'm not familiar with the precise mechanisms required for it, but I know that people keep saying that in principle Pingos could be possible on Mars.

Posted January 19, 2013 10:22 AM

by Paul_Johnson

Just read about pingos, the bottom image on wiki has starting similarities to this. Utterly fascinating.

Posted January 19, 2013 11:18 AM

by jules

I second that. And an image search on "collapsed pingo" shows many more images resembling this one.

Posted January 19, 2013 11:51 PM

by Wounded_Knee

Isnt Pingo a plasticine Penguin?

Posted January 20, 2013 12:58 AM

by JellyMonster

You mean Pingu!

I have yet to see a collapsed pingo with an octagonal base. The other thing is that the anomaly seems to be a one off.

Posted January 20, 2013 11:36 AM

by jules in response to JellyMonster's comment.

The search is on...!

Posted January 20, 2013 2:46 PM

by Ian_Mason

Hey, I just found this & thought i'd stick it on here just incase it might be Pingu's mate? (similar smaller feature perhaps, or less magnified?)

enter image description here

Posted January 20, 2013 4:16 PM

by Paul_Johnson

Ian, I reckon thats a boulder with some dark material next to it.....it looks similar to the 'anomaly' at first, but I have come to think it is a boulder.

What does everyone else think???

Posted January 20, 2013 6:26 PM

by JellyMonster

Possibly a square feature with some sort of rock formation surrounding it. The image has been inverted.

Square anomaly

Posted January 20, 2013 7:35 PM

by Paul_Johnson

Jelly you really are an image Jedi !

Square! That's unusual!!! lol

Another 'anomoly' --I love that word.....

anomoly.....

an om o ly.....

cool pic dude, well done as ever, and thanks.

Posted January 20, 2013 7:49 PM

by Paul_Johnson

I spelled it wrong, what a dufus!

ANOMALY...

anomaly, anomaly, anomaly!

Posted January 20, 2013 7:51 PM

by Paul_Johnson

So now we have an octagonal anomaly, and a square anomaly.....whats next?

Posted January 20, 2013 7:53 PM

by JellyMonster

Dufus... not heard that word in a while!

So now we have an octagonal anomaly, and a square anomaly.....whats next?

Don't forget my irregular shape with a hole in it!

Posted January 20, 2013 8:02 PM

by wassock moderator

Seems the scientists have been busy with this one http://blog.planetfour.org/?s=chimney

Posted April 5, 2013 8:26 AM

by JellyMonster in response to wassock's comment.

Thanks for the link wassock - I forgot about the blog... still looks odd though. I have spun the black and white high resolution image through 180 and added a little colour.

![Pingo] (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/hoofesd8q6vg8ge/Pingo.jpg)

Posted April 5, 2013 1:56 PM

by wassock moderator

Looks like a bit of an egg box, or the eye of some scaly beastie

Posted April 10, 2013 7:26 PM

by JellyMonster in response to wassock's comment.

Well it is certainly not a Dalek anymore (or space chimney) 😦.

Posted April 10, 2013 8:34 PM

by jaroslavp

Looks like something exploded and ground around the explosion fell down. Something like underground nuclear test.

Posted June 26, 2013 9:59 AM