Planet Four Talk

Crater or Volcano ?

Subject: APF0000kqa

by lewisnorton

what on earth a big bottomless pit

Posted January 12, 2013 6:08 PM
by poplar11

impact through ice

Posted January 14, 2013 3:40 PM
by poplar11

this is relatively recent

Posted January 15, 2013 2:43 PM
by poplar11

is it one of the probes that didn't make it?

Posted January 15, 2013 2:46 PM
by Paul_Johnson

Wilson !!!!!!!

Posted January 15, 2013 6:56 PM
by Paul_Johnson

I think this was a fan, the material melted back into the ice, then the hole blew up again and made a blotch. v important pic

Posted January 15, 2013 6:58 PM
by michaelaye scientist

#halo

Posted January 16, 2013 12:59 PM
by michaelaye scientist

We call these halos.Our model idea for this is currently that only the outer blotch layers are thin enough to sink into the ice to clean it.

Posted January 16, 2013 1:01 PM
by 14int

#interesting geography at center of image

Posted February 3, 2013 12:32 PM
by leonie_van_vliet

crater like #halo, a sinkhole...

Posted October 24, 2014 3:43 PM