Emissions from fault lines?
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susanteper
Emissions that appear to be coming from cracks or fault lines. Had a similar image but coming from the red pillow-like surface (similar to photo featured on Stargazing Live), but computer crashed so lost the image before I'd classified it.
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Portyankina
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It's ok, do not feel too bad about it. If we'll have enough participation we'll show same image to different users, so that if one misses some feature, somebody else will get it.
Anya
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Kitharode
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in response to susanteper's comment.
Hi. I'm a fan of these features myself (no pun intended). There's a discussion somewhere that tells why some of these lines form into hexagons - I don't remember exactly where the discussion was and it was a bit technical at times.
I've got my own ideas about some of these lines, especially some curved ones, but nothing definate yet. Help yourself to a tour of my collections: http://talk.planetfour.org/#/collections/CPFS00005h ... Good hunting.
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Kitharode
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PS. I may have found your red pillow: http://talk.planetfour.org/#/boards/BPF0000002/discussions/DPF0000018
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nick.coram
Looks like cracked ice. When pressure builds up underneath a sheet of ice and lifting it, then the ice shattering like toughened glass creating a network of liner and curved cracks. Similar thing happens in frozen lakes, rivers and even attic seas when the pressure of water builds up underneath and flexes the frozen surface it fractures in to an irregular pattern like this. In this case it is probably co2 gas building up underneath a CO2 ice surface and lifting it.
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