Planet Four Talk

interestig clip from the 'starfish' terrain area

  • p.titchin by p.titchin

    Usually these clips show formed polygonal 'cracked terrain like dried out reservoirs. This apears to show spider like channels off longer straight channels which hint at the eventual 'tesselated' appearance. I wonder iif this image is important in showing how these polygonal channels form. It is certainly an odd and interesting "half way house". Rare!!#pete.

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

    Hi,

    My impression from Candy Hansen is that spiders and other araneiform features exploit whatever weaknesses there are already in the ground to form, so more likely the polygonal cracks came first.

    Cheers,

    ~Meg

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