Planet Four Talk

Here be Spiders (or be there?)

  • wassock by wassock moderator

    Fresh up on the Hi Rise page is http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_047487_1005

    Please go take a close look and see if these are spiders as per the strict 'Araneiform' definition?

    Here's a bit of the image:

    enter image description here

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  • p.titchin by p.titchin in response to wassock's comment.

    hi. shades of thought on 'the heart of the matter' 😉 #pete.

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  • wassock by wassock moderator

    Persacerly. This looks like the heart area but I'must seeing the form of the 'spiders' here as very different to those at the heart. Yet the islands of well defined channels which produce fans surounded by seas of less distinct channels is the same

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  • p.titchin by p.titchin in response to wassock's comment.

    All very strange. Also unusual, in muchof the HiRISE strip are what look very like pressure ridges in the ice.. ~pete.

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  • mschwamb by mschwamb scientist, translator

    Hi,

    It's great to see this discussion. The science team has been talking a lot about these image. We do think that it's spiders or rather a type of spider in the larger araneiform family. Previous HiRISE observations found these was variety amongst spiders and other channels similar to spiders but without the pit, as I'm sure you'll now experts way more than the science team is on these channel types after seeing so many of those features in the P4 images. Definitely the central pit is not as resolved in this case. Great to see your thoughts on this.

    Cheers,

    ~Meg

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