http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/061117victoriacrater.htm. Victoria Crater on Mars
Nov 17, 2006
Sharply scalloped walls, together with cleanly cut ridges and valleys on its floor, make Mars’ Victoria crater an ideal test of the electric discharge model of crater formation.
The image above was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows “Victoria crater,” whose features can only deepen the growing mysteries of cratering patterns on Mars. It certainly does not look anything like the effect of an impact event, but that is the interpretation given it by NASA. The NASA release, though referring to “a distinctive scalloped shape to its rim,” can only explain this remarkable configuration in terms of “erosion and downhill movement of crater wall material.”
But look at the high-resolution image here. The required debris along the base of the cliffs is simply not there. Direct observation suggests that the sharply scalloped walls are a pristine record of the original causative event....
HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE (huge)
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08813.jpg
Thanks Fred Nerks!
