Posted on 03/15/2007 2:14:24 PM PDT by blam
http://webster.aip.org/enews/physnews/1999/split/pnu432-3.htm
Physics News Update
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 432 (Story #3), June 7, 1999 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein
THE SURFACE OF MARS has been mapped to 13-meter precision, better than for some places on Earth. Laser light sent from and returning to the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveals that the southern hemisphere is one big highland (6 km higher) compared to the northern hemisphere. Surface water, if there was any, would have collected in the North, although there is not yet definitive proof of any boreal ocean. One thing that is known about the northern lowland: it is the flattest place in the solar system. The South's elevation is due at least in part to an immense amount of material raised during an ancient impact which fashioned a huge crater known as the Hellas basin. (Science, 28 May 1999.)
The main difference between the two shots is that in the earlier shot, "The Face" is made up of about three dozen pixels. The Face on Mars is indeed an artifact, but it is merely the artifact of the Viking orbiter camera resolution.
But nothing about cosmic collisions.
Heh... the atmosphere's too thin to carve, but apparently just thick enough (similar to Earth's at 40 miles altitude -- Everest is about six miles) to support a civilization. ;')
Excellent point. But, that was then, and this is now, and after the Martians built "the face", they migrated to Earth because Mars' atmosphere was being blown away by global warming caused by Martian activity.
:') That's precisely my point -- if the atmosphere has thinned out and destroyed the supposed civilization, how can Hoaxland claim that it was previously "too thin to carve"? As is generally the case, he's full of it.
And he has a sense of humor too.
However, as a taxpayer, I'm insulted that he wants NASA to drop everything to chase after his personal white whales.
I sometimes think he's a NASA plant to hype it's funding requests to they can hire even more astronauts to go crazy sitting around doing nothing for a decade or more.
:')
Here's a Catastrophism ping list topic. This one shows up at the top, but is the last of the ones I've pinged you two to. :')
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mgs_cydonia.html
That image shows straight lines and Bezier curves on a three-mile scale; Ma Nature don't do stuff like that.
Most interesting new photo from the neighborhood of Mars is the HIRISE image of Phobos:
In fact if you do a google search on just "phobos", that image is now the first item that turns up. That's right, real moons are supposed to be made out of dirt and green cheese and stuff like that which doesn't reflect light all over the place and can't be formed into planks like that. As Hoagland says, you can almost count the rivets.
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