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To: Swordmaker

Mars ice boulders are knon to be between 18 and 30 meters in width and I was joking.


21 posted on 02/24/2008 11:37:10 AM PST by Soliton
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To: Soliton
Mars ice boulders are knon to be between 18 and 30 meters in width and I was joking.

I figured that... but except for accounting for where the ice boulders came from, it's not a bad theory that would explain the appearance of the channels/furrows and the disappearance of whatever created them. That's why I thought about it some more... and investigated the size of the channels. By the way, my estimate on the size is based on counting the pixels across the channels on the full size, raw photo... and using NASA's 2.9 to 4 meters/pixel resolution they give for the two raw photos published.

22 posted on 02/24/2008 1:23:33 PM PST by Swordmaker (We can fix this, but you're gonna need a butter knife, a roll of duct tape, and a car battery.)
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