NASA finds big wart on Mars landscape

geek.com ^ | Posted on December 5, 2014 | James Plafke

[BenLurkin]

The textured area, located in the Athabasca region of Mars, measures in at around 1.2 miles wide, and is plopped right in the middle of a landscape of smooth lava flows. Considering the lava flow landscape, NASA scientists theorize that volcanoes played a part in the creation of the wart, offering up the possibility that lava flowed beneath a mound of ice and pushed it up — the unique texture being created when the ice melted.

[BenLurkin]

That's a wart on Mars, guys -- not on Uranus. Okay?

[dfwgator]

Looks just like Helen Thomas.

[MeshugeMikey]

leftovers from a pre columbian WAFFLE HOUSE ??

[Olog-hai]

Don’t insult the wart. We just got there.

[Ken H]

— the unique texture being created when the ice melted.

Aha! Global warming.

[dfwgator]

Should have brought an industrial size vat of Compound W.

[tet68]

Tell the Wart to get those snotties up here with
the our drinks.

[Alex Murphy]

It’s the remnants of a Martian soufflé that’s fallen.

[Gefn]

Mars Ping!

[Vermont Lt]

Somewhere Mars’ mother is saying, “He never stopped picking at that damned thing. Now it’s a scar.”

[Verginius Rufus]

When I was a kid I remember being told that toads caused warts.

So here we have evidence for life on Mars--a wart caused by a giant toad. Unfortunately, probably extinct by now.

[Slings and Arrows]

A rocket full of salicylic acid and duct tape is on the way!

[C210N]

Well, can’t say i ever saw the two in the same room together.

[samtheman]

Maybe ancient Martians worshipped warts.

[TomGuy]

Geeez.

It is a Martian hole cover.

[a fool in paradise]

Not a PING

[laplata]

Looks just like Helen Thomas.

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Or a half dollar area of one of Hitlery’s legs.

[bobby.223]

Doc: “Mr. Obama...your labs came back and I’m afraid I have rather bad news. Yes, we will let Reggie know also.....”

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like a giant old Roman coin.

[BenLurkin]

An ancient coin was my first thought as well.