A Spray of Volcanic Ejecta on Mars?

Behind the Black ^ | April 5, 2018 | Robert Zimmerman

[Voption]

"Time for some more weird Mars geology! Today the science team for the high resolution camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released its monthly batch of new images. There is a lot of interesting stuff buried therein...."

[PIF]

Some guy looking at hires photos and dreaming up an imaginative theory without any basis whatsoever.

[Voption]

I must respectfully object to your characterization.
Hardly “some guy...without any basis whatsoever.”

“Robert Zimmerman is an award-winning independent science journalist and historian who has written four books and innumerable articles on science, engineering, and the history of space exploration and technology for Science, Air & Space, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and a host of other publications. He also reports on space, science, and culture on his website, http://behindtheblack.com. He does not work for any aerospace company and has never received any money from NASA for his reporting.
His books include Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel (Joseph Henry Press), which won the American Astronautical Society’s Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award in 2003 as that year’s best space history for the general public. He also has written Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (Mountain Lake Press) and The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It (Princeton University Press). In 2000 he was co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award, given by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for Science Journalism, for his essay in The Sciences, “There She Blows,” on the 35-year-old astronomical mystery of gamma ray bursts.”

He also wrote: “The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries In Space.”

[BraveMan]

"All of my speculations here should be treated with great skepticism. I am no geologist. "

I'll run with that . . .

[robel]

Your “creative mind” is going into extreme realms. It’s probably just a flock of sheep.

[robel]

Your “creative mind” is going into extreme realms. It’s probably just a flock of sheep.

[dragnet2]

How do you think many scientist and astronomers etc., learn and discover things? Much of what they find or discover is gleaned from intense observations, comparing images over a period of time, etc., etc.

[freedumb2003]

Geothermal porn?

[ClearCase_guy]

Will this endanger the Marsbees?

[PIF]

Regardless - he’s just some guy to me. And he admits he has no basis but his imagination for his speculations.

[Zuse]

You mean experimenting with plasma discharge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ltmEMamX4w

[rktman]

Oh, I thought it was a clip from a stormy daniels flick. ;-)

[mindburglar]

That guy won the Nobel Prize for literature a couple of years ago.

Everybody must get stoned.

[Calvin Locke]

Well, one the of channels recently ran an doc on one of the Voyager missions. NASA was trying to stitch together images of Io, iirc, and could not get some to fit properly.

An imaging expert eventually looked at them stereoscopically, and discovered the stitch just happened to be on an active plume.

Also, FWIW, the Moon has had geologically "recent" (~10K years ago) outgassings, leaving "spray" marks on the surface.

Mars? I supposed it's possible for frozen gas to collect, and erupt when heated by solar radiation.

Either that, or a dust storm appearing as a spray.

[PIF]

Does the outgassing you mention have any connection to transient lunar phenomenon - some of which appeared to be outgassings?

[PIF]

Arafat and Obama won noble prizes ... not impressed

[Voption]

you might enjoy....

Five Years of Curiosity on Mars
JPL/von Karman lecture July 2017
https://youtu.be/zqhK8dA7iO8
1:25:45
“Nearly five years after its celebrated arrival at Mars, the Curiosity rover continues to reveal Mars as a once-habitable planet. Early in the planet’s history, generations of streams and lakes created the landforms that Curiosity explores today. The rover currently is climbing through the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain formed from sediment brought in by water and wind. This talk will cover the latest findings from the mission, the challenges of exploration with an aging robot, and what lies ahead...”

[Calvin Locke]

...transient lunar phenomenon ...

Probably not. Depending on where on the Moon, and where in its orbit, perhaps it's the electrostatics from the Moon entering/leaving the Earth's magnetic tail?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Voption.

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