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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Hole in Mars
NASA ^
| March 09, 2014
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Posted on 03/09/2014 12:57:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Looks like a big carbuncle or a really big zit.
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:23:22 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(my real nickname is Otter)
To: SunkenCiv
Must be the result of Martianogennic Global Warming.
Either that, or Bush is up to his old tricks again.
Whatever the reason, it be rasisss!
To: cripplecreek
Im guessing its a collapsed lava tube under loose sand. Actually reminds me of a *cold* solder joint on a circuit board when looked at with a X10 microscope.
In particular the the circular cratering (break) just inside of the outer circumference.
Saw the exact same pattern and look (and I mean exact) when manufacturing didn't use enough heat while soldering.
Cause the type of thermal intermittent that would *eat your lunch* to find :)
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:27:52 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: SunkenCiv
It has moved, last time it was on the other side of the page.
It’s not a hole, it is a hatch.
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:43:05 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: SunkenCiv
Reminds me when I was a kid we saw these ‘ant-eater’s’ holes in the sand. An ant would fall in and a couple of big claws would come out and catch the ant and eat it up. Actually we would catch an ant and put it in the hole to see the ant-eater do his thing. Maybe Mars has some really big ant-eaters waiting for us.
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:43:35 PM PDT
by
Vinylly
To: SunkenCiv
Giant gophers.
Maybe martian antlions.
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:49:24 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: SunkenCiv; cripplecreek
To me, amazingly similar to a cold solder joint.
Really looks like something thermal happened to cause the Martian hole.........Just speculating........Again.
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:53:15 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:53:36 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I was thinking the same thing! It is a giant, fricken, Martian ant lion!
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posted on
03/09/2014 1:54:18 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks to me like the area surrounding the hole fell into it after an opening was created, for whatever reason.
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posted on
03/09/2014 2:05:20 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: cripplecreek
Used to love feeding those things. They’re the Sarlacc Pit Monster of the insect world.
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posted on
03/09/2014 2:09:17 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: SunkenCiv
The location of the Rebel base! Lord Vader will be most pleased.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/09/2014 3:07:12 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/09/2014 3:11:45 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(The enemy's gate is down...and to the left.)
To: SunkenCiv
Someone is watching you.
![](http://129.164.179.22/apod/image/1403/marshole2_hirise_960.jpg)
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posted on
03/09/2014 5:18:51 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like a meteor hole on the Ringworld.
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posted on
03/09/2014 6:17:27 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps some sort of underground spring that formed an ice dome in the center. The spring dries up, the ice dome evaporates, the hole forms. Maybe there is still ice in the bottom that is still evaporating.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/10/2014 3:01:21 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: SunkenCiv
Final resting place of a crashed Russian probe.
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posted on
03/10/2014 8:50:52 AM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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