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To: SunkenCiv

What an odd-looking dune.
I got so excited about Pluto last summer, I completely forgot about checking in on the Curiosity site. I need to check back there again for other images that have been posted the past several months.


3 posted on 01/19/2016 1:45:29 AM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu
"What an odd-looking dune."

Horizontally compressed, the explanation says. Why couldn't they just uncompress it here? By the looks of the rover, it could be as much as 5x, which would actually make it look like this:



Just a guess, though.
6 posted on 01/19/2016 2:04:53 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: radu

s'more info from last month:
8 posted on 01/19/2016 2:20:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

whoops, forgot you:
9 posted on 01/19/2016 2:20:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: radu

Poor air brushing of the returned photo by NASA.


17 posted on 01/19/2016 6:12:21 AM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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