I'm curious why they chose this image for the apod. The Mariana Trench is over 2,500 kilometers long and about 70 kilomters wide, and it is not the only one on Earth. Scientifically speaking, Tethys was hot. It cooled. Now it looks funny.
I was hoping for greater revaletions than this.
1 posted on
06/24/2008 2:27:26 PM PDT by
sig226
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2 posted on
06/24/2008 2:27:49 PM PDT by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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3 posted on
06/24/2008 2:36:49 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
(Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
To: sig226
Mariana Trench is relatively small compared to geography of other planets and moons like Tethys.
Valles Marineris on Mars is over 4000 kilometers long and up to 4 miles deep, with mountain elevations reaching over 16 miles high.
5 posted on
06/24/2008 4:37:36 PM PDT by
dragnet2
To: sig226
Yea, I’d say it has something to do with that GIANT crater on the bottom of the picture.
7 posted on
06/24/2008 5:58:58 PM PDT by
mowowie
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