Posted on 12/26/2014 9:31:02 PM PST by LibWhacker
If you have it installed on your computer, fire up Google Earth and click on the icon along the top edge of your screen that looks like Saturn. A menu will drop down. Click on Mars. After Google Mars loads, enter these coordinates into the search bar: -84.2952811,-56.5576401 .
Here's what you'll see:
At first, I thought someone had photoshopped it. But you can see that isn't true.
So what do you think it is? I don't know if the picture is presented in true color, but if it is it sure looks like moss to me!... Moss that can survive temps as low as -125F in a constant bath of cosmic rays.
You can follow it from center top to the bottom of the photo.
Can even see where little islands occurred with flow moving around them.
The green, who knows.
Hard to say without knowing the scale. Miles? Feet?
Obviously it’s a giant grow operation. The pot that is produced is out of this world.
Picture here is about 3/4th miles by 1/2 miles. If you have Google Earth, you can zoom in or out on any feature and determine it’s dimensions by clicking on ‘view’ | ‘scale legend,’ etc.
Clicking on the HiRise image box and then the Observation image page you get.....
HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT
South Polar Layered Deposits and Residual Ice Cap
PSP_006270_0955 Science Theme: Polar Geology
A wide variety of south polar terrains are on display in this spectacular HiRISE color image. The reddish material in the upper two thirds of the image is the south polar layered deposits (SPLD). These deposits are a stack of layered, dusty water ice. Scientists believe that these layers record previous climatic conditions on Mars, much like terrestrial ice-sheets provide a record of climate change on the Earth.
This image shows the face of one of the many scarps or shallow cliffs that cut into the polar layered deposits. These scarps expose the internal layers within the SPLD. You can see these climate-recording layers in the upper two thirds of the image running from lower-left to upper-right.
The terrain in the lower third of the image is quite different in both appearance and composition. The bright, white-ish material is a thin covering of carbon dioxide ice draped over the flat areas of the SPLD. This covering of carbon dioxide is being eroded away by expanding flat-floored pits. Parts of the floors of these pits show the reddish brown coloring of the underlying polar layered deposits. These pits have eroded the carbon dioxide ice layer to such an extent that only isolated mesas remain today and even these shrink in extent by a few meters each year.
These mesas also have several layers within them, indicting that they likely contain a climatic record, albeit a much shorter one than preserved in the SPLD. Most of the isolated mesas have white-ish tops; however, some (near the foot of the SPLD scarp) have reddish tops. This may either be due to bright carbon dioxide ice thinning to reveal the older (and darker) carbon dioxide ice that makes up the main body of the mesa, or perhaps dust has settled out of the atmosphere to cover the brighter frost. There was a large Martian dust storm earlier this year which could have caused either effect. Written by: Shane Byrne (2 January 2008)
But there is more....
Haven’t you all read “A Princess of Mars”? It’s covered in moss!
...now look at those same coordinates for earth. You will find the same imagery from Antarctica.
The scale for your pic post is 3km. Look at both Earth and Mars for those coordinates at 3km scale, then zoom out to about 40km for both Earth and Mars. Same...same!
Google has messed up, computer foul-up is my guess.
Cool! But I don’t see a way to access HiRise images in Google Mars. Are you looking at a different website? NASA’s?
Hmm, I don’t get that at all. When I look at those coordinates for the earth at an altitude of 40 miles, all I see is an almost completely featureless gray.
It would depend on the size of your screen, I am on a 13” laptop. Zoom out till you see a long narrow rectangular strip about 10 degrees off vertical. Then zoom out on Mars till you see same size long narrow rectangular strip, they are identical. There is a blueish green stripe changing to yellow running down center of rectangular strip. The photo you posted is right at the region of where the blueish green is changing to yellow as you can see in the bottom right hand corner of your photo.
Did you look at those coordinates for both Earth and Mars sized to match the photo you posted, 3km scale? They are identical for Earth and Mars.
What fatman6502002 said: “It might not be in true color.”
If not that, possibly olivine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine
Turns out there are 51 kinds of green stone, wow.
http://www.google.com/images?q=dark+green+stone&sa=X&oi=image_result_group
probably correct ... mineral deposit of some sort, if color is not distorted. Is soil considered a mineral deposit? <-— Am going to check that one ... LOL.
I am looking at the coordinates you gave for Mars in Google Earth. Zoom out, you will see two red boxes with white borders on top of one another at the top right hand corner of long narrow rectangular strip. The strip is the HiRise image of this region but not Mars, it is Antarctica. Click on one of the red boxes, a pop-up window will pop-up, click on ‘See this image’s observation information page’, and it will display the information I posted in my first post in this thread. All this is in Google Earth, no website.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Composition_of_Mars?lang=en ... guess the answer is yes. Soil is considered a mineral deposit.
Capricorn One!
Soil is probably all-encompassing, although here we have clay, sand, and soil as three separate categories. ;’)
I love soil ... Soil is our makeup of both male and female ... All food is soil ... I LOVE Soil! A whole new meaning for soil ... er ... dirt!
I'll bring a flare for them. I'm more worried about AMEE.
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