What do you think the extensive green landscape is in this picture of Mars'? (Vanity)

[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.

[fella]

“does make one wonder why we are taking so long to send humans to the red planet ...”

“It ain’t a place to raise the kids . . “

[no-to-illegals]

True, maybe, but if is soil ... can it be anything other than good?

[Hot Tabasco]

Is all that white stuff snow?

[cgbg]

Time to google “secret space program” and listen to the youtube videos of folks who claim we have had Mars colonies.

It looks like NASA is just a PR joke and cover story.

[no-to-illegals]

think will shake some dust off the bottle ... LOL

[Larry Lucido]

A rolling planet gathers no moss.

[Larry Lucido]

I was just looking for that! :-)

[Vermont Lt]

Moss that can survive that atmosphere would be a real problem on my bathroom’s grout.

[Gen.Blather]

NASA has enhanced the photos to show them at an Earth normal light level. Frankly, I’m guessing that they’ve played with the images so much to make them interesting that without seeing the original, you don’t have a clue what it looks like in reality. Hint, it’d dark.

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Mars_Blue_Bird_Color_01.html

[outofsalt]

[moovova]

Pot.

[PreciousLiberty]

“The strip is the HiRise image of this region but not Mars, it is Antarctica.”

Your first post contains “There was a large Martian dust storm earlier this year which could have caused either effect.”. Unless Martian dust storms have begun affecting Antartica, the image is of Mars. (There’s also way too much exposed soil for it to be Antartica.)

The green color is pretty clearly an erroneous artifact, if you zoom out you can see a large green/yellow stripe down the middle of the strip. Image processing gone bad...

It’s pretty neat that we have maps of other planets, but the image processing involved is still a work in progress.

[MHGinTN]

I have wondered about the great rift valley on Mars ... it that region was once oceanic and civilization was thriving on Mars, when water flowed the last epoch on Mars it must have dumped a whole lot of 'stuff' in the floor of that rift. I envision the floor of the rift to be a dust covered massive junkyard. Where are the detail pictures from flyovers of that valley? NASA has detailed photos of every square yard of the Martian surface, what have they seen in the valley pictures? ... Ya think Hoagland will go in that direction with his future conspiracy theories?

There are lots of Internet posted pix of the Martian surface but I have yet to see anyone pouring over the pix that would reveal what might be on the floor of that great rift.

[LibWhacker]

Ices mostly, I think. Carbon dioxide ice (i.e., “dry ice”) and maybe some water ice. They do know there is water at the poles locked up as ice.

[no-to-illegals]

I envision the floor of the rift to be a dust covered massive junkyard

Possibilities are endless. Would love some exploration in several regions of Mars and knowing information releases are truthful. If exploration has been done of highly probable areas where life may have been supportable at one point, nothing is being said to the public that am aware of. Facts are elusive.