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- Here is a developing listing of curious features on Mars
that I have found in the latest 25,000+ Martian photographs released by
Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). I will list the URLs along with brief
commentary about each. I truly do not know what many of these features
are -- nor, I suspect, do many other people. But I have seen enough in
the many hours I have already spent browsing the flood of new images from
Mars to think that the so-called "Face on Mars" may be the least
of the mysteries Earth's neighbor holds.
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- I want to say at the outset that my purpose in posting
the links to selected photos and related personal commentary is simply
to stimulate debate and creative thought about Mars. I do not pretend to
have authoritative answers to what is happening on Mars. On the contrary,
if anything, I have more questions about Mars than the average person!
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- I would like to say that a couple of persons have pointed
out to me that in two or three of the photos that I link to in my posts
of 28 and 29 May 2000 that MSSS has posted negative, not positive, photographic
images to the web. This reverses the normal contours and shading and makes
convex surfaces appear concave, and vice versa. Therefore what I initially
refer to as knobs, are in actuality craters. This is correct, as far as
it goes, and I acknowledge the correction.
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- However, in my view the remainder of the anomalies remain
unexplained, and are not due to incorrect assumptions made on the basis
of mistaken interpretation of a photographic negative. The curious, vein-like
networks of rills, the dark splotches in the crater bowls, the curious
dark filaments, the occasional clusters of rectilinear surface features,
and the rest of the anomalies I have listed do call for further explanation.
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- In this latest installment of "Curious Martian Anomalies"
I have uncovered still more strangeness for your consideration. Look at
the photos, read my commentary and make up your own mind about what is
happening on Mars. In my musings I might be close to the mark or I might
be far wide of it. It is my opinion, however, that there is today some
sort of life on Mars, that there are ruins there from a previous civilization,
and that there are secretive agendas being carried out with respect to
Mars on the part of the JPL, NASA and MSSS. I could be wrong, of course
-- but I really don't think so!
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- Now on to the photos.
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- 1) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0301278.html
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- Here is a field of "knobs". I have encountered
a couple of photos of "knobs". There are a lot of them on Mars,
and you can see a bunch of them in this photo.
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- 2) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/AB102406.html
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- This photo makes an enigmatic reference to a "Radar
Stealth Region". Whatever that might mean. Of course, radar stealth
is a military technology employed on certain war planes in the Pentagon
arsenal. Does that have some relevance for Mars? Are stealth war planes
on Mars? If so, why? And how? Or is there another, more mundane explanation
for the use of the expression "Radar Stealth Region"? Can anyone
reading this post provide an explanation?
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- 3) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/mediummaps/M0101275.jpg
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- I don't know quite what to make of this photo. Click
on it and enlarge it in your browser window. It looks like there are myriad
rectilinear and parallel lines here, and a whole slew of right-angles and
rectangular formations. Look at it carefully and you will see what I mean.
I suppose that the scan lines of the photographic process could account
for some of these lines, right angles and apparent rectangular shapes --
but if that's the case then why don't scan lines produce the same effect
on each and every other photo, seeing as how the same cameras are used
for the other photos too?
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- 4) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0300580.html
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- The "Oxia Splotch". I love this one. It was
sent to me by an alert reader. It is yet another "splotch" on
the floor of a crater. Click through to the image and then click on the
left-hand image:
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/mediummaps/M0300580.jpg
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- Surprise! The "splotch" is really comprised
of many, smaller, individual delta-shaped dark patches on the crater floor.
Scroll down to the bottom of the image and you will find six of these dark
patches perched on the rim of a smaller crater that is on the floor of
the much larger crater. The way they are lined up there is reminiscent
of the way birds will perch on a ledge on a tall building. Are we looking
at life forms here, or just dark rocks or dark sediment poking up through
the sterile Martian sands? I don't know one way or the other, but the possibility
of Martian life does fascinate me.
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- 5) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0102247.html
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- Then this one. Unnamed. And rather fuzzy and blurry.
Is the fuzziness intentional? I wonder, especially since there are many
rectilinear lines in this photo. And particularly in the bottom half you
can see right angles and occasional rectangular features. In the lower-right
corner there is a very interesting arrangement of lines and ridges. What
are we looking at? Might these be ancient ruins? Or are we simply gazing
down on unusual, albeit perfectly natural, Martian geology? You decide.
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- 6) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/mediummaps/M0402619.jpg
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- While you are pondering the fuzziness of the image in
Number 5, ponder the stark clarity of the image here. MSSS is all over
the board -- astonishingly fuzzy and blurry in some photos and stunningly
clear in others. Granted there is weather on Mars -- clouds and sand storms.
Still, it does make you wonder if some of the highly interesting, yet "fuzzy"
photos might not have had a little digital air brushing to conceal details
that NASA/JPL/MSSS don't want us to think about. I don't know one way or
the other. I simply raise the question.
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- But look carefully at this photo. It is so very clear.
Look at the base of the cliffs and you can see what appear to be "seeps"
draining away from the cliff face. There are 5 or 6 of these. A couple
of them are very pronounced. Are there "seeps" or "springs"
on Mars, analogous to what you sometimes find at the base of cliffs in
desert regions here on Earth? Or are we looking at something else, something
for which there may be no terrestrial biological or geological or hydrological
analog?
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- 7) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/jpegctxmaps/FHA01485.jpg
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- And then there are the many degraded, blank, black or
otherwise useless or nearly useless images that Malin Space Science Systems
have posted to the internet. I will list several of them here. I can think
of at least two possibilities for such images: 1) MSSS are in a hurry and
inevitably make some mistakes when posting photos to the web. 2) Or the
unclear, missing, defective and blank images are intentional, in order
to prevent us from seeing readily identifiable anomalies on Mars. In other
words, what we are seeing is government censorship. You decide.
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/jpegctxmaps/M0305168.jpg
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0000057.html
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0001185.html
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0000083.html
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0000118.html
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- http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0002464.html
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- Another red "x". Does "x" mark the
spot of something that MSSS/JPL/NASA do not want us to see?
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- 8) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0306691.html
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- "South Ma'adim Vallis grooved floor." Click
through to the context photo and then click on the narrow focus image on
the left. What are the white grooves?
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- 9) http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/images/M0105182.html
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- And finally this one. There are a gadzillion rectilinear
lines in this photo. Are they an artifact of the digital imaging process,
or are there really scads of straight lines and right angles in this photo?
You decide.
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