Date: 6/06/2017 07:32:58
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1075442
Subject: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
NASA Can’t Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
You’d think NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface in the 11 years it’s orbited our nearest neighbour, but a snapshot taken over the planet’s South Pole has revealed something we can’t explain.
While the planet’s entire surface is pocked with various depressions and craters, a vast pit spotted among the “Swiss cheese terrain” of melting frozen carbon dioxide appears to be a bit deeper than your average hole, leaving astronomers to try and figure out what made it.
more…
Date: 6/06/2017 07:39:48
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1075445
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Date: 6/06/2017 07:42:37
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1075446
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
I t looks like a cave.
I’m guessing some type of erosion?
Date: 6/06/2017 07:47:04
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075448
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Tau.Neutrino said:
NASA Can’t Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
You’d think NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface in the 11 years it’s orbited our nearest neighbour, but a snapshot taken over the planet’s South Pole has revealed something we can’t explain.
While the planet’s entire surface is pocked with various depressions and craters, a vast pit spotted among the “Swiss cheese terrain” of melting frozen carbon dioxide appears to be a bit deeper than your average hole, leaving astronomers to try and figure out what made it.
more…
I thought this was going to be about a different square hole on Mars that no-one can explain. No, can’t see it on the web any more. That one made news by potentially helping to explain the giant chasms on Mars.
Date: 6/06/2017 07:48:05
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1075449
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Tau.Neutrino said:
I t looks like a cave.
I’m guessing some type of erosion?
Mars is actually a beach ball and that is where it is pumped up?
Mars is alive and that is its anus?
Date: 6/06/2017 07:58:54
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1075455
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Perhaps the depression located top right of the hole holds a clue?
The coloration around the hole and also top right might hold another clue?
Date: 6/06/2017 08:48:07
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075492
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I t looks like a cave.
I’m guessing some type of erosion?
Mars is actually a beach ball and that is where it is pumped up?
Mars is alive and that is its anus?
Mars already has an anus, or to be slightly more technical, an unexplained hole in Arsia Mons, literally the “Arse Mountain”.
Date: 6/06/2017 08:50:16
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075494
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Here are the six known holes in Arsia Mons.
Date: 6/06/2017 08:59:10
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075495
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
This is one of the arse holes.
Date: 6/06/2017 09:00:51
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075497
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
This is one of the arse holes.
Date: 6/06/2017 09:02:16
From: AwesomeO
ID: 1075498
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
mollwollfumble said:
This is one of the arse holes.
Would be better with an Arnie accent. “Take that, Ice hole”
Date: 6/06/2017 09:08:18
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1075500
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
mollwollfumble said:
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I t looks like a cave.
I’m guessing some type of erosion?
Mars is actually a beach ball and that is where it is pumped up?
Mars is alive and that is its anus?
Mars already has an anus, or to be slightly more technical, an unexplained hole in Arsia Mons, literally the “Arse Mountain”.
If it needs an anus, it usually also needs a mouth. Are you sure you have it the right way round?
Date: 6/06/2017 09:09:20
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1075501
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
mollwollfumble said:
This is one of the arse holes.
Are you sure it is not just a black hole?
Date: 6/06/2017 09:19:59
From: Michael V
ID: 1075505
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
AwesomeO said:
mollwollfumble said:
This is one of the arse holes.
!https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Mars%3B_Arsia_Mons_cave_entrance_-MRO.jpg/1117px-Mars%3B_Arsia_Mons_cave_entrance_-MRO.jpg
Would be better with an Arnie accent. “Take that, Ice hole”
Hahahahahahahaha
:)
Date: 6/06/2017 09:48:00
From: buffy
ID: 1075518
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
Date: 6/06/2017 09:50:42
From: AwesomeO
ID: 1075524
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
I wouldn’t worry about it, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one …
Date: 6/06/2017 09:51:24
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1075526
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
Do you live in Woking?
Date: 6/06/2017 09:58:30
From: buffy
ID: 1075541
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
Do you live in Woking?
No, and I’d never heard of it before last night…
Date: 6/06/2017 09:58:55
From: buffy
ID: 1075543
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
AwesomeO said:
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
I wouldn’t worry about it, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one …
And anyone who reads Pratchett knows that is a scary sentence…
Date: 6/06/2017 09:59:38
From: buffy
ID: 1075544
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Oh, and I think I did recognize that as some lyrics…didn’t I?
Date: 6/06/2017 10:00:50
From: AwesomeO
ID: 1075548
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
buffy said:
Oh, and I think I did recognize that as some lyrics…didn’t I?
Yes.
Date: 7/06/2017 07:15:26
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075870
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
These holes have been suggested as the safest places on Mars for colonists to set up base.
One possibility is to pump the hole full of oxygen. At that low a pressure the risk of fire is negligible, but it would make colonists lives a lot easier.
Date: 7/06/2017 07:20:31
From: Cymek
ID: 1075872
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
mollwollfumble said:
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
These holes have been suggested as the safest places on Mars for colonists to set up base.
One possibility is to pump the hole full of oxygen. At that low a pressure the risk of fire is negligible, but it would make colonists lives a lot easier.
Isn’t it thought some are remnants of lava tubes
Date: 7/06/2017 07:23:54
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1075877
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Cymek said:
Isn’t it thought some are remnants of lava tubes
Yes. That seems certain.
Date: 7/06/2017 07:25:35
From: Cymek
ID: 1075880
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
mollwollfumble said:
Cymek said:
Isn’t it thought some are remnants of lava tubes
Yes. That seems certain.
I wonder how deep and long they are could you follow one back to a volcano
Date: 7/06/2017 07:28:37
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1075885
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
mollwollfumble said:
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
These holes have been suggested as the safest places on Mars for colonists to set up base.
One possibility is to pump the hole full of oxygen. At that low a pressure the risk of fire is negligible, but it would make colonists lives a lot easier.
I’d be worried about how stable the roof is.
Date: 7/06/2017 07:32:30
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1075889
Subject: re: NASA Can't Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
buffy said:
Given that I started reading War of the Worlds last night, this thread is worrying…
These holes have been suggested as the safest places on Mars for colonists to set up base.
One possibility is to pump the hole full of oxygen. At that low a pressure the risk of fire is negligible, but it would make colonists lives a lot easier.
I’d be worried about how stable the roof is.
All seemed to be well that day.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.3443045.1496574978!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg
