I don't think they're grooves. They look raised to me. Lava flows possibly?

Originally posted by wildespace
. I'm baffled, this doesn't look like a geological feature.

What is your geological background, and how does it apply to Mars?

How do they differ from the smalle sperm-like things around it?
Why do you feel it's not the same thing?

They look like grooves from where asteroids or meteors have hit the surface and scraped along bit, Although it is strange to see more than one in close sucession.

I am more interested in the hieroglyphics to the bottom of your lines.

The top one looks like deep gorges to me.

Though there is this optical illusion that I saw in a book once, and it was a picture of a sphere that was the same color as the background, and had a shadow with it. When viewed the right way up, it looks hollow. But when you turn the page upside down, it looks like it's popping out.

These parallel geographical features could be one or the other. Depends how you're looking at it.

And in the bottom right corner there is a stick man with his right arm and head cut off. What does it mean?!?

Pladuim

the first picture they look raised
the second picture they look like grooves
interesting

They sort of look like grooves caused by glacial action.

you wouldnt maybe guess they might have something to do with lava?

They are natural forming lava tubes that have collapsed, if you look around Mons you will notice more of them.



NASA has been thinking about using lava tubes on the moon to use as a base.

It reminds me of what the huge digging machine would have left behind in the movie John Carter.

Given the round depressions at the end of these ruts I would guess something landed then rolled, perhaps boulders thrown from a volcano. That doesn't explain where the boulders went or it could have been the opposite - something rolling left to right, then decaying with time leaving the rounded depression.