Mars Express 3D - HRSC image 2271_0009 DTM

Here are a few images form a Mars Express digital terrain map draped with color in a 3D view.

HRSC image 2271_0009

It is an interesting landscape. The craters have strange shapes. Lots of flat areas and hills. Water, ice and mud all come to mind looking at the images.





















Excuse the artifacts from the upload process. All the images can be seen full size and more can be found here on flickr

a reply to: LookingAtMars

fascinating! hope, we see humans on mars soon. we need to explore and go beyond.

a reply to: LookingAtMars

whats that?

a reply to: oloufo

Dunes with avalanches of something dark.

a reply to: oloufo

Fascinating OP, your last photo seems to have a carving or mound of a naked dancing woman on the left.
Perhaps it's pareidolia, but I have to be honest, it really looks that way.
Nice child-bearing hips too.

I'm not joking - I really see this!
Perhaps a bit scattered by time, but close enough for a Facebook algorithm to ban it for nudity.

a reply to: oloufo

Looks like a nasty fungal infection, I'd be getting that looked at.

a reply to: halfoldman

So, the first part of your handle should be "dirty?"

a reply to: Phage

It's unmistakable!
Clearer than that "face" they found!

a reply to: oloufo

They are defrosting dunes. Not sure what the official answer is for the dark stuff (sand?), but it looks like they are leaking something.

a reply to: halfoldman
Not sure I see what you are seeing, does she have rabbit ears?

a reply to: oloufo

Thanks, I hope so too. We need to get to Mars!

originally posted by: oloufo
a reply to: LookingAtMars

whats that?

Barchan sand dunes.
en.wikipedia.org...

a reply to: LookingAtMars

No, check out the last photo on the OP's list.

Towards the bottom left.

A dancing naked figure with breasts.

The posture strangely reminds me of the figure on David Icke's And the Truth shall set You Free.
www.davidicke.com...
I mean the dancing pose, no breasts obviously on Icke's book (and the image I see has none of the details), but it does have breasts.
Almost like it's being being reflected, or upside down right at the bottom, but cut-off at that point.

Like Lady Godiva if she went ice-skating.

a reply to: myselfaswell

Looks like a nasty fungal infection, I'd be getting that looked at.

It could be something like that.

a reply to: halfoldman

Yea, look close above her boobs is her head and she has rabbit ears, really. Pareidolia without a doubt.

a reply to: LookingAtMars

Perhaps, could be her hair blowing in the wind, but at least I'm not the only person here anymore to see boobs.

It could also be a human/animal mask or chimera (similar to prehistoric or shamanic figures).

Well I see her with arms in the air, like she's having a really wild time.

a reply to: LookingAtMars

Thanks for posting the images. Very interesting.

a reply to: lunarcartographer
Thanks, what is your take on the terrain in the images?

originally posted by: LookingAtMars
Water, ice and mud all come to mind looking at the images.

Yes, there was liquid water and mud on Mars in the distant past, and it played its part in the formation of the terrain you see today.

That crater does look quite broken up. Perhaps it's undergone a similar kind of process which created the "chaos terrain" places on Mars.



The HiRISE page for an image of the crater floor specifies "Sedimentary / Layering Processes", so perhaps that crater used to be filled with water. hirise.lpl.arizona.edu...

Crater floor:

a reply to: wildespace

Thanks, nice images of the crater.