Nynphae Silvis - m1201588a show a huge leaf inside a crater

m1201588a It's not a crater: its a huge leaf

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We already said about these craters, looking strange. Now we have a photographic evidence that they are not quite what they seem.

In this image m1201588a as strange as could seem, but quite evident, the interior of this crater is completely occupied by an enormous leaf!

We call it Nynpha Silvis in honour to our staff member that suggested first the key of interpretation for this image.

Take a look at the enlargements to see it yourself, and go to discussion page to see the many evidence in depth.

The problem of craters was already on our agenda (see small craters are artificial structures page) and we already had a clue looking at the NASA image ab110004f that took a long time to be interpreted (click on the image on left to see an enlargement) but couldn't find a key for all those anonalous craters until one of us had the idea that the ground, so flat and regular, could be not a ground but something interposed; possibily a huge leaf. AB110004 seems a huge sunflower, but because of the low resolution we didn't get to any conclusion. We will come back on this image in the next weeks.

This is the unretouched original image (fragment) from Mars Global Surveyor, as presented at M1201588 ; the original image is upside down and still not map-projected (i.e the image is in diagonal but conserves the real shape). Clicking on the image you'll get an enlargement where to see all the peculiarities discussed above.

Be shure to take a look at it, or if you prefer at the original NASA M1201588

Nymphae silvis twins

Portion (lower center) of original NASA M1401524

Nympha silvis single

Portion (upper left) of original NASA M1401524

Nympha silvis single

Portion (upper right) of original NASA M1500558