Original image is visible at NASA m0807100d
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This is not a crater. The strangest object so far; seems an enormous flower with petals and leaves sprouting from the ground. Note the scale of the image and the clouds fromed by the thin and chilly atmosphere condensing while flowing around the obstacles. This picture has been presented first by Joseph P. Skipper |
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Many objects believed to be impact bassins or craters are not; the evidence in this image, where a suppsed "crater" hangs on in place after a landslide and another has fallen down following the landslide below, and arriving at the bottom intact! An impact crater is only a hole in the ground and can not be "moved", has no stability of form or shape itself. These objects act more like "oysters" than craters, or like the lower half of huge shells. |
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In this sample the believed crater is suspended over a precipice; if it would have been a real crater nearly two quarters of its border should have fallen down, like shown in this drawing. |
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In this picture we
see like a small crater at first sight, is not a crater at all. The white
arrow points to a casted shadow that resembles the entry of a cave or
something similar, digged into the bank.
Original image is visible at NASA m0807100d |
