Nyphae Silvis discussion page

Nyphae Silvis discussion page
	This is how the Ninphea Silvis (in honour to her's discoverer) looks like, while layng on the ground of the crater. The crater origin itself is still suspect: could be generated from some work of this "plant" or simply the plant have occupied an hole digged from some other creature or natural agent. The fact that this looks exactly like a leaf is not disputable. Of course I'm not proposing this to be really green, but adding the green color at the image made very easy to interpretize it, because recalls the forms we are used to face into our daily experience. Notice that the leaf casts a shadows against the inner walls of the "crater" all round, meaning that has an elevation and it's not simply the bottom of the crater. At the same time notice that the "shadwes" at the border look exactly as humidity and that the leaf itself is emitting a thin fog. To appreciate all these peculiarities I suggest you to download the TIFF image and enlarge it as much as 500%. The file is available in the download section.

	Enlargement of upper right part of the image showing that the edge of the leaf casts its own shadows on the inner walls.

	Same things, on this other enlargement. The shadows is stil present even if we are at the opposite side. This means that is projected from the leaf itself elevating from the ground.

Other samples of the same kind:

M1000254	M1201588


SP246105

Check the images using Robert Sheperd's Mars Global Surveyor Database