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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:16:25 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:14:46 -0400
Subject: Re:  The 2nd Face On Mars

>Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 14:03:55 -0700
>From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: The 2nd Face On Mars

>>From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
>>Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:22:59 -0400
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: The 2nd Face On Mars

>>>Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 06:59:48 -0400
>>>From: Nathan Ranger <netrangr@ufo.net>
>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>>Subject: Re: The 2nd Face On Mars

>>>What interested me
>>>most, though, was the straight edge-like structure oposite the
>>>"face" and the upper right 90 degree angle. Those parts look
>>>very anomalous.

>>>However, those straight-line/90 degree markings look very
>>>unnatural to me. Though my areas of anomaly research expertise
>>>don't often deal with geological structures, I think its pretty
>>>plain here.

<snip>

>>Actually, straight line and even right angles are not uncommon
>>in geology. Both are usually the result of faulting. In some
>>cases, lava has entered a set of cracks resulting from faulting,
>>and when erosion wears the matrix away, only the harder lava is
>>left behind, forming mysterious "walls" and other unusual
>>features.

<snip>


>As a child, I walked past the same large mud puddle on the way
>to school daily.

>As it dried, the surface broke into nearly perfect hexagons and
>pentagons, with deep cracks separating the "tiles" of  silt!
>It looked so "artificial", that I had to stop and wonder about
>it.

<snip>

Hello Mark et al.,

I must agree with Nathan that the structures I observed, at
least, looked highly anomalous and non-natural. I didn't even
notice the "second face," so am not sure we're talking about the
same photo. The one I looked at was at:

http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/complete/orb_0548/54804.jpg

and exhibited regular tessilated markings on the interiors and
floors of 4 or 5 craters in one general area, but nothing like
it in any of the other craters.

The fact that in the craters where they exist the pattern
extends all around the interior walls as far as is observable
and all along the flat crater floor as well, with the same
typical spacing, seems really anomalous to me. The spacing of
course is much larger than than that of any hexagonal shapes
observed on earth, and the pattern wasn't hexagonal, but diamond
shaped. They must have consisted of elevated ridges in that
pattern, to give the bright and dark shadowed contrasts.

One of the craters showed a series of parallel up-down ridges on
its inside wall that might conceivably have been caused by
rainfall erosion if the crater is old enough to have existed in
that past era. But I don't see how the others could be
explained. At the bottom of the scroll-down photo strip there
was a well defined crater with no such markings at all.

Let us know, Mark, if anyone on any astronomical newsgroup you
frequent comes up with any decent, plausible explanation for
these inner-crater markings.

Jim Deardorff