PSP_001468_1535_RED.JP2 "Best Fan Surfaces in West Holden Crater"

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12/22/2008 I downloaded this photo from: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/pia10134-caption121107.html

The webpage this photo came from explains all the particulars about it. However, I have noticed that this photo has apparently been altered. . .stretched out horizontally and is not as it should be. I was appalled at how NASA managed to skew the scene so badly. They had stretched it sideways instead of publishing a normal photo of this whole area, where even a series of shots would have been good. It is a gross injustice, in my opinion, to take photos paid for by the American taxpayer and publish it on a government website, also paid for by the American taxpayer, and we can't even get a true and normal image of this area of Mars at this angle and distance in this photo. Then they publish the photo on their website (that belongs to the American taxpayer) and type things about it as though it were an accurate and perfect record of the hills in this area. How many other Mars photos have they done this kind of thing to or similar?

WHY DOES NASA DO THIS TO US??? WHY DO THEY ALLOW THEIR TAXPAYER PAID PERSONNEL TO TAMPER WITH THESE MARS PHOTOS?

WHAT GIVES THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE NATURAL SCENERY OF MARS IN THE PHOTOS ACQUIRED BY THE CAMERAS ABOARD THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER and the MARS ROVERS?? THESE ARE NOT CARIBBEAN TRAVELOGUE SHOTS AND NASA SHOULD NOT TREAT THE MARS PHOTOS AS SUCH!!
Perhaps these "scientists" have seen the Bobbles (beings with giant heads) in the photo and didn't want the American public to notice them. But they are there, in the photo, no matter how hard NASA tries to hide them.
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#1 Pixel: 22598,28989 Data: 307 Display: 130 Rotation: 6.7 degrees This area of the JP2 PSP is at about the middle of the right edge of the large file. These photos partly show what MAY be the aftermath of some cataclysmic event where natural landforms were cleaved, causing a Martian city in this area to be mostly destroyed. A geologist might be able to explain it better than I can. There is a crystal tower in this photo and in many of the following photos. I am not certain whether this crystal tower is standing upright or has fallen down. It appears to be made of a glassy material which allows light to go through and objects to be seen through the walls, and is, in my opinion, one of the irrefutable proofs of civilized life on Mars.
In subsequent photos in this series I have detected curious Bobbles (living beings with giant heads and small bodies) and their young. And, of course, the ubiquitous "sand dune worms" who crawl out of the sand to go where one would least expect a sand worm to be. There also may be a giant snake or 2 in some of these photos. I've had to rotate many of the photos to set off the features as best as possible. I have searched for a civilization other than Bobbles. The evidence is there in many of my photos that they exist or did exist at one time in the past. The original JP2 PSP was much too light, so I had to use the Contrast, Lighting and edge Sharpening features of my editing software to some degree.


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#1A01 Pixel: 22612,28987 Data: 466 Display: 197 Rotation: 6.7 degrees Directly to the right and behind the crystal tower there appears to be a tall palisade made of layered material. It might have walkways carved into it. There are many Bobbles in the "earthen" area and also near the cliff's edge.


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This is for the one person who claims that she cannot see the crystal tower. I hope you will now be able to see it as it is well outlined in red. :)



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#1A02 Pixel: same as 1A01 but closer
There must have been many tall buildings similar to the crystal tower in this whole area which is now mostly rubble.

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#1A03 Pixel: 22478,29034 Data: 279 Display: 118 Rotation: 6.7 degrees


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#1A03A I rotated the #1A03 to get this angle of the crystal tower. This particular photo has not been sharpened, or edited in any way from the original except to slightly darken it. It actually looks like it has fallen over from its original upright position. That must be why there appears to be a "sand dune worm" attached to near the top of the tower.
The glassy material that it is composed of must be remarkably strong that prevented the structure from breaking into pieces.


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#1A04 Pixel: 22726,28926 Data: 390 Display: 165 Rotation: 6.7 degrees Just about the middle of the top of this photo, at the cliff's edge there is a face that greatly resembles a swarthy Middle Eastern-looking human with a bit of a hook nose. I will try to improve it close up, if I can. It also might not be a face at all but something totally different.

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#1A05 Pixel: 22743,28891 Data: 295 Display: 124 Rotation: 6.7 degrees
At the far right of this photo there is something that resembles a statue of an ancient Persian Caliph. It has eyes, even eyebrows, and a headdress or helmet at the top. It could also be part of a building, or a broken idol. Father Christmas? That might be stretching it a bit too far.
Judging by the "Crystal Tower", this may once have been a beautiful place.

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#1A06 Pixel: 22938,28758 Data: 218 Display: 92 Rotation: 25.4 degrees

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#1A07 Pixel: 22977,28830 Data: 442 Display: 187 Rotation: 6.7 degrees

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#1A08 Pixel: 23117,28841 Data: 113 Display: 47 Rotation: 6.7 degrees
The statue or building almost seems to be looking down at this object on the bottom right. Could that be a misplaced idol?

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#1A09 Pixel: 22979,28568 Data: 212 Display: 89 Rotation: -80.4 degrees
I rotated this photo a bit and found this face. Also the metallic looking object to the left of it. To the far left, right at the edge is a humanoid-looking face. I will look at this area again to see what it is.

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#1A10 Pixel: 22789,28313 Data: 143 Display: 60 Rotation: -83.3 degrees
This photo gives an idea, somewhat, of why this area (city?) lays in ruins. Note the curved downward feature of the layered strip towards the right.

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#1A12 Pixel:21203,29268 Data: 202 Display: 85 Rotation: -83.4 This photo shows the 2 sections of the layered strips, where it begins and where it ends. The city, if it was a city, may have been built on a fault line. The layered strip on the left meanders out of the photo toward the Northeast, most likely.

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#1A13 Pixel: 22849,29377 Data: 106 Display: 44 Rotation: 137.9 degrees
I thought this was a spectacular shot after I turned the photo around to face the layered strip on the right side. (Actually Southerly). I believe it is in a possible subduction zone and it is carrying objects along with it as it curves and presses downward and under the surface on its way to the mantle. On Earth, I think the majority if not all of subduction zones are under the ocean. It is possible that all the objects in this area are headed for that subduction zone and will eventually wind up headed downwards.

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#1A14 Pixel: 23149,27341 Data: 309 Display: 89 Rotation: 44.1 degrees
I was very curious about this cave-like structure and the 2 horizontal bars below it. This place is now home to Bobbles and giant sand dune worms.

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#1A15 Pixel: 22886,28091 Data: 283 Display: 89 Rotation: -3.1 degrees
The tall structure towards the bottom of this photo may be another crystal tower, but may have sustained more damage than the one in preceding photos in ths series. It appears to have been built on or near the slope of a hill. As with the other crystal tower I am uncertain if this one is laying on the ground or propped up somehow. Directly to the left of the tower there appears to be an elongated white vertical line that somewhat resembles a flagpole. I suppose it could also be an elevator shaft or something entirely different.
If the viewer chooses to use a hand-held magnifier and looks to the left of the photo in the area of the slightly curved object that resembles a race track, you should be able to see several Bobbles ("people" with giant heads) on the track. Of course, it's not really a race track. . . but they are standing or sitting on it. They have very strange looking faces and tiny bodies that can barely be seen. Click on the photos to see a larger version.

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#1A16 Pixel: 16059,30133 Data: 192 Display: 56 Rotation: -104.9 degrees I had to rotate this photo as well as the next one from 6.7 degrees which I normally keep in this PSP series to minus 104.9. Mars is a planet of strange heads and faces that seem to have grown out of nothing. . . .or at least, out of the bare rocks, sand, cliffs, etc. This photo shows a FELINE-FACE which the arrow points to. However, it is partially covered on the left side by a layer of the layered strip found in other photos in this series, and on its right side a "sand dune worm" has crawled onto it; the worm's legs or feet covering the cat-face slightly. One of the odd things is that when one is viewing a face, then looks away for perhaps a second, the face looks different when looking at it again or it has melded with another face. Not so much with this cat-face, however. Probably because it is up close.

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#1A17 Pixel: 15850,30267 Data: 247 Display: 80 Rotation: -104.9 degrees I was continuing across the JP2 large file photo when I thought I saw another face. So I went in a bit closer and noticed what appears to be a statue of possibly a crystal-like material below a humanoid face. It has a rather large nose and a downturned mouth. The eyes are closed. There are sand-dune worms all around.
If you look directly to the right of the red arrow, you may see 2 other faces. The first one appears feminine and the second appears to be wearing a helmet. The second face slightly resembles the old "Kilroy Was Here" graffiti drawings that were spread across Europe by American G.I.s during World War 2.

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#1A Pixel: 22825,28299 Data: 310 Display: 131 Rotation: 6.7 degrees
A scene from high above.


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#1B Pixel: 22757,27677 Data: 400 Display: 169 Rotation: 6.7 degrees


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#1C Pixel: 23009,27183 Data: 283 Display: 119 Rotation: 6.7 degrees
This is at the top of the whole area where the layered strip comes in from about the Northeast.


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#1D Pixel: 22667,29500 Data: 124 Display: 52 Rotation: 6.7 degrees
Another shot of the possible subduction zone from a different angle and upside down.


STILL LIFE or MARS AS ART!!

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Several types of Mars ground material.


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A herd of "sand dune worms" attempting to climb or crawl up to the higher ground.

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I think this is quite pretty. . .like geological flora.

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There are some Bobbles and their young in this photo. One needs a good magnifier to see them. This may be a Bobble village.

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This is the same photo as copy #9F below. Talk about "still life"!! LOL

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A rocky oasis that also resembles a train wreck.

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This could have been a part of a ranch in Colorado if it wasn't on Mars. What a spread!!

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I call this one "Isolation"


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A Martian rock garden!!

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I call this one "Oh No!! Here they come again!!" because it looks like a herd of "sand dune worms" are coming to attack the rock garden.

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This one is amusingly spooky. It looks like a group towards the middle of the photo is staring at the strange critter on the far right that resembles a gravestone with a large eye and an outstretched arm with a pointing finger. There's also the rocky guy at the bottom middle that resembles a man wearing a trenchcoat.

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I think this is cute!! It resembles quite a bit a kitten staring eye-to-eye with a strange little dog.

PSP_001493_1815_RED.JP2 "Dark Sand and Bright Bedrock in Terra Meridiani"

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#1 Pixel: 14556,24135 Data: 471 Display: 169 Rotation: -67.8 degrees
I had to darken this photo and sharpen the lines a bit to show more details. I also had to turn the PSP around to the above rotation but it's quite unmistakeable that it's a good representation of a duck's head. There are many faces as usual, but the image of a duckling's face, beak and eye is amazing. There are drawings or carvings of Bobbles ("people" with giant heads and very small bodies) on the duck's head and other areas in the photo.


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This actually belongs in the PSP_001374_1805_RED.JP2 section, but near the top of the crater rim that is within the crater in this photo is a disc shape with what looks like a black duck inside it. Since the photo above this one has what looks like a duckling's head, I thought this one needed to be in the same section. I have zoomed in much closer to this black duck and it certainly LOOKS like a duck. But this is so strange!! How is it possible to have ducks on Mars??
Maybe somebody can come up with the answer someday.
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#2 Pixel: 23263,21911 Data: 460 Display: 164 Rotation: 47.5 degrees
These are some very interesting patterns in this photo, obviously artificially made. There are Bobbles walking on the ledge in the upper left side of the photo and elsewhere.
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#3 Pixel: 23495,20960 Data: 282 Display: 85 Rotation: 47.5 degrees
I've included this photo here because of the many Bobbles on the right side and elsewhere.
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#4 Pixel: 5655, 20147 Data: 274 Display: 70 Rotation: 2.4 degrees
Many faces in the rocks.


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More interesting faces and patterns in the rocks. This photo is the upper portion of the #4 photo, above. These are all very nice carvings.

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PSP_002176_2025_RED.JP2 "Exhumed Layers Near the Nili Fossae"

PSP_002824_1355.jpg which is derived from PSP_002824_1355_RED.JP2
I deemed it necessary to add my cropped photo from the above PSP JP2 so that the viewer may compare this representation of TRUE sand dunes with false ones that many scientists are regarding as "sand dunes", and are obviously not sand dunes at all.


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#2 Pixel: 12453,40126 Data: 435 Display: 125 Many scientists may mistakenly claim that these are, in fact, sand dunes. They may RESEMBLE sand dunes slightly, but compare the big differences between this photo and the one above of true sand dunes. The objects in this photo are alive and evidently capable of movement. Notice the appearance of horn-like appendages and the centipede-like "legs" that are perhaps meant to enable motility. Also, there are many of these critters who appear to have a segment attached to the main body. These are, perhaps, their offspring that are not quite ready to detach from the parent. All of them appear to have some sort of sand covering over their "skin" to protect them from a hostile environment and that, once that sand covering is shed, they no longer are protected. I believe that these photos in this section tell quite a bit about the life and death cycles of these critters.


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#3 Pixel: 22910,4508 Data: 304 Display: 31 This is a field of sand with what I believe to be about 6 skeletal remains of what certain scientists presently consider to be "sand dunes". Of course, there are bona fide sand dunes on Mars, such as the first photo in this section. However, many that are mistaken for sand dunes may be, in reality, animals that mimic sand dunes, but are living and possibly mobile. To the left of the skeletons is one that may yet be alive. (See photos #4, #5 and #6).


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#4 Pixel: 18342,3662 Data: 319 Display: 41 Here's another example of dead "sand dunes" with their skeletons exposed. For want of a better scientific name I shall refer to them as "sand dune critters".


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#5 Pixel: 19070,4501 Data: 306 Display: 32 And yet another example of dead "sand dune critters". The ones at the left side, which is possibly a lower elevation than the right, have died and the skeletons are exposed as in the first two photos. It appears that the live ones on the right are moving towards the dead ones and are about to fall down from the higher elevation. These do look more like Terran earthworms, don't they? Perhaps they cover themselves with sand in order to stay moist?? There is a ravine further to the left of this photo.


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#6 Pixel: 15600,4529 Data: 421 Display: 105 Looking like beached whales, only one large "sand dune critter" seems to be healthy. The others are all in various states of deterioration. This is much further to the left of photo #5. What can it be that's eating these critters?


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#40 This cropped photo is borrowed from the above JP2 PSP large file photo and placed in this section to illustrate further that what many scientists call "sand dunes" are NOT made of sand. This photo was cropped from the West side of the original JP2 photo at the above approximate PSP map coordinates using the IASViewer and is outside of the crater.
As you should be able to see, there are several "sand dune critters" who have died and their bones are bleaching out in the open. Their "flesh" may also have been eaten by insects and/or spiders. These "sand dune critters" evidently bury themselves under the sand and then emerge with sand sticking to their bodies in order to move about. These are most likely consumers and digesters of sand just as Terran earthworms on Earth consume dirt and digest it. Therefore, this species on Mars may be just as valuable for their ability to produce essential elements back to the soil.
I think, at this time, that it is most appropriate to rename these critters as "Sand Dune Worms" as that is what I believe them to be.


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#7 Pixel: 9473,35792 Data: 328 Display: 35 This looks very much like an ant. The head may be facing South towards the waypoint 7 but could be looking North. I've seen others like this but this one is the closest. I used a handheld magnifying glass and then magnified the "insect" using the Viewer's feature. (see #8 photo below).

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#8 Same as #7, above, but magnified. This photo may lack enough clarity, but I thought I'd include it anyway.
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This letter is from the following scientists and the complete letter (announcement) may be found at this URL: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-082.txt
At the bottom of this page, I have printed in red the part of this letter which describes the strangeness of the "Sand Dune Worms", although at the time, they were not aware of giant worms on Mars(and, in January 2008, many scientists still won't admit that these creatures exist on Mars). But it IS admitted that they cannot be dunes because of the sharpness of the crests or ridges, the symmetry of the slopes, and what they call erosion is what we now know are the hundreds or thousands of "legs" that provide mobility to these worms. Throughout most, if not all of the photos on my webpages, these sand dune worms are present.
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Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC May 22, 2000
(Phone: 202/358-1727)

Mary Hardin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-0344)

Dr. Ken Edgett
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA
(Phone: 858/552-2650 x500)

RELEASE: 00-82

PUBLIC INVITED TO BROWSE 20,000 NEW ADDITIONS TO MARS PHOTO GALLERY

The letter says, in part:

"Putting these data into perspective is very difficult. We have focused on 'themes.' Layers on the Martian surface are the biggest 'theme' or 'finding' of the imaging investigation so far. To a geologist, layers record history and they are the most geologically important, profound thing we have seen," said Dr. Michael Malin, principal investigator for the camera system at Malin Space Science Systems. "We see layers in the walls of canyons, craters, and troughs. We see layers in both the north and south polar regions. We see them in the craters on top of volcanoes, we see them in pits at the bottoms of impact craters, we see them virtually everywhere that some process has exposed the subsurface so that we can see it from above."

"Seeing Mars up close through the narrow angle camera has been a humbling
experience. We often find surfaces for which there are no obvious analogs on Earth, like certain ridges that look like dunes. Our terrestrial geologic experience seems, at times, to fail us," Edgett said. "Perhaps it is because water is the dominant force of erosion on Earth, even in the driest desert regions.
But on Mars that force of change may have been something else, like wind. The ridges seen in places like the Valles Marineris floors are strange. They aren't dunes because they occur too close together, their crests are too sharp, their slopes too symmetrical. They often appear to be a specific layer of material that has undergone erosion -- we just wish we knew what processes are involved that cause this kind of erosion."