ANCIENT MINING ON MARS

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by GRR8</i>
<br />This series of images suggests Mining. I would be grateful for your interpretation based on just these images if nothing else.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I am not calibrated on the subtleties of recognizing mining operations on Earth. To my untrained eyes, the rings in the interior of those craters look like geological features, such as mineral deposits as a lake in the interior slowly evaporates.

This does not deny that the images may show mining operations. But nothing jumps off the page at me to make that impression compelling. It therefore does nothing for me to advance the argument for the existence of artifacts into the ranks of the skeptics. -|Tom|-

There are quite a lot of assumption being made on that page. I do agree that at the distance those photos were taken at, they do look strikingly like an open-pit mining operation.... but... things look more and more alike the further you get away from them. If you've ever seen one of those pictures where they take thousands of small pictures of other things and piece them together to form a larger, different picture, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. I will admit that it certainly doesn't look like a crater from an impact, the way its terraced(or appears to be), but to jump to the conclusion that it's a mine because it looks like one is presuming too much.

I think it is worth investigating, but I also think chances are low that it's a mining operation. If Mars was originally a moon of a now-exploded planet, chances are that it had next to no atmosphere even back then. Open-pit mining would not make as much sense as a shaft system under such circumstances, due to the fact that you can create a sealed, artificial environment in a mine shaft.

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"Regret can only change the future" -Me

"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." Frank Herbert, Dune 1965

My impression of the feature at www.keithlaney.net/MiningMars.html is that it may be a permafrost impact structure, consistent with the feature's extreme circularity, the concentricism of its deeper levels, the irregularity of the "roads" serving those levels assuming it is an open cut mine of the sort we are familiar with.

Of course these contradictory forms might be due to an alien mining technology . . . but to me this seems unlikely. I explained "flow" morphologies surrounding another Mars "crater" as a permafrost impact structure in an earlier, CD version of my ebook online at www.nodrift.com , about 6 years ago.