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I wanna pinch dat butte
I like big buttes and I can not lie.
You other rovers canβt deny
That's a beaut of a butte
~~Water on Mars~~
Cake on Mars.
Source with the 27 MB PNG https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-curiosity-views-a-sand-capped-butte/
a what now?
I would've thought that's more a Uranus thing.
Hi-ooooo
Does anyone else get the impression something very very very bad happened to Mars at some point?
I ran across a theory before that tried to connect the Hellas Planitia impact basin, Valles Marineris, the different of crust in areas, the lack of geologic activity now (dead core), and the orbit to suggest a large body impacting long ago. It seemed to make sense generally, we know it happened to Earth to create the Moon. I don't know if it holds up to harder analysis or what evidence we have now. But it basically said that Mars got hit by something closer to its size, much larger than Theia for Earth, that left a huge impact zone, killed the inner part of the planet, and split the other side in some places while blowing off crust and atmosphere. It also shifted the orbit away from a "normal" one like the other inner planets. It was a bad day on Mars. If true. But I do think something happened, there is scarring, even if it wasn't exactly all that.
The biggest hurdle to making Mars habitable again is its lack of a magnetic field. So losing that could quite well qualify as "very very very bad".