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Subject: Re: PICS:  Spock the difference: Nasa reveals dunes on the Martian
surface that look like Star Trek logo

carolyn.e.heath{at}hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (cazza13) wrote in 
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> Beam me up to MARS Scotty.  William Shatner is on Twitter about this
> finding.
> 
> 
> Spock the difference: NASA reveals dunes on the Martian
> surface that look like Star Trek logo
> Unusual dune field spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
> Contains dozens of 'wingtip dunes
> 
> 
> FROM:  MO
> 
> It may at first seem a highly illogical picture - but fear not, you
> can Klingon to the knowledge it really did come from the surface of
> Mars.
> 
> NASA today revealed this amazing v-shaped dune field on Mars - which
> looks uncannily like the Starfleet logo from the hit TV show Star
> Trek.
> 
> It was spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
> 
> This image was acquired by the HiRISE camera aboard the Orbiter on
> Dec. 30, 2013.
> 
> 'In this image of a dune field in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis,
> some of the dunes appear to be in formation,' NASA said.
> 
> It likened the formation to flying birds.
> 
> 
> 'Migratory birds and military aircraftulike during World War IIuoften
> fly in a V-shaped formation,' it said.
> 
> 'The 'V' formation greatly boosts the efficiency and range of flying
> birds, because all except the first fly in the upward motion of
> air--called upwash--from the wingtip vortices of the bird ahead.
> 
> The odd shapes were formed by a combination of whether and terrain, it
> said.
> 
> 
> 'For dune fields, the spacing of individual dunes is a function of
> sand supply, wind speed, and topography.;
> 
> The find isn't Star Trek's first brush with the NASA's red planet
> projects.
> 
> Earlier this year actor William Shatner joined growing calls for NASA
> to investigate the bizarre 'jelly doughnut' shaped rock on the Martian
> surface.
> 
> Shatner asked Nasa about the strange Mars rock found by Opportunity
> via Twitter during a press conference on the Opportunity rovers latest
> discoveries - asking mission controllers if they had ruled out
> 'Martian rock throwers'.
> 
> Mission controllers responding by saying Shatner's theory was
> 'unlikely'.
> 'We've got another question from Twitter, this one from William
> Shatner,' NASA spokesman Guy Webster said, according to spacecom
> 
> 'He'd like to know if you've ruled out the Martian rock throwers in
> the case of the jelly doughnut.'
> 
> NASA later said it had solved the mystery of a 'jelly doughnut' rock
> that appeared on the Martian surface - and says it was just a rolling
> stone.
> 
> The white-rimmed, red-centered rock caused a stir last month when it
> appeared in an image the rover took on January 8th.
> 
> More recent images show the original piece of rock struck by the
> rover's wheel, slightly uphill from where Pinnacle Island, the name
> NASA gave the rock, came to rest.
> 
> 'Once we moved Opportunity a short distance, after inspecting Pinnacle
> Island, we could see directly uphill an overturned rock that has the
> same unusual appearance,' said Opportunity Deputy Principal
> Investigator Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis. 
> 
> 'We drove over it.  'We can see the track. 'That's where Pinnacle
> Island came from.'
>  
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