01-27-2025, 01:31 PM
This post was last modified 01-27-2025, 01:32 PM by AlienGhost. Edited 1 time in total.
Those aren’t even close to the same picture. Zoomed in or not. The shape is different, the stripes are very different, the landscape the rock is laying on is very different.
The second picture looks like it could be one of two things:
1) a river rock type grinding away at it giving it the same stripped look that river rocks would have on Earth. This would mean water was absolutely flowing in that part of Mars.
2) More likely this is an igneous rock that has cracks in it as hot lava flowed over it. The lava was not hot enough to melt the rock, but was viscus enough to fill all the cracks and as it cooled, would be different colors than the original giving it this look.
This is what I think the answer is. The rock is believed to have been at the top of a crater, and Mars is a volcanic planet, no question about that.
The second picture looks like it could be one of two things:
1) a river rock type grinding away at it giving it the same stripped look that river rocks would have on Earth. This would mean water was absolutely flowing in that part of Mars.
2) More likely this is an igneous rock that has cracks in it as hot lava flowed over it. The lava was not hot enough to melt the rock, but was viscus enough to fill all the cracks and as it cooled, would be different colors than the original giving it this look.
This is what I think the answer is. The rock is believed to have been at the top of a crater, and Mars is a volcanic planet, no question about that.
