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Spot on Andy. I'm done.

Where have you been? Over the last two years opportunity's cameras have photographed HUNDREDS of dunes with clearly defined strata. "Uniformity?" The saturation of sand will NOT be uniform but in a gradient. More at the lower levels(where there is more sand) and less at the top. GRAVITY an...

Well Done Aichip!!!
Let's see if skeptic has enough actual functioning neurons to "git while the gitting is good".
LMAO.likely not.

What you are saying is that the wind "preferentialy"deposited grains of singular consistancy at some levels,then came back to deposit smaller lighter grains,and then came back to add more heavy grains in another layer,and so on. Then came back after these strata "settled" and car...

I don't give a rats ass who "looks at me". Either does Sir Charles.
The body of facts is his only concern.

I can't understand how you can ask questions,recieve an adroit and susinct reply,then blow it off by making jokes that only reflect your inabillity to process the information. Everyone WANTS to be a comedian,but FEW actualy have the tallent.I would suggest you occupy the later descriptive since the ...

We have to remember that everything in the vicinity of our sun is falling toward it or in an orbit around it as a result of Sol's gravity and the object's inertia. Even the ort cloud is suspended in the influence of Sol's gravity and it's very very far away. Yet, it's is gliding along through the co...

Raw Sunlight.Again just WOW!
I'm curious what program you uesd to render that amazing work.
It's now the proud holder indefinately of my desktop.

I posted a short animated gif of a simple wireframe view of a single slice in spacetime gravity shear http://www.geocities.com/eyecapitain1/Spacetime_Warp.html keep in mind that this is only one slice in three dimentions of what would look the same regardles of the direction we look at it. For dialu...

My isp hates me. I have attempted, three times, to post a thread detailing answeres to jakienle's questions, only to get booted at upload time. In a day or two I'll be back with a full summation (hopefully) of what I know and "believe" are good answeres. The situation is fairly complex but...

Thanks for the info.BTW nice web page.great astrophotography

That's great work Davenash!!!
What progam did you use to compile the shots so seemlessly?
I'd like to have a shot at doing this too.

Just as the side slew of planetary rotation,combine with the constant downforce of gravity to the center of a moving mass,causes huricanes and typhoon to rotate,galaxies experience the same phenomena Qev nailed it! Many random processes acting as a collective to give us beautifull views of the billi...

Happy Birthday Apod!
And thank you for the grand colage depicting so many great things featured for us all on APOD.
This graphic is beautifull!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... no_big.jpg

Good to have a Pro here Betsy. :D I would think the reasons for the poor return are many. First we see that Cassini is doing a "drive by" when it's imaging Titan. Magellan was orbiting Venus. Cassini just swings by Titan occasionaly and snaps "on the fly". Sort of like taking a p...

I love this shot so much here's a stereo view http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/eyecapitain1/detail?.dir=ad30re2&.dnm=83f4re2.jpg&.src=ph Colorising credit goes to Sir Charles Shults III (Aichip) The full size photo is posted somewhere in the mountain of data on http://www.xenotechresearch.com, ...

Harry.Good question as to the "pristine" look of these sol 28 fossils. Knowing what we know about the water activity there at Meridiani I would assume erosion is always a work in progress. I would suggest that these fossils have only recently eroded out of the sedimentary rock they became ...

Way back in the first sols of the Opportunity mission I viewed these organisms. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/028/1M130672794EFF0454P2933M2M1.HTML There are 17 frames on this page Http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_m028.html with this same class of organism clear...

I hate to go here Pete, but, credibillity is an issue with all things Nasa regarding Mars exploration at this point. Truely the MER teams have done exceptionaly outstanding work in the planning and execution of these missions. I have NO issues with that and thank them heartily for their skill and ef...

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Dana.
Classic quote.I plan to steal it many many times!

There is little doubt in my mind Mars supported a substantial ocean and a substantial biosphere in the past. Some time ago I was browsing the MOLA (Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter)site and noticed they had published a very nice topographic map of the entire planet. I dabble in graphical renderings usin...