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You are right!! Rotating the picture 180 degrees makes a BIG difference and the blue areas do look like shadows. Also, I have noticed that if one magnifies the blue areas, they look more like discolored solid than a liquid. That seems to answer my original question that started all of this. (see the...

In the picture of Mar surface (Feb. 20, 2007)--What is it that looks like lakes in the valley between the ridges?? If those are lakes, what are they composed of??

Al

John, and all; Yes, I see some of the 'lines' that look as if they are made up of small craters. But others don't seem to be. Maybe I chose the wrong word--'rolling'. Drag may fit what I meant better. I pictured the moon running into a bunch of something, like from the right of the picture. The piec...

Thanks John. What you said makes sense. Now, just suppose that Phobos ran into a bunch of pieces of something from the right as John suggests. One would think that pieces close enough to the moon to be attracted by gravity would 'roll' along the surface making tracks as we see them. I would expect t...

Note that the layers of Phobos appear parallel. If the lines came from something external to the moon, I would think the layering effect would not appear so perfectly parallel. Also note that some of the layering goes down into some (but not all) of the craters. To me this means that the layering go...