A few years ago, there was a debate on social media whether a woman’s dress was yellow or blue. The dress, of course, was blue. But some people were suggesting that it was yellow even if they were looking at it from the same screen. Now, a similar discussion has emerged over Mars photos shared by NASA. What do you see when you look at the photos? Pit or hill?
NASA said Mars photos show pits!
Mars photos shared by NASA are of pits and craters. Already in the image below, there is a zoomed-in version of the crater that we shared at the beginning of our news. In this way, it will be clearly understood that there is no peak.
However, as on the left side, there are many photos that we cannot tell whether it is a pit or a hill. In fact, it is not wrong to think that these are hills. Because if there were no rings on the topographic maps showing the roughness and elevation of the area, we would not be able to read these maps.
Of course, even if we have a topographic map, it is more difficult to interpret the images shared by NASA. Because there are dozens of hills in some craters, and there are pits and cliffs in them.
It is also said that some of these pits may be connected to each other underground. So it can be a network of tunnels, just like an underground city. However, it is quite remarkable that it remained this way for a long time despite the absence of life and that it formed spontaneously.
In addition, because the soil and rock structure of Mars is different from Earth’s, the landforms are also unusual. For example, the image on the left in the above photo is actually a hill. But there is another hill inside the pit inside. It is already inside a crater. So it has such an unusual appearance, probably because it takes the shape of the surface of the striking meteorite.
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