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Circumscribed Mound with Dolmens and Ashlars |
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Traverse across sharp contacts and steep slope in E Phlegra Montes | |||||
NASA Catalog: | http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/fha009/fha00972.html |
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This feature is about 1680 m top to bottom x 850 m across the "ball of the foot" area.
Commentary by Greg Stockton This is not a natural formation. At the very first
glance, I said, "Battlements." Logic tells me that this is
unlikely. A much better defensive formation could be found on higher
ground. Also, we would probably be dealing with high tech warfare,
which would render such a formation obsolete. Still, someone went to
a great deal of trouble to dig a deep trench and mound the excavated earth
into a perfectly shaped wall. No chance, none at all, that this
could occur naturally. The wall is an unbroken unity of uniform
height. How could this be natural? The trench follows the
inside of the wall all the way around without varying. If by |
Looking to the inside, notice that a number of
respectably sized stones are clustered in several groups. The
outside ground has no similar rocks or shapes. Are we looking at a
Martian Stonehenge? The round formation near the heel/instep
junction is particularly suspicious. Are those dolmens and
ashlars? Recall that Stonehenge itself is circumscribed by a
similar trench and mound. I suspect a religious or philosophical
motivation for the origin of this entire design.
This cluster of dark objects from the lower-left edge of the "footprint" is ~25 m in diameter -- not unlike Earth's own Stonehenge. |
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