Weird space stuff

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A better job of image processing (got too wild with the resampling last time).

Conventional interpretation 1: An arc-shaped chunk of surface got shifted to inside the crater perimeter some time after impact (quake?).
Fringe interpretation 1: The mined material (H2O?) was moved along the curved ramp to the loading platform for stowage, prior to lift-off.
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It is not a crater, it is the dome of a large airlock. You can also see the hinge at ~5:00 position and the locking mechanism along the right hand side. :)

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Don't forget the fossilized iguana and phaser rifle to the right of the spoon:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images ... 1_DXXX.jpg

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The "crab" someone found a month or so ago (~1/5 width from right, ~1/3 height from bottom):

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images ... 1_DXXX.jpg

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Another botched landing on Ceres. Only a tail fin remains...
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OK, the final enhancement (until low altitude orbit data arrives) of the strip mine on Ceres, engineered by fugitive Third Reich Space Nazis.
(Why does it always have to be Aliens?... reference - A.C.Clarke's "Postage Stamp" analogy - "Where’s Everybody?").
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That is just plain weird.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)

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Now that Dawn has been in a Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO) for weeks, it's hard to understand why this has not been made a high-priority imaging target. They've probably moved the "loader" on the curved ramp back into its bunker by now... :(

http://i.imgur.com/HGvKJOt.gifv

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DeltaV wrote:Now that Dawn has been in a Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO) for weeks, it's hard to understand why this has not been made a high-priority imaging target. They've probably moved the "loader" on the curved ramp back into its bunker by now... :(
DANG! Too late...

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2016/pdf/1820.pdf
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