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Old 19-02-2011, 07:30 AM
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Who's rover is this?

This photo is from FB it appears to be from NASA's LROC?

Any idea whether this is real or a fake and if it is real which rover is it going by the resolution someone worked out it must be over 60 feet wide
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Old 19-02-2011, 10:28 AM
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Very interesting.
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Old 19-02-2011, 11:18 AM
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If you look at this image in context it is on the wall of the rille.

My guess is that it is some rocks that have rolled down the edge of the wall of the rille.

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M129635733RE
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Old 19-02-2011, 11:25 AM
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If you look at this image in context it is on the wall of the rille.

My guess is that it is some rocks that have rolled down the edge of the wall of the rille.

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M129635733RE
Yeah, it's nobody's rover, just rocks. LROC has lots of images of sliding boulders - doesn't even look like a wheeled track (which would be 10m wide anyway), just a series of gouges. There are lots of boulder clusters just like this one along Vallis Schroteri in the 'big strip'.

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Bet it shook him when he ran that big gibber over.

Tested out the shockies.

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