After several weeks of hiatus owing to problems with Mars Global Surveyor's High Gain Antenna (e.g., see JPL Release (April 16, 1999)) the Mars Orbiter Camera resumed operations during the final days of April 1999. Shown here is one of the first images returned after MOC began taking pictures again.
Warrego Valles is a system of discontinuous valleys located in the martian southern hemisphere south of Valles Marineris between Aonia Terra and Icaria Planum. This picture shows one of the small valleys in this system. The planet's surface both inside and outside the valley appears to be extremely rough. A person would would find this terrain challenging to walk around in. The picture is illuminated from the upper left and covers an area 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across.
As you can see in this pic the unusual cluster of formations.
The triangle shape and the square features on the land caught my eye.
This is a nice clear shot of the layout of this area.
You can see that triangle shaped area very well.
Just opposite of that is a half shaped circular formation.
There are many of these Stonehenge formations on Mars.
Here is a pic of that half circular area.
It is very hard to get a good perspective on what we are viewing.
The dark holed areas are not always deep caves or holes.
The appearance of them often becomes emphasized when you darken the pic to bring out detail.
By the time you get this close to see detail it gets pretty blurred.
It does let you see some, but pics like this do not do the area justice.
The Invert command creates a negative of an image.
The square shapes seem pretty precise.
This whole area seems mathematically constructed
What do you suppose this area could be?
I find this anomaly pretty unusual.
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