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MIA007: Three Mounds
MIA007: Three Mounds
IMAGE DETAILS
Mars Report Ref: MIA007
Report Date: July-August 2017
Description: Three Mounds
Research Status: Open - Possible buildings/monuments
Approximate size: 20-25 m each object
Mission images/dates: MGS April 1999
Location: Terra Meridiani
Found by: Unknown
Image credits: See image captions
Graphics/image editing: M. J. Craig
Image sources: See image captions
OBSERVATIONS
An interesting group of objects, but something geology can easily produce.
POTENTIAL FOR ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES
Alignment of three mounds similar in size and in distance from each other.
COMMON EXPLANATION
Remnant knobs/buttes formed by geological erosion of surrounding softer rock.
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MIA007.2 Three Mounds Distant - MGS 1999
Image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS
​Image source: See MAA-007.1
MIA007.1 Three Mounds Close-up - MGS 1999
​Image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS
Original Image source (image shown) but no longer available at MSSS: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/nonmaps/M0001661.gif
PDS image source: https://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/m00016/m0001661c.jpg
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