Thread: Pretty pictures from Mars Express
View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)  
Old 21-February-2004, 12:27 AM
Swift's Avatar
Swift Swift is offline
Moderator
  
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: The beautiful north coast (Ohio)
Posts: 17,776
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by aurora
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amadeus
Those cracks in the crater look a bit like stretch marks. Could these be formed by the magma chamber cooling and shrinking?
Probably. Or as the caldera floor continued to settle after the eruption ended.
There are similar (but MUCH smaller) cracks on the floor of the several caldera floors around Volcano National park in Hawaii.
__________________
At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple
Reply With Quote