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Old 18-October-2004, 06:03 PM
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The Mars Global Surveyor released the latest glyph image that appears to evoke the kinds of communication in rock formations that has become famous among Mars' watchers on the internet. But there is a serious side to interpreting remote sensing data, and shadow is not always one's ally.
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That's great. I'm dismayed (in an amused kind of way) that the writer of the caption for the "hi" image felt it necessary to point out that the 400 m scale bar is roughly 437 yards long...
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Isn't a yard something that you have out the back of a house? Mine is 20 X 30 m. A yard is clearly a measurment of area, not distance, so there is something screwy with their maths, or at least metrology.

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Isn't a yard something that you have out the back of a house? Mine is 20 X 30 m. A yard is clearly a measurment of area, not distance, so there is something screwy with their maths, or at least metrology.

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That's a garden. A yard is 3 feet :P
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That's a garden. A yard is 3 feet :P
No, the yard is the back yard and besides feet are like hands for your legs.
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What about Scotland Yard?
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donno about you all but it looks like a crater and a rock pile........or some bluffs..... but im not *expert*
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