Island City

From Mars Global Surveyor, orbit 37, image #4: Traverse Highlands Channel Arda Valles and Massifs
Latitude:         -18.69°
Longitude:      33.71°

When I first viewed this area in the MGS archives, what caught my eye was the parallel grooves and other linear features. After processing with Maximum Entropy Deconvolution, the details have become more visible. Study this area closely, you  may be surprised at what you may find...

 

This is a 2x enlargement of the terraces and surrounding area

Above images copyright © Steve Wingate and Anomalous Images. All rights reserved.
 

Click here for a relatively unprocessed image. (Processed by Anomalous Images directly from the raw MGS image:  FFT-filtered for periodic noise, destriped, and linearly-stretched)  Compare to images above.
 

 The following images bear a startling resemblence to the terrace discovered on Mars. Could these features have been inspired, and perhaps even built, by the same intelligent beings?

The same intensive farming methods used in the mountains of Peru would be very well adapted to the thin atmosphere of Mars when water and life may have been abundant in the distant past, before the cataclysm.

Pisaq, Peru

This image copyright © Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester

Inca Terrace at Pisaq

This image copyright © Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester

Terraces at Macchu Picchu, Peru

This image copyright © Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester

All images above processed by Steve Wingate and Anomalous Images.

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