jueves, marzo 23, 2006

Ruinas en Eros


La expedición NEAR de la terrícola NASA descubrió en el asteroide Eros algunas ruinas de una humanidad creada en un planeta al que dejamos convertido en lo que uestedes llaman el cinturón de asteroides...

Según la NASA se trata de formaciones naturales, muy frecuentes en la naturaleza:

Pictures taken during the low-orbit phase of NEAR Shoemaker's mission to Eros are revealing the true appearance of an asteroid's surface. Eros is turning out to have diverse surface types ranging from flat to hilly, smooth to rocky, and monotonously cratered to unique in character.
This picture was taken for "optical navigation," that is, plotting the spacecraft's course by tracking the positions of the landmarks below. It caught a spectacular view of a horizon sculpted by worn, degraded craters and punctuated by jagged boulders. The angular boulder at the center of the frame is about 60 meters (197 feet) tall, or two-thirds the length of a football field. Angular rocks are very common in nature; the corners form as a rock is chipped out of a larger mass.
This image was taken May 18, 2000, from an orbital altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles). The whole scene is about 1.4 kilometers (0.8 miles) across, and it shows features as small as 4 meters (13 feet).

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