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I am not saying there is an ancient city in this crater. It
may be a pile of rubble
as is the city on the Cydonia
Plain. But I like to go with my first impressions. Cities are
to be expected near water. This city would have been built not
long after the last bombardment
from the destruction of the neighbor planet just above Mars.
There is an asteroid belt there now. As Mars died, a new city
was built underground on the sun side of the crater.
The city is about 1.2 Km (0.75 Mi) top to bottom as seen in
the image and 0.9 Km (0.6 MI) wide. This is reasonable for a
small walled community. Before the atmosphere evaporated to
unusable, a new city was built into the sun side of the crater.
Access and vents for this city can be seen on the lake side
of the crater wall across from the old city. At the upper left
edge of the ice lake is a vent and access to lower levels. To
the left and below this vent is an expanse of discolored ice.
This discoloration is just below the old city. Until it became
impossible to do so on the surface, some form of agriculture
would have been practiced at the lakes edge and in the shallows
while the lake was liquid. The vent at lakes edge is an access
point for mining ice to provide water for the new city.
From the input vent at the cold lakes edge through a system
of caverns to the output vents on the back side of the sun facing
rim of the crater nature had provided a perfect way to ventalate
the new city. The continuous flow of air could also be taped
to provide energy for the new city.
Is there a ruin in this crater? Current academically accepted
thinking disallows this out of hand. Microbes would be all right,
welcome even. But an ancient civilization, this can not be allowed.
But schools of academically accepted thinking are falling all
the time. And the data is insufficient to prove the point one
way or the other.
The lake is sufficient reason for further study of this crater.
Since we are going back to have a closer look at the lake, a
good look at both cities is in order. Only people on the ground
will solve it one way of the other.
Below these Mars Express image are images from the Viking Data.
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