[HN Gopher] Ancient ocean coastal deposits imaged on Mars
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       Ancient ocean coastal deposits imaged on Mars
        
       Author : domofutu
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-03-10 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | dylan604 wrote:
       | I look at the raw data scans like in Fig 2, and for the life of
       | me am not convinced they just make stuff up in the other charts.
       | It's just one of those things where being so not familiar with
       | the raw data makes it hard to really see it for what it is.
       | Similar to how some people don't understand FLIR images are heat
       | readings and not black&white video. Lot's of "fun" TV shows
       | trying to prove/disprove something underground with ground
       | penetrating radar, yet the results are just never really
       | convincing unless "you want to believe". Otherwise, they are very
       | Rorschach looking to me. It's almost like the raw data is someone
       | drawing a circle, and then the pretty charts is where someone
       | drew the rest of the fucking owl.
       | 
       | I guess this says more about my level of disbelief of any new
       | studies like this though
        
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