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re: active geyser vs passive spot
Michael Gmirkin — (archived)

Just a bunch of photographic examples of different types and concentrations of spiders.

a) Individual "Spiders":
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo1201762b.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo1201762a.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/may2003/e1300520.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/old/object51.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e1200836c.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo801169c.jpg.htm

b) Groups of spiders:
http://www.martianspiders.com/e1003496b.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e1003496c.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo801169.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo801169b.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo801333.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo801451b.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo900407c.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo1102686a.jpg.htm

c) Chaotic terrain:
http://www.martianspiders.com/e0701468.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e902694.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e1102247.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo800197.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo900407.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo1004753.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo1103706.jpg.htm

d) Spiders associated with blackened streaks or other odd features:
http://www.martianspiders.com/e0700829.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e0702165b.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e0800043.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/e0801508.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo900547.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo900642b.jpg.htm
http://www.martianspiders.com/eo1201762c.jpg.htm (Association with a central crater.)
http://www.martianspiders.com/e0800031b.jpg.htm (Association with black streaks and either "geysers" or "dust devils." Insufficient resolution to tell concretely. Though I tend toward dust devils or other vortexed ejecta systems.)

Anywho, take a look at some of the grouped and chaotic terrain photos. It may sound dumb, but go with your gut reaction. Don't they LOOK electrical? I mean you've basically got a ton of electrical arcs scarring the surface, and even interconnecting. This region had to have been massively electrically active at some point in its past to discharge on such a scale.

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