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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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In terms <strong>of</strong> the rilles on a large body like<br />

Mars, material would first be ‘electrically<br />

pulverised’ by a traversing discharge event<br />

then drawn upward from the surface as<br />

all grades <strong>of</strong> debris, some <strong>of</strong> which would<br />

fall back to the planet to form rocky debris<br />

fields and some <strong>of</strong> which would be carried<br />

on into space as wandering meteoroids.<br />

Echus Chasma (1) Rille on Mars<br />

Credit ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)<br />

One need only consider basic physics and<br />

geology concepts while studying the now<br />

widely available detailed images <strong>of</strong> Mars’ surface to see that flowing liquid, surface crust movements and<br />

the assumed collapse <strong>of</strong> self-supporting kilometres wide lava tubes could never have produced the complex,<br />

smoothly formed and debris free rilles that <strong>of</strong>ten crisscross each other and indicate that if liquid were involved<br />

then it would have needed to flow in ways that defy basic physics. It seems clear instead that a traversing plasma<br />

discharge has been responsible for gouging rilles and for producing other significant surface features as well.<br />

Echus Chasma (2) Rille on Mars<br />

Credit ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)<br />

It is somewhat ironic that we have until now<br />

had NASA and ESA as the main originators and<br />

distributors <strong>of</strong> high-resolution imagery returned<br />

from their MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter)<br />

and Mars Express missions. These organisations<br />

are committed to releasing (usually slowly)<br />

imagery sent back from these missions into the<br />

public domain, but are at the same time the best<br />

known public adherents to standard theories.<br />

Detailed inspection <strong>of</strong> images by independent<br />

experts may then be the activity from which the<br />

abundant clues being revealed go on to prove<br />

beyond doubt how rilles and other Martian<br />

surface features have actually been formed.<br />

160 | The <strong>Electric</strong> <strong>Universe</strong> answers I see

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