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MAA-007: Three Mounds
- Image Analysis Report

Image Analysis Report
IMAGE DETAILS
MAA Report Ref: MAA-007
Report Date: July-August 2017
Description: Three Mounds
Research Status: Open - Possible buildings/monuments
Approximate size: 20-25m each object
Mission images/dates: MGS April 1999
Location: Terra Meridiani
Found by: Unknown
Image credits: (See image captions)
Graphics/image editing: Mars Archaeology Archive
Image sources: (See image captions)
OBSERVATIONS
An interesting group of objects, but something geology can easily produce.
POTENTIAL FOR ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES
Alignment of three mounds similar in size and in distance from each other.
COMMON EXPLANATION
Remnant buttes formed by geological erosion of surrounding softer rock.

MAA-007.1 Three Mounds Close-up - MGS 1999
Image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS
Original Image source (image shown) but no longer available at MSSS: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/nonmaps/M0001661.gif
PDS image source: https://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/m00016/m0001661c.jpg
