Pretty much that’s what the picture looks like to me.
Reader’s of KSR’s “Mars trilogy” will probably be reminded of the Moholes.
Oh, that? I thought you were talking about Dan.
I, for one, will make an effort to inject “Go stick it up your Mars hole!” into my daily vernacular.
“It is northeast of Arsia Mons…”
Huh-huh. Huh-huh.
Nitpick: Would it really be a geological oddity? I know, the pickiest of nits, but what’s the linguistic alternative? Martiological oddity?
Also, what Hal said.
You know, I’m kind of concerned–it looks pretty reddish around the area… has Mars gone for its usual checkup lately?
Just watch out for the giant nocturnal Martian Sand Worms. Nasty critters those are.
I wonder how deep this hole is, it would be interesting if it was several Kilometers deep. Moholes indeed.
I wonder if the submaranian troglodytes of Mars will welcome their new overlords?
Jim
Geological will do fine, thank you. Do you think that a colonist is going to grab a handful of soil and say something like, “The mars seems fertile.”? Or that a rustic colonist would be described as “salt of the mars”? I personally intend to beat any of my fellow colonists like a baby harp seal if they something like, “Whoa! It feels like we’re having a marsquake!”
“So…uhh, did the Mars move for you, baby?”
Areological. Not that it’ll catch on.
Maybe Areanological, from Arean, “Mars-like.”
Mars is an asshole, at least in Hercules.
Zapp Brannigan: Behold the great stone face of Mars! The only known entrance to the Martian reservation.
Leela: What about the great stone ass of Mars?
Zapp: Well…yeah, but it’s all the way on the other side of the planet.
More and more Futurama is becoming an accurate representation of the future.
Point to Tuckerfan. Although I do like “areological.”
Hmm , what will we find on Venus then.
Declan
The second biggest mons venus in the solar system, after Queen Latifah’s?
Not to mention Uranus.
“It’s full of stars!”
And could it also be described as areological?
Proof, at long last, of the Hollow Mars Theory!