Posted on 02/18/2007 3:23:54 PM PST by KevinDavis
A high resolution camera mounted on a spaceship orbiting Mars has found evidence that water once ran under the planet's surface. The geological features could be probed for fossil evidence for past life or used to point to other regions of the planet where running water - and maybe life - can be found today.
The pictures were taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which was launched in August 2005 and began sending data back from the planet in November last year. They show discoloured rocky ridges in the Candor Chasma, part of a massive canyoned region at the equator called the Valles Marineris, the largest geological rift in the solar system. The ridges are evidence of chemical changes caused by a fluid (almost certainly water) as it flowed down a fissure in the rock.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Spaceship? Interplanetary, too.
Ice?
Sure looks like some water came out of there in the past couple years.
Two words.. Marsward Ho!!!!!
Let's ask why they chose THESE false colors for this image. Mars' surface is NOT BLUE! Water color... right. I think there is another explanation.
Contrast, cutting through dust, etc.
No... they can do that with other colors than water colors...
same chasm, no blue:
http://www.esa.int/images/144-161204-0360-4-co_L.jpg
18 mb jpeg, same chasm:
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsexpress/144-161204-0360-4-co-Candor.jpe
It will be called: "Dan Quayle was Right".
In fact, let's draft him for President.
He's not a RINO, from all I can tell... :-)
Cheers!
:')
Last I heard, he was in Cremona.
It's been done. Good article too.
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