blam, the “fluffy” stuff brought to mind the fluffy comet impact discussed in “Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes”.
Red Planet’s Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 04/24/2005 11:18:25 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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‘Pack ice’ suggests frozen sea on Mars
New Scientist | 2/21/05 | Kelly Young
Posted on 05/23/2005 10:15:45 AM EDT by RockinRight
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Immense ice deposits found at south pole of Mars
Reuters via Yahoo! | 3-16-07 | Will Dunham
Posted on 03/15/2007 4:01:58 PM EDT by Pharmboy
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Mars once riddled with deep waterMars was once latticed by an underground water system, scientists have reported... NASA's Martian rover, Opportunity, in its exploration of a vast sloping plain called Meridiani Planum... found sulphate-rich sediments that some experts claimed were the remains of seas that once washed over the planet. Others, though, pointed out that the site at Meridiani Planum was not a basin, and thus could not enclose such a huge amount of water... Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna and colleagues... theorise that the water has bubbled up from underground... The computer model devised by Andrews-Hanna and his colleagues extends far beyond the spot where Opportunity found the hydrated sulphate salt minerals.
Agence France-Presse
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Cosmos Magazine