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Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase Of Science Mission
Science Daily ^ | Dec. 17, 2008

Posted on 12/23/2008 3:43:50 AM PST by CE2949BB

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: mars; marsorbiter; mro; nasa; orbiter; space
This story is a few days old, but I didn't find anything else posted.
1 posted on 12/23/2008 3:43:50 AM PST by CE2949BB
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To: KevinDavis

Moon’s Polar Craters Could Be The Place To Find Lunar Ice, Scientists Report
Science Daily | Dec. 18, 2008
Posted on 12/23/2008 3:39:40 AM PST by CE2949BB
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2153096/posts


2 posted on 12/23/2008 3:58:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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To: CE2949BB

Mars. It’s what Earth will look like if there is no Global Warming.


3 posted on 12/23/2008 4:24:32 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: CE2949BB

Jeeze. Those few Mars landers we humans put there have already caused global climate change?


4 posted on 12/23/2008 5:18:23 AM PST by CPOSharky (Coming up: Four years of Jimmuh Cartah on crack.)
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re: found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change

Wouldn't you think a spacecraft able to identify these changes would be able to make photos of the SUV’s that must have been present to cause such changes? Do I smell cover-up here?

5 posted on 12/23/2008 5:47:33 AM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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Jeeze. Those few Mars landers we humans put there have already caused global climate change?

I think it was this guy....


6 posted on 12/23/2008 5:52:24 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: CE2949BB; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; Desdemona; rdl6989; ...
Obviously this is a evidence of a need to tax and regulate the Barsoomians to prevent a solar system crisis.



Beam me to Planet Gore !

7 posted on 12/23/2008 6:13:37 AM PST by steelyourfaith
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8 posted on 12/23/2008 5:25:28 PM PST by KevinDavis (Thomas Jefferson: A little rebellion now and then is a good thing)
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To: KevinDavis

Thanks for the ping.


9 posted on 12/23/2008 8:34:49 PM PST by GOPJ (Gun Control-:- like trying to control stray dogs by neutering veterinarians.- G. Jonas)
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