"Happy dark streaks..."
Posted on 02/15/2009 11:17:03 AM PST by KevinDavis
WHAT'S painting Mars? Every spring, dark streaks appear on its polar dunes, which may be caused by liquid water near the surface - a fillip for the hunt for life.
The dark streaks of sand a few metres wide slide downslope at about a metre a day. "They show a branching pattern, so it seems like some liquid material is flowing," says Akos Kereszturi at the Collegium Budapest in Hungary.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
"Happy dark streaks..."
Don't tell my wife. She has enough dealing with the ones in her own little world. :-)
It’s a giant
There’s no toilet paper on Mars...
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