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What's painting dark streaks on Mars?
New Scientist ^
| 02/14/09
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.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; mars; space
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02/15/2009 11:17:32 AM PST
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KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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Members of the Barsoom Taggers street gang.
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02/15/2009 11:22:34 AM PST
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reg45
(Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
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02/15/2009 11:29:12 AM PST
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spokeshave
(Soft Power...bringing shaved ice to a gunfight)
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02/15/2009 11:30:15 AM PST
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Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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02/15/2009 12:12:04 PM PST
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phatus maximus
( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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02/15/2009 12:13:27 PM PST
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mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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err, ummm, I meant to say:
Bush’s fault
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02/15/2009 12:13:33 PM PST
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phatus maximus
( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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Transplanetary skid-marks?
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02/15/2009 12:22:24 PM PST
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Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
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"It's spring cleaning, silly!
The little woman says
stripes, so stripes it is."
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02/15/2009 12:22:37 PM PST
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NonValueAdded
(May God save America from its government)
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Martian, septic tank drain fields?
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02/15/2009 12:26:09 PM PST
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PSYCHO-FREEP
(WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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02/15/2009 12:42:37 PM PST
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JusPasenThru
(I'm not forgetting 8 years of Democrat Party treason.)
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Its Ivy growing on the dunes. Simple.
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02/15/2009 2:09:45 PM PST
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yazoo
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What’s causing them? The same ale e annes making crop circles. The streaks are the Martian equivalent of crop circles ... different lifeform they’re trying to communicate with.
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02/15/2009 2:13:32 PM PST
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MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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Guilty.. Next time i am up that way, will clean up sorry...
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02/15/2009 5:05:26 PM PST
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GSP.FAN
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This thread is worthless without pictures...
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Redcitizen
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