To: SunkenCiv
It would be nice if we could see the true colors. I keep thinking that Mars must have a lot of copper when I see these false-color images, LOL!
6 posted on
08/08/2011 7:31:50 AM PDT by
TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
It'll never take me alive. ;') It's iron oxide.
- Red planet's hue due to meteors, not water -- "There is something of a paradox about Mars," agrees Joshua Bandfield of Arizona State University in Tempe. His team recently showed that the planet has no large deposits of carbonates, which should have formed if giant pools of water had persisted on the surface. Bandfield suggests that liquid water must have occasionally burst out of the ground, carving channels and gullies, but that it quickly froze again in the frigid Martian climate.
9 posted on
08/08/2011 8:27:58 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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