Posted on 04/11/2015 4:22:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As the midsummer Sun beats down on the southern mountains of Mars, bringing daytime temperatures soaring up to a balmy 25ºC (77ºF), some of their slopes become darkened with long, rusty stains that may be the result of water seeping out from just below the surface.
The image above, captured by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Feb. 20, shows mountain peaks within the 150-km (93-mile) -wide Hale Crater. Made from data acquired in visible and near infrared wavelengths the long stains are very evident, running down steep slopes below the rocky cliffs.
These dark lines, called recurring slope lineae (RSL) by planetary scientists, are some of the best visual evidence we have of liquid water existing on Mars today – although if RSL are the result of water it’s nothing you’d want to fill your astro-canteen with; based on the first appearances of these features in early Martian spring any water responsible for them would have to be extremely high in salt content.
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Man Made Global Warming ?
Paging the little dutch boy.
Alternately, someone tell Obama that something must be done about this leaky mountain.
It would be amusing.
Well, daggone it, if you go planting flags there of course there will be leaks.
Sheila Jackson Lee wants to know why Neil Armstrong didn’t fix this when he was there planting the flag.
I didn’t know Mars would get that warm.
Liquid water isn’t supposed to exist on Mars.
Send Baraq himself — he has personal experience at putting his finger in a dike.
Oh my gad INTER-PLANETARY GLOBAL WARMING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep in mind the surface temperature of Mars and the temperature 2 meters above the surface are vastly different.
It may be a balmy 77 degrees at your toes but your nose has severe frostbite.
He also could be the mission flight mechanic, he has experience with trannies..
lol
Send him with McCain......maybe they will find some lizard people to associate with....
Once the stains were noticed, the geological feature was renamed Blue Dress Crater.
LOL. Of course. We need to end those Mars missions are we're "all gonna die".
But I once heard that the historical temperature changes on the planets and earth are correlated. If so that would mean to any sensible person that it is the sun that is the variable. To Jerry Brown and the like it would mean that excess SeeOhToo on earth that is created by you and me is endangering life (if there is any) on Mars.
If we are lucky they will find Sleestaks.
Martian warming? Glad we’re not alone in the universe.
Looks like wind blown dust.
Zing! NICE ONE..!
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