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Vivid images reveal an ancient, dried-up river system on Mars that stretches 435 MILES
DAILYMAIL ^ | 16 October 2019 | STACY LIBERATORE

Posted on 10/17/2019 7:27:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

ESA released stunning images of an ancient river in Nirgal Vallis that once flowed on Mars

By studying the surrounding craters, the branching remains are said to be between 3.5 and 4 billion years old

Detailed images of Mars reveal an ancient river that once flowed on the red planet.

Spanning nearly 435 miles across the surface, the valley stream is named Nirgal Vallis and experts said it was shaped by flowing water and impacts.

By exploring the characteristics of the surrounding craters, the European Space Agency has estimated the system’s age to be between 3.5 and 4 billion years old.

Spanning nearly 435 miles across the surface, the valley stream is named Nirgal Vallis and experts said it was shaped by flowing water and impacts

The valley, deemed one of the largest on Mars, sits south of the planet’s equator, which experts believe was ‘shaped by a mix of flowing water and impacts: events where rocks sped inwards from space to collide with the Martian surface,’ the Europe Space Agency (ESA) shared in a press release.

The images were captured by a spacecraft’s High Resolution Stereo Camera, which the ESA has employed to map the entire surface of Mars in full color and high resolution.

The area in the picture shows the western end of the river system, where it is slowly spreading out and dissipates.

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To: null and void

Never read it. Not much of a reader.

But that’s a tantalizing piece from it.

Did the book include the same time frame as the movie?

I remember a military that looked maybe 1940s or 50s in the movie.


21 posted on 10/17/2019 8:00:28 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Are there any fish?


22 posted on 10/17/2019 8:01:05 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: rawcatslyentist

Interesting. Not sure I buy into it where Mars canals are concerned, but nature does many amazing things both on the micro and the macro scale.


23 posted on 10/17/2019 8:02:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: null and void
My favourite quite from WotW:

"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes -

and slowly and surely they drew their plans against us."

24 posted on 10/17/2019 8:06:25 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: agere_contra
Quite Quote
25 posted on 10/17/2019 8:07:29 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: Magnum44; Raycpa
I don't know, I might have to ditch my theory. This looks pretty much like the tributaries you mention. A larger image of this area I just took in Google Earth, it is a tourist trap with a hiking trail and all. lol


26 posted on 10/17/2019 8:10:45 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: faucetman

Anyone name the river yet—How about Issus? For those who know Barsoom.


27 posted on 10/17/2019 8:13:09 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound ovil.f the guns!)
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To: Openurmind

And I checked elevations, it does run from uphill to downhill left to right on the image.


28 posted on 10/17/2019 8:14:47 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: dp0622

I believe the movie (and the radio broadcast) updated the book to contemporary times. The book deals with the menace using good cutting-edge late 19th century technology.


29 posted on 10/17/2019 8:15:31 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: MarvinStinson

I guess they will announce petrified SUVs, cows and airliners soon.


30 posted on 10/17/2019 8:24:48 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: dp0622

It’s simply amazing. Rich detail of day-to-day British life set in 1905, written in 1897, the cultural and historic data (up to the flashes seen on Mars) can’t help but be accurate.

The story from the landing of the first Martian cylinder are plausible, the depicted reactions of the British are true to what a man on the street, and what government agencies would do.

The 1953 George Pal version is OK, but like most screen plays, not very true to the book.

The five movie versions (I have all five) of the tale released in 2005 are pale comparisons.

Perhaps an audio book would better fit your life? I listened to it while driving (several times!). Get an unabridged version. All the abridgements I’ve listened to simply left too much on the cutting room floor.


31 posted on 10/17/2019 8:41:51 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: null and void

What you did there. I see it.


32 posted on 10/17/2019 8:43:49 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: agere_contra

The part that made me shudder as a 10-year old (and still does!) was in the coal cellar when the probing tentacle touched the heel of his boot.


33 posted on 10/17/2019 8:45:58 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: MarvinStinson

like a lava flow Positive, rather than a river bed negative.


34 posted on 10/17/2019 8:50:42 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: going hot

A trick of light and shadow. the image was illuminated from the bottom, a very unnatural way to view things. Rotate it 180° and the illusory ridge turns into a valley.


35 posted on 10/17/2019 8:58:24 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: going hot

Man, now you have me going with that. I am going to have to go deeper to find out.


36 posted on 10/17/2019 9:00:38 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: null and void
Must be years of marination in etoh, but I cannot get the monitor in any degree of rotation that reverses the bulge.

Regardless, how did the water get there, and where is it?

Assuming it was water.

37 posted on 10/17/2019 9:02:37 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: null and void
Also, most river beds start with a trickle, then join others to form larger and larger channels.

Thus there is feathering at the smaller branches upstream on dry beds.

These beds, and their tribs have rounded ends, more like a flow going in the opposite direction, then cooling off, similar to ice or lava flows on this planet.

At least with the depiction above.

38 posted on 10/17/2019 9:05:37 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: going hot; null and void

I just went and zoomed in and it is indeed a valley. Everything matches the impact craters next to it. If you look in the lighter image strip areas in the image I posted above you can see this.


39 posted on 10/17/2019 9:06:01 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: going hot

In the image I posted above, the elevation does go downhill from left to right. Not right to left. I checked it while I was there capturing it just to make sure.


40 posted on 10/17/2019 9:08:04 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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