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Water Ice In Crater At Martian North Pole
European Space Agency ^
| July 28, 2005
| ESA
Posted on 07/29/2005 12:39:05 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion
The HRSC on ESA's Mars Express obtained this perspective view on 2 February 2005 during orbit 1343 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 metres per pixel. It shows an unnamed impact crater located on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of Mars's far northern latitudes, at approximately 70.5° North and 103° East.
The crater is 35 kilometres wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 2 kilometres beneath the crater rim. The circular patch of bright material located at the centre of the crater is residual water ice.
The colours are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times. The view is looking east.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ice; mars; marsexploration; nasa; water
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To: RightWhale
Mr. Whale, you have GOT to see this!
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:57:35 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:58:05 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Frank_Discussion
With some photo shop and a good camera, that could just as easily be a coco-puff falling into a bowl of milk.
&^)
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:58:11 PM PDT
by
SGCOS
(must stick with the radical right wing supremacist theme, don't you know.)
To: Frank_Discussion
Personally I hope we start seeing rockets that are plastered with company logos like NASCAR cars.
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:58:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: Kevin OMalley
Where there is water, there is life.
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:58:31 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: SGCOS
"I'm cookoo for Martian residual water ice!"
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:59:45 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Frank_Discussion
How far is the Spirit and Opportunity rovers from this crater ?
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posted on
07/29/2005 12:59:49 PM PDT
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: 6SJ7
SPACE HOCKEY! The time is NOW!
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:00:10 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: oldleft
I think Europeans have done enough damage to this planet already, let's not infect a second one. The US and Japan and maybe India would be a fine team for this.
Of course the best part about colonizing Mars is that there will be no Muslims there to screw it up!
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:01:06 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Free Michael Graham!)
To: oldleft; teenyelliott; najida; Dashing Dasher; cyborg
...studying the mating habits of the green-eyed three pronged horny mosquito. Somebody call me?
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:01:10 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: oldleft
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:01:24 PM PDT
by
johnny7
(Racially-profiling since 1963)
To: Prophet in the wilderness
Not sure, but I'd bet too far to get to it. It's a polar site, and the landers have all be near the equator, so I'd expect thousands of miles seperate the regions.
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:01:38 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Oberon
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:03:16 PM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(In life... the learning curve is vertical!)
To: Oberon
I didn't know your eyes were green!
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:03:53 PM PDT
by
najida
(Now living with cutting edge 1950's technology.)
To: thoughtomator; johnny7
OK, how about just Poland and the UK? Maybe Italy. Of course, the US inexplicably has no heavy lift capability, so Russia may come in handy too.
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:05:47 PM PDT
by
oldleft
To: Frank_Discussion
Why do I forsee the space equivalent of an RV dump and hookup? (The thought of 6 months worth of gray water going back into the soil there should drive the enviros nuts.)
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:05:55 PM PDT
by
datura
(Molon Labe)
To: Frank_Discussion
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:07:14 PM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Dems: "It can't be done" Reps. "Move, we'll find a way or make a way. It has to be done!")
To: Frank_Discussion
I wonder if NASA has already done their surveying of this sight on Mars ?
We won't know if it's truly water until they get a actual test sample of it.
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: Frank_Discussion
How much do you tip the waiter?
The timing of this announcement is very... fortuitous. It makes me wonder how long this has been known in the inside circles.
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posted on
07/29/2005 1:08:49 PM PDT
by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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