Spacecraft finds eruptions on Mars (southern polar ice cap and jets of carbon dioxide gas)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/16/06 | AP - Los Angeles

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On the Net:

Mars Odyssey camera

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Gas jets spawn dark 'spiders' and spots on Mars icecap

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(Image Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS)

DARK SPOTS (left) and fans scribble dusty hieroglyphics on top of the Martian south polar cap in two high-resolution MOC images taken in southern spring. Each image is about 2 miles wide. Click on the image to download a 976KB version.

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(Image Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS)

SPIDERS TRACE a delicate pattern on top of the residual polar cap, after the seasonal carbon-dioxide ice slab has disappeared. Next spring, these will likely mark the sites of vents when the CO2 icecap returns. This MOC image is about 2 miles wide. Click on the image to download an 824KB version

[GeronL]

BUMP-PING

[308MBR]

All this time I though "iknowthetruh" came from Uranus.

NOT ABUSING YOU, just trying to get the Admin Mod's attention without hitting the abuse button.

[GeronL]

#3, pic 'B' are those actual jets of carbon dioxide coming from beneath the surface???? An ACTUAL image?

[Sundog]

That was fun while it lasted.

[taxesareforever]

Global warming on Mars and nary a soul causing it. Go figure.

[308MBR]

Indeed it was.

A first for me, personal threat AND violence in one reply!

ROTFLMFAO!

[Rameumptom]

THE INVASION BEGINS... GNNAANNGKK GNA GNNAAKK

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Global warming on Mars and nary a soul causing it. Go figure. " that's why the Liberals/MSM have it wrong in naming it " Global Warming " instead it should be called Solar warming.

[aruanan]

Jets of carbon dioxide gas burst from the ice cap as it warms every spring

Hmmm, seasonal global warming leads to increased CO2 on Mars just as solar-caused global warming on Earth leads to increased atmospheric CO2 from methane released from marine methane hydrates.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

space ping.

[samtheman]

Scientists have thought the spots were part of the ground revealed as the ice disappeared.

Oh my god! The ice is disappearing on Mars too?! Does Al Gore know?!

[from occupied ga]

If you were there, you'd be standing on a slab of carbon dioxide ice,"

Ug what a horrible place. Man's future is NOT in space.

[SunkenCiv]

SAND-LADEN JETS SHOOT into the polar sky in this view by noted space artist Ron Miller. It shows the Martian south polar icecap as southern spring begins. Click on the image to download a 5.6MB version. (Image Credit: Arizona State University/Ron Miller)

Nice simulation / artist's conception.

[SunkenCiv]

dusty hieroglyphics

More like cuneiform. ;')

[RightWhale]

you'd be standing on a slab of carbon dioxide ice

It's dry ice. Don't need to go to Mars to stand on that; it is used in the food industry. Standing on dry ice would not be a good idea, BTW.

[GeronL]

Mars is warming up though.