Posted on 02/20/2003 10:13:38 AM PST by Frank_Discussion
Note from planetary scientist Pascal Lee with regard to an announcement made yesterday at NASA headquarters regarding a possible origin for gullies observed on Mars.
"The spacecraft data discussed by Phil Christensen is new and beautiful, but the interpretation of the martian gullies as resulting from the melting of snow and ice patches in response to obliquity (tilt) variations of Mars on timescales of 100,000 years or so is something my colleagues and I have proposed and published for the past three years.
Our model was proposed on the basis of terrestrial analog field studies we have conducted on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic under the auspices of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (www.marsonearth.org).
Bearing in mind that Mars is still a very mysterious place, we are happy that the data presented by Christensen seems to confirm our original interpretation and model."
It seems that NASA failed to give credit where credit is due in this case.
You know how hard it is to get a good plumber out to rural areas don't you?
Oh well, genius is never recognized in its own time :O(
Mars Orbiter Camera - Image M04-002912; narrow angle image taken in the Mare Acidalium region taken with a resolution of 3.05meters/pixel; Width = 1.85 km, Height = 1.09 km.
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