Possibility of recently (-5 years) flowing water on Mars!

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Possibility of recently (-5 years) flowing water on Mars!

Post #1by buggs_moran » 06.12.2006, 19:14

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index.html

Very cool. They have found recent evidence for those gullies on Mars.
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Post #2by revent » 06.12.2006, 20:28

That link will become outdated before too long, since it's to the top page. Here's the actual article.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mgs-20061206.html

There are two locations cited, and if you look at the hi-res images it seems pretty clear that there was definitely flowing liquid of some sort.

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Post #3by Dollan » 06.12.2006, 20:37

Just as intriguing are the images of new craters on the surface, and the degree of impacting that this implies for modern-day Mars. It is especially interesting to think, then, what this means for those regions which are relatively crater-free....

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