Enormous plumes detected erupting on Red Planet

a reply to: canucks555

Seems I remember some of the first indications of a 'Martian Invasion" in "War of the Worlds" were large plums of dust seem through telescopes.
Perhaps fiction is about to become reality.

A little looking found me that this has happened before, and this particular event was from 3 years ago. While scientists with their fancy-shmancy telescopes say it may be gaseous in nature, it sure looks like what an impact on Mars would do. That is just my hypothetical guess though.

a reply to: Gothmog

Ha...you're not the only one who "suffers" from that.

originally posted by: SlapMonkey
a reply to: Gothmog

Ha...you're not the only one who "suffers" from that.

Thats 2 of us and I count Greathouse as a 3rd.

Prepare the Phage signal!

originally posted by: Swills
Prepare the Phage signal!

I was hoping from Phage input on this one.

Yes this is so yesterday.

I dont remember when the rover first landed and sent back pictures.

But when it did I posted here somewhere on my thread detailing with images smaller plumes.

Of course my reception was, its rocks, there is no water on mars, bla bla.

Wish I could find that thread again. Wondering if the pictures still exist in it that I posted. What a blast from the past for me.

But yes, there is water in mars, and there are many small plumes to find, and apparently some bigguns too.

Here it is smurky, I accidentally bumped your thread as well hahah,
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Stole your thunder I did. Either way it's good to sometimes keep the discussion going longer than a day or two..

a reply to: canucks555

You stole no thunder.
The brontide is heard by everyone.

Sure hate the images are gone. I hope ATS has them in a backup file somewhere. I may, may that is, have them on my home server somewhere, but I have terrabytes to sort through nowadays. I would have no idea where to start looking.

originally posted by: LostAndFound2
a reply to: canucks555

Holy shat look at that ...

Could this be how Mars lost its atmosphere

It is interesting and may have some substance, actually.

I think now that weather cannot be taken completely out of the equation. If we consider Mars at equilibrium with the atmosphere it did/could have, and the one that the planet will now sustain, the cause for that is still present. There could be storms so intense that material does leave the atmosphere and go into space. They would probably be like huge vortex's. They could be like valves, if you will.