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Whereas the Earth was probably hit repeatedly by objects up to 500 km across which would have vaporized the oceans and created a deadly steam atmosphere (see Earth, early conditions), fewer giant impacts would have taken place on Mars (because it is a smaller target) and the absence of large amounts of surface water would have saved the planet from being as severely steam-sterilized. Any Martian thermophiles living just a few hundred meters below the surface, it has been suggested, would have been able to survive the trauma of collision with a 500-km-wide object. Furthermore, because of Mars' relatively cool interior and low gravity (allowing cracks, in which microbes could reside, to extend further down into the planet's interior) thermophilic subterranean organisms may have existed in a wide habitable zone extending to depths of several thousand meters. On Earth, by comparison, although thermophiles 1 km below the surface might have survived an ocean-boiling impact this would have left an uncomfortably narrow habitable zone – much below 1 km and microbes would probably be cooked by the planet's hot interior.8, 9
The most likely origin for these features is that minerals that were dissolved in WATER came out of solution and became part of the rock material lining the fractures
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. The alteration along fractures, concentrated by the underground fluids, marks locations where we can expect to find key information about chemical and perhaps biologic processes in a SUBSURFACE environment that may HAVE BEEN HABITABLE!!! "
Originally posted by blue bird
Zorgon - can you tell something about “soul catcher“?
Originally posted by blue bird
Mars is specially mysterious when it come to 'craters' - there are so many 'minicraters'...so many of them are unbelievably flat and perfectly rounded...some looks like 'polygons'...some are especially surrounded by veil of secret - like 'Crater with Dome'!?
Originally posted by Matyas
remote viewing navigation system...
...Still though, isn't it fun? Let's share the movie rights
APPEARANCE OF MARS, 1852, FEBRUARY 3, 6 H. 50 M., Greenwich Mean Time. Power of Telescope, 242 and 358 on 6⅓ inch object-glass
APPEARANCE OF MARS, 1852, MARCH 23, 5 H. 45 M., Greenwich Mean Time. Power of Telescope, 358; 6⅓ inch object-glass.
There is another theory about Mars, certainly not so absurd as either of those just named, but scarcely supported by evidence at present—the idea, namely, advanced by a French astronomer, that the ruddy color of the lands and seas of Mars is due to red trees and a generally scarlet vegetation. Your poet Holmes refers to this in those lines of his, "Star-clouds and Wind-clouds" (to my mind among the most charming of his many charming poems):
"The snows that glittered on the disc of Mars
Have melted, and the planet's fiery orb
Rolls in the crimson summer of its year."
It is quite possible, of course, that such colors as are often seen in American woods in the autumn-time may prevail in the forests and vegetation of Mars during the fullness of the Martian summer. The fact that during this season the planet looks ruddier than usual, in some degree corresponds with this theory. But it is much better explained, to my mind, by the greater clearness of the Martian air in the summer-time. That would enable us to see the color of the soil better. If our earth were looked at from Venus during the winter-time, the snows covering large parts of her surface, and the clouds and mists common in the winter months, would hide the tints of the surface, whereas these would be very distinct in clear summer weather.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Do we see this action in other parts of the Martian Planet? I see quite a bit of water erosion, modest amounts of wind erosion...could that be what is responsible for such things as this:
This salt pan, located in Death Valley, California, is a natural depression where water accumulated, evaporated, and left behind salt deposits
Originally posted by Matyas
remote viewing navigation system...
Does anyone here know such a person? If so...that would make for a good thread.
At his independent website, Image Analyst, Keith Laney, shows alternative conclusions and
possible color corrections for THEMIS image data. Keith is also a well-respected image
processing volunteer at Ames Research Center. He is one of the most well-qualified independent
interpreters of THEMIS data in the world. But never have his independent color assessments
been allowed to be posted at the NASA websites to show differing expert opinion about color
schemes for THEMIS. Obviously, the work Keith has done is respectable and would go far to
contribute to the discussion about correct color calibrations.
Keith Laney has been providing good analysis for making the correct settings for THEMIS true
color:and IR interpretations, and for using different image enhancement software (ISIS) which is
able to interpret the data from THEMIS with far better results. These new strides in image
interpretation should be recognized and heralded in the NASA peer review process, and
collaboration should be celebrated at NASA with outstanding image processing talent as Keith
represents.
Then in 2004, the European Space Agency took it’s first full color image of the Gusev crater. What made the ESA image so immediately interesting was the fact that the “dark mass” features seen streaking portions of the floor of the 90-mile-wide Crater in the NASA imaging (left). Can now be seen in true color by ESA revealed by Mars Express (right) to be various amazing shades of G R E E N ! ( big lett. by me)