Mars rover finds "puddles" on the planet's surface

Mars rover finds "puddles" on the planet's surface

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A new analysis of pictures taken by the exploration rover Opportunity reveals what appear to be small ponds of liquid water on the surface of Mars.

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Rather surprising to me I didnt expect to find water in the area the landers are in.

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This a rather amazing discovery if it turns out to be true...Nice find

Cool very interesting.

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[edit on 10-6-2007 by UM_Gazz]

I have been thinking for some while now that the same effect of our global warming is happening on mars for some time now. I aint saying that we don't have a hand in global warming but...

To me its seems possible that by raising the temprature a litte that on the surface ice could melt easier , and maybe something happend while melting .Somewhere along the line of those huge "Methane" (not sure on that 1) deposits who are about to be released in the earth's atmosphere because of global warming.

So it made me wonder: Would the atmosphere of Mars be denser if there happend anything along the line i said above???

Nice Find m8 !!

Mars doesnt have a magnetic field like the Earth so the solar wind strips atmosphere from it. It has some atmosphere but because of a lack of magnetic field could never support an earthlike atmosphere unfortunately.

IMO the gov knows it's on the clock. The people are waking and they (GOV) can't hide this forever.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was scheduled so the Scientist could let this be known to we peons.

Calling Zorgon and John Lear and Observe50 oops! I'm here. We have been trying to tell you things aren't as you thought.

the sun is emitting at lots of energy right now. It's not surpising that there's water...

This claim has already been disproven. Click the OPs link, there is an update above the article. Apparently, the scientists that made the claim did not realize that the photos in question were of the interior side of a crater. That makes it impossible to have pooling liquid, let alone all the other reasons addressed in the article.