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PROVIDENCE — Mars, the cold desiccated world known as the Red Planet, appears to have had water flowing across its surface much more recently than scientists had believed.
Brown University researchers have identified a formation showing repeated deposits of sediment that seem to have been deposited by flowing water. The oldest deposit is just 1.25 million years old.
“That is very young for Mars,” said Samuel Schon, a Brown graduate student who authored the new study published yesterday in the journal Geology. “This is showing we’ve had transient liquid water appearing recently.”
Spirit drove down off Home Plate on Jan. 6, 2009. It subsequently checked whether a patch of nearby soil, called "Stapledon," had a high concentration of silica, like a silica-rich patch of soil Spirit discovered east of Home Plate in 2007. The earlier discovery was interpreted as evidence left by a hot-spring or steam-vent environment. Examination with Spirit's alpha particle X-ray spectrometer confirmed silica at Stapledon. This indicates that the environment that deposited the silica was not limited to the location found earlier.
If this isn't water, i will eat my 3 year old houseshoe (without a glass of water):
Originally posted by Exuberant1
-Note how many debunkers repeatedly utilize in their arguments the images of craters other than those we have identified as possibly having domes - The latest one who tried to use Victoria Crater is a prime example of this tactic in use. Do not take the bait.
Cheers!!
Originally posted by merka
I seriously doubt that's water, unless it defy the physical laws of gravity.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Like that Victoria Crater image being used as an example that 'domes' on Mars are all optical illusions! Like comparing apples and oranges! Jeeez!
So those muddy tracks leading up to the puddle and away from it further substantiate and corroborate the idea that there is water in this image.
Originally posted by merka
Originally posted by mikesingh
Like that Victoria Crater image being used as an example that 'domes' on Mars are all optical illusions! Like comparing apples and oranges! Jeeez!
But both apples and oranges in sand will create the same looking dome!
Originally posted by ArMaP
Also, and although I can not find information about it, I suppose Lunar Orbiter was taking photos perpendicularly to the ground, so a tower would be seen just as the top, not as a long structure.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
If this isn't water, i will eat my 3 year old houseshoe (without a glass of water).
WASHINGTON (AFP) Sep 30, 2008 — In an unprecedented discovery, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has found snow falling from clouds on Mars, scientists said Tuesday.
A laser instrument collecting data on how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars detected snow from clouds about four kilometers (2.5 miles) above the spacecraft's landing site. The date found the snow vaporized before reaching the ground.
"Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars," said Jim Whiteway, of York University, Toronto, lead scientist for the Canadian-supplied Meteorological Station on Phoenix. "We'll be looking for signs that the snow may even reach the ground."
The presence of large concentrations of hydrogen have been detected by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer suite of instruments on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
The models and measurements are consistent with a water-ice table that steadily increases in depth with decreasing latitude. More detailed modelling has predicted that the depth at which water ice is stable can be highly variable, owing to local surface heterogeneities such as rocks and slopes, and the thermal inertia of the ground cover.
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