Captain Plutonium
12-06-2006, 07:00 PM
This is strange
<QUOTE>The research team looked at two photographs of the same crater, one taken in August 1999, and the other in September 2005, which showed a gully that had not previously been there. Scientists have previously established the existence of water on Mars in the form of
That seemed to support the notion that underground liquid water may reside close enough to the surface in some places that it can seep out periodically.
Although the images did not directly show water, they showed bright deposits running several hundred meters, seemingly left by material carried downhill inside the crater by running water, occasionally snaking around obstacles and leaving finger-shaped marks diverting from the main flow.
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<QUOTE>The research team looked at two photographs of the same crater, one taken in August 1999, and the other in September 2005, which showed a gully that had not previously been there. Scientists have previously established the existence of water on Mars in the form of
That seemed to support the notion that underground liquid water may reside close enough to the surface in some places that it can seep out periodically.
Although the images did not directly show water, they showed bright deposits running several hundred meters, seemingly left by material carried downhill inside the crater by running water, occasionally snaking around obstacles and leaving finger-shaped marks diverting from the main flow.
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