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Moon is only about 1/81 the mass of earth (it's surface gravitational force is one sixth of Earth's) and

Mars has (rather stable) seasons (see e.g. Season on Mars )

W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

Oh, great! Now we now that there is intelligent life on both Mars and the Sun! Soon they will probably even find intelligent life on earth!

There are no MCSEs on Mars to reboot computers that crash.
Maybe this guy is!

What's really interesting is to compare the neutron maps with photo maps of the Martian ice cap on the south pole here. You've got to be careful about the scale and orientation of these two images, since they are totally different (90 degrees is at three-o-clock on the neutron map, nine-o-clock on the photo map) but what's really facinating is that the visible ice pack is not circular-symmetrical around the pole and the neutron data IS.

The way I see it, some parts of Mars are a *lot* hotter *now* than where I live gets during summer (they're consistenly up at ~20 ***centigrade***!) and *I've* got liquid water :)

Seriously, it's not like it's too cold for water all over the planet, and from looking at the hubble pics I'm pretty convinced those clouds have got liquid in them. More stuff for your perusal though...

Big image, sorry... Look at the bottom though - this is by *far* the most convincing pic of a lake I've found yet.

More lakes, this time cropped appropriately :) (original nasa image is here

Oh look, a waterfall... I suppose that's not really liquid either :) (taken from same nasa image as above)

I had a link to the tech specs for the ships they were putting up too and I'm pissed that I've lost it because it had some pretty incriminating stuff on it (the colour cameras they've got up there just now don't 'do' blue IIRC) - I'm convinced there's liquid water up there right now and they're holding back on telling us...

And I can't believe those damn martians get hotter weather than me :/

For some reason, this picture really turns me on!

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"

Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.

Here are some "cool" animations where you can see the ice caps melting. Also, here's a JPL press release which is a little more level headed than the news coverage.

I can't believe I did that..

This is flat-out wrong. NASA specifically made a big deal about publicizing the images taken of the "face" by Mars Global Surveyor. You can see one of the many NASA pages that compares the 1976 Viking image with the MGS image here. MGS images of the other supposed "artifacts" are linked from that page.

Now, are you sure you aren't into conspiracy theories? :)

We believe that Mars might hold life because Mars is relatively similar to Earth. Correct me if I am guessing wrong, but silicon based life forms would live on a planet with higher temperatures.

The second reason is the panspermia theory. Small molecules and pre-bacteria, not very much lifelike, are enough to push the chemistry between planets onto a certain path of evolution.

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Mars picture and Picture zoomed out..

We believe that Mars might hold life because Mars is relatively similar to Earth. Correct me if I am guessing wrong, but silicon based life forms would live on a planet with higher temperatures.

The second reason is the panspermia theory. Small molecules and pre-bacteria, not very much lifelike, are enough to push the chemistry between planets onto a certain path of evolution.

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Mars picture and Picture zoomed out..

And before you mark this as a g**t.cx link, look at the big picture : The big image.

*p*

And before you mark this as a g**t.cx link, look at the big picture : The big image.

*p*

Shon

Came across this while randomly looking at the MSSS gallery -- view the "full size image".

Notice some parts look like the "tubes" that people show from mars photos, but when you see them merging into large dune areas they appear to be just sand dunes?

Here's an example of the tubes -- look at the high res version, lower left corner.

One thing to note when we look at stuff that's come back from mars is that the most of the planet has not been viewed with the narrow angle camera at all -- for example, go here, select a region, then look at the clickable map -- the little light blue tracks are the places where the narrow angle views are available.

Here's an example of the tubes -- look at the high res version, lower left corner.

One thing to note when we look at stuff that's come back from mars is that the most of the planet has not been viewed with the narrow angle camera at all -- for example, go here, select a region, then look at the clickable map -- the little light blue tracks are the places where the narrow angle views are available.

Is Richard Hoagland's http://www.enterprisemission.com. One page with a few pictures of these Mars structures is http://www.enterprisemission.com/sequel.htm and others are at Glass Tubes, and Cydonia Triangle. Another site with tons of Mars surface feature images is http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/index.html.

If NASA was really looking for life or past life on Mars, they would have better and more pictures of the Cydonia region. The shots taken of the face are often at low resolution and bad angles. The rest of the region needs more photographing. It isn't like the rest of Mars is more interesting.

This official web page shows the left side of the face with an eye in the socket:

This unofficial web page shows a study of the latest picture:

Trying to say that past civilizations in the solar system have to be bunk and need not be studied misses the point of exploration in the first place.

- James - [IMAGE]

Over a decade ago I proposed the National Science Trust that would be a trust fund that paid out only for information delivered, from whatever source and by whatever lawful means. In other words, new information flowing in causes new cash to flow out.

I'm no longer one to advocate political action about anything, but The National Science Trust idea can easily be adapted to private philanthropy as well.

I'm pretty sure Malin Space Science Systems, the ones who put the camera on Mars Global Surveyor, already examine each picture and write a short description of it. I say this, having downloaded hundreds of narrow-angle camera images of the Iapygia region (270W-300W, 30S-0N. quadrangle MC-21) and seeing comments on a lot of their pages. So odds are you're not the first person to examine that spot, and I guarantee you're not if it's in the Iapygia region. ;)

....doesn't really look that much like a skull to me, I could look at clouds for an hour or so and find a cloud that looked more like a skull than this cluster.

There was a similarly unconvincing story a while back relating to what looks like a face on the surface of Mars

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They even have 3-D images... look. It makes me wish i had a pair of those red/blue glasses to see what it looks like (as if i can't guess). Don't get too excited now... you aren't really there... it's just an optical illusion.

Thanks, Michael, for not posting this on the main page. Otherwise, all the pretty pictures would be slashdotted.

context map of what /might/ be the general area.
Camaron de la Isla 'When I sing with pleasure, my

As the Mars Global Surveyor's raw dataset is up on the web the assembled /. hordes should be able to identify something, perhaps. http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/watables/mc18- M04-wa.html is a list of images from the general region.

Enjoy !
Camaron de la Isla 'When I sing with pleasure, my

Of course, none of this water is likely vapor or liquid -- it's all solid water ice.

Of course, none of this water is likely vapor or liquid -- it's all solid water ice.

• Launch costs drop radically (yeah Roton!)
• It becomes profitably in some way.