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Hellish Vision of Mars Unveiled

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fire-in-the-sky dept.

mvladivostok writes "Yahoo has an interesting little article in which it is suggested that Mars may not have once been a warm, wet and hospitable planet that somehow lost its atmosphere; instead, it is suggested that the dead planet was occasionally bombarded by melting meteorites that carved out its distinctive craters and valleys. An interesting read."

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  1. like earth? by mr100percent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "instead, it is suggested that the dead planet was occasionally bombarded by melting meteorites that carved out its distinctive craters and valleys"

    Wait a minute, isn't that the same as earth and the rest of the planets? I mean, mercury doesn't get this kind of attention.

  2. Re:speculating by splateagle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "CONCLUSIVE" proof of anything is impossible. One day I expect we'll have gathered enough information to be able to settle comfortably on one martian theory over the others, but the whole point about science is that you don't get to *know* the answers, you just have to keep asking the questions.

    In that light this is an interesting article: personally I still think the atmospheric therories carry more wieght, but this is an interesting new way of asking the Mars question all the same.

    Real advances are often the product of what someone in an earlier post refered to as "National Enquirer Science", which might more neutrally be called "thinking outside the box"