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Geothermal Activity on Mars?

Posted by michael on from the toast-marshmallows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article on the New Scientist site reports that Mars Odyssey has detected warm spots (20-40 degrees warmer irrespective of sunlight, day or night) in the Hellas basin."

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  1. Got this one out of the way early. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, we got the "offbeat science topic" done early. Now we only have to look forward to a day of Microsoft bug announcements/Linux release announcements/Terrible book reviews/"case mods"

  2. YOU FAIL IT FAILURE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  3. Warm spots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a better article on Yahoo that explains these "warm spots" in more detail (with pictures, also).

  4. odd most features have some "could be life" attach by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Troll

    typical science reporting

    "sceintists say that this break though could eventually lead to X"

    often with now logical path from A to X.

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