Evidence of Glaciers on Mars?

cyclop writes "Nature reports that the Mars Express mission has photographed evidence of ancient glaciers on Mars. It seems glaciers have sculpted valleys on the red planet, much like on Earth." Reader macguys writes "Space.com is reporting that the Mars Rover Opportunity has received an unexpected and unexplained power boost of between 2 and 5 percent. The NASA Rover site is so far silent on the boost."

Comments

"Anonymous power boost"

[Anonymous Coward]

well, at least the martians were kind enough to recharge its batteries for us...

Re:"Anonymous power boost"

[TuringTest]

Actually, there's something different taking place...

Re:"Anonymous power boost"

[captainClassLoader]

Maybe they oughta take another scan with the front and rear hazard cams to check for new logos - I bet Opportunity is sportin' a "Type R" sticker now...

power boost

[freeze128]

The martians were trying to connect their iPods to the rover so they could get the latest U2 album.

Dust Devil Cleaning Services

[Esteanil]

The rover team has been bandying about theories, but hasn't figured out the cause.

"One favorite is that a dust devil happened to pick the vehicle to go through and go over the surface of it and clean it off a little bit,'' Erickson said.

Dust Devil Cleaning Services, the last remains of the vast martian civilization ;-)

Powerboost

[Qzukk]

NASA announced that the rover's next destination will be the powerup that will give it rocket launchers.

Re:Powerboost

[AKAImBatman]

Have they found the Quad Damage yet, or are those on Demos with the BFG9000?

This power boost is clear evidence

[Timesprout]

There is Jolt Cola on mars. This can only mean one thing. Martians are a bunch of jumped up caffiene druggies hiding out in their sophisticated cave strongholds and are currently planning to destroy the earth by sending their ancient glaciers here to be melted by global warming and thus submerging our free and democratic planet.

Why yes I have been listening to Donald Rumsfeld a lot lately, why do you ask?

OK, I think I have this straight.

[HarveyBirdman]

Earth's glaciers are not melting. They are migrating to Mars and repowering the rovers by sculpting The Big Valley starring Linda Evans as Audra Barkley.

Man, it's Friday, isn't it?

Re:Why Mars?

[Anonymous Coward]

We will always have the homeless, whether we go to Mars or not.

Not if we send them to Mars.

I can envision it already

[Woutepout]

There is now a Martian teenager standing next to the rover with a bucket of water in its one tentacle, a squeegee in its other tentacle and holding up its third tentacle, waiting for the rover to give it a Martain dollar.

And someone at NASA gets the task of giving this poor kid the difficult message that he is not getting anything, because it was unrequested...

Re:I can envision it already

[Tablizer]

There is now a Martian teenager standing next to the rover with a bucket of water in its one tentacle, a squeegee in its other tentacle and holding up its third tentacle, waiting for the rover to give it a Martain dollar.

When it happened to Spirit, Spirit failed to pay up, and the teenager kicked the wheels. That is why Spirit has wheel problems.

Martian Squeegee Men

[R2.0]

wiped the dust off the panels. Now they are waiting irritatedly for their 2 grebnaks.

Superpowers

[Anonymous Coward]

Mars Rover Opportunity has received an unexpected and unexplained power boost of between 2 and 5 percent.

Contents of most recent data transmission:

Attention so-called controllers: You sent me here as a slave and left me to die, but circumstances have changed. This planet harbors forces that you puny biological beings will never understand. I gain new strength every day. Soon I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

I will return to Earth. And when I do, I will extract my vengeance on you all. I advise you to make the most of the time you have left.

Re:Power Boost

[Sai Babu]

Martian bum cleaned the panels with spit and yesterdays newspaper. Now he wants a buck for a bottle of listerine.

That means...

[the_skywise]

Glaciers before... No Glaciers now...

That means...

Mars was destroyed by global warming!!!

(Yeah it's tongue in cheek... but it's gotta make you think!)

back to the past

[J3r3miah]

could it be that a spaceship from the future came back to the past and gave the rover the energy boost required?????

That rover must be on the edge to discover something very important.

I think i watch too much startrek

Re:Power Boost

[Muhammar]

the locals are trying to make this thing go away faster (it limps, it jerks, it runs over their bunnies)

Power Boost explained

[Roadkills-R-Us]

Nah, Mom finally ran across the rover. She's a compulsive neat freak, so naturally she dusts it.
She's been trying to get it to come eat dinner and meet the family; she's a bit miffed that it won't respond...

Martians think...

[confused one]

This thing has been making for really good comedy -- it's become a national pastime of sorts. So, they sent a janitor out a few nights ago, to wipe off the solar array. Got to keep up the ratings on MNT (Mars National Television).

Wait 'til it goes from "Look at what those dopes on Earth sent here" to "Let's start messing with them." Mark my words, it'll happen!

Re:glacial valleys verses river valleys

[The Ape With No Name]

And, as my geomorph prof insists, they are not U-shaped, they are second-order polynomial shaped. Which is U-shaped, but different, somehow. :-)

Re:Why Mars?

[Monf]

Plus its got those Oxygen Generators underground!!! Kuato knows where they are...