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Evidence of Glaciers on Mars?

Posted by michael on from the downhill-skiing-apparently-popular dept.

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."

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  1. "Anonymous power boost" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. power boost by freeze128 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Dust Devil Cleaning Services by Esteanil · · Score: 5, Funny
    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 ;-)
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  4. Powerboost by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. This power boost is clear evidence by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  6. Re:Why Mars? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Not if we send them to Mars.

  7. I can envision it already by Woutepout · · Score: 5, Funny
    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...

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  8. Superpowers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

  9. Re:Power Boost by Sai+Babu · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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