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New Mars Discoveries

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-land-beneath-the-land dept.

sighted writes "The fleet of five active spacecraft examining Mars (in addition to the recently-missing Mars Global Surveyor) have been working overtime. On the heels of last week's finding of possible flows of liquid water, the ESA has announced that an entire hidden landscape exists just beneath the surface of the Red Planet, and NASA has released some really amazing images of layered topography that will yield many clues to the history of this strange world."

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  1. Most of this isn't new... by CorSci81 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The idea that the northern hemisphere craters were simply buried is actually a fairly old idea, even though the article makes this sound like a major breakthrough. We've had some radar images suggesting this for some time, I guess it's just now they're starting to get some press. The layered deposits are also well documented, but I do have to admit those are the prettiest pictures I've ever seen of them.

  2. Re:I didn't know satellites had a schedual by sighted · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tossed off that phrase maybe a little too casually as a figure of speech, but certainly the people on the project have been working overtime. Some background here.

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  3. Re:Awesome! by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh, no.

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