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Caves on Mars?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the little-green-cavemen dept.

RockDoctor writes "The BBC is reporting that the photo-surveying of Mars has revealed seven suspected cave entrances in the Arsia Mons volcanic area. This has been hinted at before — long sinuous channels in the same region have been interpreted as collapsed 'lava tube' caves — but the scale of the suggested entrances (sheer drops of 80 to 130m from the surrounding surface) makes my troglodytic hands twitch for my abseiling gear."

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  1. Re:news? by rmadmin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To some of us, it is news. To be completely honest, it had never occurred to me that there would be caves on Mars.

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  2. News for Nerds. Prussiks matter. by lightversusdark · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who here knew rock-climbers were nerds?

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  3. Alien base by ms1234 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the sectoids have to live somewhere don't they?