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Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing On Mars

Posted by Soulskill on from the more-evidence-for-hydrogen-hydroxide dept.

Riding with Robots writes "Mars researchers report that a robotic spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that once directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone. 'This study provides a picture of not just surface water erosion, but true groundwater effects widely distributed over the planet,' said one of the mission scientists for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been regularly returning terabytes of high-resolution images and other kinds of data from Mars."

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  1. Plumbing? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who cares about alien plumbing?
    I want their electronics!

    1. Re:Plumbing? by Umuri · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ignorant fool!
      Everyone knows that the key to intergalactic understanding is knowledge of the location and inner workings of alien plumbing!

      Why do you think everytime another intergalactic race stops by here, that they anal prob our hillbillies?

      Plumbing inspection, i'm telling you!

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  2. Re:Data rate of 6Mb/s by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could have gone to the homepage http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/
    There it states 67.5 Terrabits received. (Terrabits, not terrabytes)

    They could have gotten it down to 99 kb, but the damn webmaster insisted on a Flash animation.

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