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A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater

Posted by timothy on from the younger-hotter-ocean-that-is dept.

Matt_dk writes "An international team of scientists who analyzed data from the Gamma Ray Spectrometer onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey reports new evidence for the controversial idea that oceans once covered about a third of ancient Mars. 'We compared Gamma Ray Spectrometer data on potassium, thorium and iron above and below a shoreline believed to mark an ancient ocean that covered a third of Mars' surface, and an inner shoreline believed to mark a younger, smaller ocean.'"

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  1. Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are these the same scientists who deny the _possibility_ of a global flood on Earth?

  2. Re:To prove it... by harry666t · · Score: -1, Troll

    Err, I see a small difference between: being interested in a book, waiting and seeing if it's going to be true, and: taking part in an aggressive, greedy, mind-washing cult that is no less hypocritical than the Catholic Church (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Zone_(Scientology) ). Maybe you should get an idea of what Scientology is?

    I'm equally against all religions, including atheism.