Mars Gullies Show Water Once Flowed

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A new analysis of puzzling gullylike features on Mars offers further evidence that water flowed on the Red Planet's surface, perhaps as recently as several hundred thousand years ago. The findings bolster the case that melting snow from a departed Martian ice age carved these gullies, rather than shifting sands or other 'dry' phenomena."

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[Geoffrey.landis]

Haven't they reported this a dozen times over the last decade? ...

For some reason, every time there's an incremental advance in understanding the environment of Mars, in the process of turning the results from science into news reports, the actual science gets simplified and simplified until the net result seems to be a headline of "Water found on Mars."

There's a lot more to the real science, of course.