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UCLA Scientist Discovers Plate Tectonics On Mars

Posted by timothy on from the was-just-trying-to-find-the-rest-room dept.

Reader SternisheFan links to a press release at UCLA, and excerpts from it another bit of Mars news: "For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet's surface, also exists on Mars. 'Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth,' said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and the sole author of the new research."

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  1. Re:I think I'll wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    To be honest, this surprised me. So much so that I... expelled flatulence out of my very own asshole!

    Wow! Such a thing! This day has been full of surprises!