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Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars

astroengine writes "The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera carried by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a strange geological feature that, for now, defies an obvious explanation. Found at the southern edge of Acidalia Planitia, small pits with raised edges appear to hug a long ridge. So far, mission scientists have ruled out impact craters and wind as formation processes, but have pegged the most likely cause to be glacial in nature."

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  1. I'm not saying it's aliens by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not saying it's aliens, but that "ridge" was clearly a space craft docking terminal used by ancient aliens and their flying saucers.

    1. Re:I'm not saying it's aliens by Nadaka · · Score: 3, Funny

      James Cameron is the dude most likely to build a film studio on mars so he could produce an authentic looking set.

  2. Bah! by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those are acne scars from when Mars was much younger, you insensitive clods!

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  3. Re:we don't know by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    The earth is 4,500,000,027 years old.

    They told my it was 4.5 billion years old when I took high school geology back in 1986.

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  4. Re:we don't know by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yea, I mean, seriously 4.4 billion years old? It could just as easily be 4.5 or 4.3 billion years old."

    Precise Dating is everything.

    Some tourists in the Chicago Museum of Natural History are marveling at the dinosaur bones. One of them asks the guard, "Can you tell me how old the dinosaur bones are?"

    The guard replies, "They are 70 million, four years, and six months old."

    "That's an awfully exact number," says the tourist. "How do you know their age so precisely?"

    The guard answers, "Well, the dinosaur bones were 70 million years old when I started working here, and that was four and a half years ago."

  5. Looks like a job for religion by Sloppy · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's a strange thing! I don't understand it. You don't understand it. Top Men don't fully understand it, or are divided on some fine point.

    ERGO, [non sequiter crackpot hypothesis unsuggested by the data]! See? Finally, I have been proven right.

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