Mars! Some good pictures...

[Damocles]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Mars--look-surprisingly-like-parts-Earth.html

Incredible pictures of Mars - and they look surprisingly like some parts of Earth

By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 11:47 AM on 16th July 2008


Ever since Victorian astronomers pointed their telescopes towards Mars and wrongly believed they had discovered canals, mankind has been obsessed by the red planet.

Now these astonishing new images - captured by a European spacecraft in orbit around Mars - are helping to fuel that fascination.

They show in astonishing detail a network of giant valleys, vast plains and towering waterfalls carved into the surface of our neighbouring planet, millions of miles away.

More at link...

 

[evince]

Very cool.

 

[Thorn]

Amazing. I read a similar story today, in which the headline said that new evidence suggests that Mars was once covered in water.

I wonder what happened? And what are the implications for Earth?

 

[Minister of Truth]

Amazing. I read a similar story today, in which the headline said that new evidence suggests that Mars was once covered in water.

I wonder what happened? And what are the implications for Earth?

Well, there used to be a planet between Mars and Jupiter. A great hypothesis I heard once is that its core couldn't withstand the competing gravitational pulls of the Sun and Jupiter, so it eventually collapsed. Perhaps when this happened, it caused a change in the Martian climate and atmosphere...

 

[uscitizen]

Amazing. I read a similar story today, in which the headline said that new evidence suggests that Mars was once covered in water.

I wonder what happened? And what are the implications for Earth?

It might be where man came from.
you just never know.

 

[Damocles]

It might be where man came from.
you just never know.

It may give a whole new meaning to Noah's Ark....

 

[Cancel5]

I have been watching "The Universe" on the History channel HD! We just got HD for the channel and it is unbelievable!

 

[Damocles]

I have been watching "The Universe" on the History channel HD! We just got HD for the channel and it is unbelievable!

Wow, we've had it for a while. I feel sorry you missed it for all this time.

 

[uscitizen]

It may give a whole new meaning to Noah's Ark....

Yep, maybe the origional name for mars was heaven. And God was the ruler.

You just never know.

 

[Thorn]

I have been watching "The Universe" on the History channel HD! We just got HD for the channel and it is unbelievable!

It's awesome, isn't it! Have you looked at "Sunrise Earth" in HD yet? I love that.

 

[uscitizen]

Yep so brilliant and clear.

I watch those shows about like my young neice watches the little mermaid.
Enthralled is the word I guess.

 

[Minister of Truth]

Yep so brilliant and clear.

I watch those shows about like my young neice watches the little mermaid.
Enthralled is the word I guess.

Wish I could be, part of this world