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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.

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jimdoze1 month ago

It takes one's breath away to contemplate, "Where has it (water) all gone? When? and Why?
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  globalwarmer1 month ago
  
  I think it either froze and/or ended up under ground. Lots of impact craters in the photos though, not a place I want to visit, I like my planets with a breathable atmosphere and over populated.
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    jimdoze1 month ago
    
    It takes earthlike quantities of water to cut gorges like the ones seen in those photos. Again, where has it gone?
    I'd decide to visit the moon... or Mars... in a heartbeat if the opportunity were available.
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      truthiness1 month ago
      
      the atmosphere on mars s thin to the point of almost not being there. as a result, if the ice hypothetically on the poles were to melt it would evaporate into space. don't know what happened to the atmo.. but thats what happened to the water.. if it was there.
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        globalwarmer1 month ago
        
        Your absolutely right, it goes back into the atmosphere in the summer and condenses at the polar caps right from gas to a solid.
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      globalwarmer1 month ago
      
      I hear fall is a good time to visit Mars.
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      Spinward1 month ago
      
      Could you take my ex-wife with you? Pleeeeease?
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        jimdoze1 month ago
        
        Is she 25, well educated and look like Shania Twain?
        I also like science fiction.
        :-)
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  mark-stevens1 month ago
  
  Let's all hope there wasn't Martians running around talking about global warming.
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ranchhand1 month ago

Could this have been akin to a nuclear war results?
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L8again1 month ago

did anyone else see a short green guy with a roman helmet?
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Charlson1 month ago

I remember when I was a teenager and read Egdar Rice Burrough's books about John Cater of Mars. And I still have a fascination for the Red Planet.
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hurr11 month ago

Really sharp photos.
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dandt16121 month ago

WOW!!!
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angelitobcn1 month ago

I love it! :-D
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ConeOfSilence1 month ago

nice
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jimdoze1 month ago

""The big surprise from these new results is how pervasive and long-lasting Mars' water was, and how diverse the wet environments were," said Scott Murchie, CRISM's principal investigator at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland."
http://news.aol.com/article/images-suggest-wate...
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wujian1 month ago

Actually there are many hidden planet in our galaxy as we don't know yet....

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  jimdoze1 month ago
  
  "Actually there are many hidden planet in our galaxy as we don't know yet.... "
  INDEED! Think what having 2 planets with abundant water in one solar system does for the probability of similar conditions in other solar systems in our galaxy for starters... then begin counting other galaxies.
  Carl Sagan is beaming, a billions and billions watt beam, from above!
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newbie04201 month ago

Nice sub.
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