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Friday, September 21, 2007

Mars Have No Water?

New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes.


The images were taken during the first 100 days of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission and are detailed in a special section of the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science.


While the results don't confirm or deny the existence of liquid water on Mars' surface, they are no less fascinating, say the scientists involved. For instance, one team found no evidence that flowing water caused bright deposits on the planet. Instead, the scientists proposed dry landslides caused the deposits.


"All findings are good findings," said one team leader Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona.

Read more:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070920_mars_tale.html

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