water world
After the software bug delays, I’m finally getting caught on some of the latest news... two news studies just published based on the latest results from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter add to (again) the growing evidence that ancient Mars was once brimming with water - lakes, rivers, groundwater and perhaps even oceans. The data from this mission, combined with that from Phoenix, Opportunity and Spirit continues to indicate Mars was once a very wet world, a true water world...
Posted by Paul Scott Anderson on July 21, 2008 at 9:51 pm
July 21, 2008
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