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Gorgeous Images of Echus Chasma--Water Source Region on Mars

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  • alexkim804, on 07/17/2008, -2/+17i wish there was a way to show scale in NASA photos
    • StarofTroy, on 07/18/2008, -2/+6You mean ESA...
    • simg, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3Some of the images look as if they could have been taken from about 1 metre up and some from about 4km's up...

      from the article, one of the cliffs in 4000m tall, so the images are pretty large scale. Bigger than the Grand Canyon ?
    • Nickdotnet, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2hold your fingers up to the pic about 1 inch apart. The canyons are WAY larger than that.
    • mr.gates, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2There is we just need to put a person in the photos.
      • diggdallas, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Well, that was almost a sentence. Keep trying kid, you'll get one of these days.
  • ColonelTribune, on 07/17/2008, -1/+11Just think - there may have once been waterfalls on Mars
    • sotose, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1And where there's waterfalls.......there's extreme rafting!
  • ClarkBender, on 07/17/2008, -2/+6Those are really cool. I love the idea of a 4 kilometer tall cliff!
  • alapoet, on 07/17/2008, -1/+4Gorgeous. Makes me want to pull back out my tattered copy of Heinlein's "Red Planet."
  • appleseed1234, on 07/18/2008, -0/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraform_mars

    In case you were wonder what it might have looked like / might look like.
    • seraph582, on 07/18/2008, -2/+1Mars cannot be terraformed. It has no magnetosphere. Any necessary gasses released would just dissipate from the solar wind.
      • appleseed1234, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2Unless you actually follow the link and read it of course.
  • arcooke, on 07/18/2008, -3/+2"The Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on Mars"

    "It is still debated whether the valleys originate from precipitation, groundwater springs or liquid or magma flows on the surface."

    Did they just bury themselves as inaccurate? That was all in the same paragraph. They JUST came out with the results from the ice they found.. there's no way they know for sure about any water sources yet.
    • tao52nyc, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0But I look at those images, and I just KNOW they were carved by water...they had to be. Yes, I like the hard science, and I want to know the hard science of it (which may ultimately require a direct human presence), but I've only seen water carve channels like that - not magma. I just hope that some of the water is still there, in underground springs or ice packs.
  • str1fe, on 07/18/2008, -4/+3***** websites that refresh 7 times just to view 7 pictures. Make them a proper slideshow at least, don't do cheap ***** like this to get page views.
  • StarofTroy, on 07/18/2008, -2/+2Why didn't we send our lander there?
  • Chronoped, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Any desktop sizes around?

    ... And how about some new Cydonia pics, eh?
  • kipmartin, on 07/18/2008, -1/+5ok, imagine the rivers are the State of Israel's anti-Palestinian agenda. The temperature represents the Democrat Congress slowing down the flow of the Palestinian movement to acquire a homeland. the lack of oxygen is the Democrat congress...

    or is this better represented as a Windows/Linux/MacOS thing?

    again, nice to see science represented on Digg for a change. Dugg up!
    • Duositex, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1wtf is this bs comment? and dugg up?? It's just nonsense flame bait. My comment is proof.
  • CrushThemTorg, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2I look forward to my new life in the off-world colonies. Yeah, the chance to being in a golden land of opportunity and adventure is gonna rule.
    • JorgeGT, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Where do one applies for his *hot* *female* Nexus?
  • nimajneb18, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2I bet its hella wet there
  • crazyechidna83, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1damn i want to be an astronaut
  • Intervene, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1That 5th picture looks like an arm with scorpion pinchers.
  • peanutsinmypooh, on 07/18/2008, -2/+0all i see is a super up close shot of a yummy cinnabon that has been sitting on the counter for a while... nom nom nom.. mmmmm!!

    Cinnabon bakeries have built a reputation for serving fresh, aromatic cinnamon rolls made with premium Indonesian cinnamon and topped with sweet, rich, cream cheese-based frosting. Each Cinnabon product is served hot out of the oven and baked fresh before our guests' eyes. Cinnabon's commitment to premium ingredients and quality has paid off.

    dugg for making me hungry!
  • shinkou, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2hahaha... gorgeous? You guys are nuts! The photos are all retouched!
  • fugazied, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1Thats not Mars, I can see my house in the background!
  • SweatyGooch, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0I hope it's not inhabited by Fremen, those guys are bunch of assholes.
  • mamboboy, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1I see Blue...it looks glorious!
  • Rapter09, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2Can anyone explain something to me? First, we didn't really know if there was any water at all on Mars until the lander touched down. We had some theories but we needed some physical data. And we got it! ***** yeah Seaking! But now, they're almost making it seem like you could fly there and find out that Aquafina's already got a bottling plant there. Has the data from Pheonix simply allowed them to 'know what to look for' so to speak?

    According to the article all of that data was supplied September 25, 2005; So they either already knew about the water to begin with and didn't bother to tell us, or have extrapolated that data from their current stored set based on what the Pheonix has been sending them. But if the later is true, how come they didn't find it already? I'm assuming scientists know what frozen water looks like and could analyze the already existing data for that a long time ago when they had it in 2005; what's the deal? is this some type of special mars water or something, and if so how come that's not the real discovery? Not just water but "space water!" - I'm definitely not understanding something here.
  • Plastic3D, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1How did Getty images get their name in the credit for the images?
  • OropheR, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Spice worms activity.
  • spooky49, on 07/19/2008, -0/+0who pulled the plug?
  • mmijatov, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1I am ready to believe.
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