Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Mars pictures reveal frozen sea

Options
  • 22-02-2005 5:53am
    #1
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭


    BBC

    A huge, frozen sea lies just below the surface of Mars, a team of European scientists has announced. Their assessment is based on pictures of the planet's near-equatorial Elysium region that show plated and rutted features across an area 800 by 900km.

    The team think a catastrophic event flooded the landscape five million years ago and then froze out.

    They tell a forthcoming edition of Nature magazine that sediments covered the ice, locking it in place.

    Large reserves of water-ice are known to be held at the poles on Mars but if this discovery is confirmed by follow-up observations, it would be a first for a region at such a low latitude.


    Read the full article on bbc
    Even more of a chance life will bw found on Mars (and elsewhere)


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Gone West
    Registered Users Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    This is further confirmation that life can exsist outside our planet, and It is becoming increasingly likely that outside (alien)life will be found within our lifetimes.

    ....

    YaY!


  • Options
    #3
    Jimboo_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭Jimboo_Jones


    FuzzyLogic wrote:
    This is further confirmation that life can exsist outside our planet, and It is becoming increasingly likely that outside (alien)life will be found within our lifetimes.

    ....

    YaY!

    you will be interested in this report then,

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4295475.stm


Advertisement