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tocqueville

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Wed Nov-30-05 08:17 PM
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some pictures from ESA

A HRSC 3D perspective view of Candor Chasma (in false colours) characterised by the infrared images of OMEGA. It shows bright and brown deposits (red markers) that are rich in the mineral kieserite, a hydrated magnesium sulphate.

In this HRSC 3D perspective view of the Marwth Vallis area (shades of grey), OMEGA has mapped the water-rich minerals (blue). No hydrated minerals or sediments have been detected, either in the channel or in its opening. However, the outflow was so violent as to erode and expose ancient hydrated clay-rich minerals, tracing an early era when water was present.

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Wilms

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Wed Nov-30-05 08:40 PM
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1. Mars? Link? Thanks. n/t

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tocqueville

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Wed Nov-30-05 08:44 PM
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2. here, sorry for the "missing link"

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_Mars_Express_and_Huygens/

you can check some Titan stuff too

browse the site, specially the Mars' surface pictures. If you have 3D glasses, you'll see some amazing stuff

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newswolf56

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Wed Nov-30-05 09:06 PM
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3. Thank you for posting this:

precisely the sort of knowledge the fundamentalists -- with their "Bible-based" hostility to science -- would suppress forever.

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Wilms

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Wed Nov-30-05 09:25 PM
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4. It's a pity that the landing probe failed.

But Mars Express, nevertheless, is "doing a heckuva job".

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