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Old 23-April-2008, 11:54 PM
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Default Glaciers Reveal Martian Climate Has Been Recently Active

Brown University press release: Glaciers Reveal Martian Climate Has Been Recently Active

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The prevailing thinking is that Mars is a planet whose active climate has been confined to the distant past. About 3.5 billion years ago, the Red Planet had extensive flowing water and then fell quiet - deadly quiet. It didn't seem the climate had changed much since.

Now, in a research article that graces the May cover of Geology, scientists at Brown University think Mars' climate has been much more dynamic than previously believed. After examining stunning high-resolution images taken last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the researchers have documented for the first time that ice packs at least 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) thick and perhaps 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) thick existed along Mars' mid-latitude belt as recently as 100 million years ago. In addition, the team believes other images tell them that glaciers flowed in localized areas in the last 10 to 100 million years - akin to the day before yesterday in Mars' geological timeline.

This evidence of recent activity means the Martian climate may change again and could bolster speculation about whether the Red Planet can, or did, support life.
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i always tought the ideas of "these planets are dead" is ridiculos - we just must watch longer
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Perhaps when T.Rex looked up at night, he didn't see a red Mars but a bright and shinney white Mars.
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Well, here's a thought - when we perfect teleportation technology we could simply connect Earth and Mars with gates between, oh, about 200 feet underwater on Earth and in one of Mars' lower basins.

Might even be enough to solve the problem of rising oceans due to global warming!
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