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Study Casts Doubt on Water on Mars' Surface

Started by curtrenz, 02/29/2008 02:29PM
Posted 02/29/2008 02:29PM Opening Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It made a big splash when scientists announced in 2006 that images from a NASA spacecraft indicated water apparently had flowed on the surface of Mars in the past decade but new research casts doubt on that finding.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080229/sc_nm/mars_water_dc

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Curt Renz
Posted 02/29/2008 05:39PM #1
Curt, It did seem to me that there was a "desire" to think that water had caused the features and dismiss the "less glamorous" idea that they were caused by wind and sand.

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