News tagged with outflow channels
Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.
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Researchers find new form of Mars lava flow
High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The ...
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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A cluster within a cluster
(Phys.org) -- The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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The legacy of the megaflood
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the Channeled ...
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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'Honeycombs' and hexacopters help tell story of Mars
In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as relics ...
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously ...
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Scientists aboard Iberian coast ocean drilling expedition report early findings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations ...
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Researchers discover novel chemical route to form organic molecules
An international team of scientists led by University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Professor Ralf I. Kaiser, Alexander M. Mebel of Florida International University, and Alexander Tielens of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images taken by ESA’s Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly ...
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Oct 07, 2011 |
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Researcher finds largest martian channels most likely formed by volcanic activity (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the Mars Viking missions of the ’70s, humans have compared the topography of the Red Planet’s surface to their home and imagined a world that once contained flowing rivers that ...
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Aug 11, 2011 |
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Martian water vs. the volcanoes
For decades NASA has been "following the water" on Mars with hopes of finding signs of alien life there; or at least signs that future colonists won't die of thirst. Now a Texas geologist has dared to revive ...
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Jul 27, 2011 |
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