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Wish I could have seen these ancient floods first hand...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by canucks555
Flowing and standing water on Mars left the hypothesis stage quite a while ago. The theory is very well established now.
That catastrophic flooding occurred is something new. And fascinating.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by canucks555
Flowing and standing water on Mars left the hypothesis stage quite a while ago. The theory is very well established now.
That catastrophic flooding occurred is something new. And fascinating.
Originally posted by canucks555
Many scientists think the Chryse channels likely were formed by the catastrophic release of ground water,
Maybe it (the water) blasted out from under the ground? Like a mega-geyser (s) ?
What if a comet/asteroid impact type of scenario unleashed an underground ocean onto the surface..?
possible?
edit on 11-3-2013 by canucks555 because: (no reason given)
[1] We report independent results from two subgroups of the Mars Express Radio Science (MaRS) team who independently analyzed Mars Express (MEX) radio tracking data for the purpose of determining consistently the gravitational attraction of the moon Phobos on the MEX spacecraft, and hence the mass of Phobos. New values for the gravitational parameter (GM = 0.7127 ± 0.0021 × 10−3 km3/s2) and density of Phobos (1876 ± 20 kg/m3) provide meaningful new constraints on the corresponding range of the body's porosity (30% ± 5%), provide a basis for improved interpretation of the internal structure. We conclude that the interior of Phobos likely contains large voids. When applied to various hypotheses bearing on the origin of Phobos, these results are inconsistent with the proposition that Phobos is a captured asteroid.