Monday, September 19, 2011

Taking the scary out of our neighbor - Mars


At this crater location, Mars looks kind of like some dry areas of Earth.

From SF Gate, 9/2/11.  The two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the plant in January 2004 on a mission planned to last only three months. Spirit's wheels got stuck on a sand patch more than two years ago and has fallen silent, but Opportunity's six wheels have carried it more than 20 miles from its original landing site. It has found evidence that many rocks contain minerals like iron oxide - ordinary rust to everyone on Earth - which must surely mean Mars once had plentiful water and may still.  Read more...

Posted by Kathy Meeh

3 comments:

mike bell said...

Managed retreat?

Carl Sagan from another dimension said...

Is that Mori Point?
Great article. Thanks for posting.

Kathy Meeh said...

Carl (712), maybe they got the Mars picture confused with the city council appointed Climate Action Task Force projected plan for Sharp Park. No sea wall, no houses, no golf course, no highway. Total erosion, flooding and swept out-to-sea-- as Mike said "managed retreat".