NASA News Release: Evidence for Recent Climate Change on Mars [Global Warming on Mars]

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ^ | December 6, 2001 | Mailn Space Science Systems

[Moseley]

Mars Global Surveyor MOC Observes Changes in the South Polar Cap: Evidence for Recent Climate Change on Mars

[snip] New MGS Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images have provided a startling observation: The residual martian south polar cap is changing. The fact that it is changing suggests that Mars may have major, global climate changes that are occurring on the same time scales as Earth's most recent climate shifts, including the last Ice Age.

MOC images of the south polar cap taken in 1999 were compared with images of the same locations taken in 2001, and it was discovered that pits had enlarged, mesas had shrunk, and small buttes had vanished. [SNIP for space]

The portion of the martian south polar cap that persists through summer is called the residual polar cap. The two sets of four pictures shown here are from four places on the residual south polar cap. The pictures from 1999 were taken in October of that year, the corresponding pictures from 2001 were acquired in August, approximately 1 Mars year after the 1999 images were obtained. In each case, the pictures are illuminated by sunlight from the upper left, and each shows an area about 250 meters (273 yards) across. The polar cap is layered, and the layers have eroded to form pits, troughs, mesas, and buttes. The pits form as sunlight warms frozen carbon dioxide during southern spring and summer, and the ice sublimes away. There is so much carbon dioxide that it does not all go away in one summer---in fact, it may take hundreds to thousands of years to disappear.

These new observations indicate that the south polar residual cap is not permanent. It is disappearing, a little bit more each southern spring and summer season. [SNIP ]

[Moseley]

NASA confirms that MARS is experiencing global warming.

The only cause that can affect the entire solar system IS THE SUN.

[Red Badger]

BUSH's Fault!.....Am I #1 again?........

[KellyAdmirer]

Well, it must be because of those little rovers we have roaming around up there. Here it's the SUV's, there it's the rovers, in any case, it's ALL OUR FAULT.

[darkwing104]

Damn those Martian SUVs!..

[beebuster2000]

Rove you magnificent bastard.

Mars too.

[groanup]

The sun is not the cause. Here is an SUV landing on Mars:

[brownsfan]

"NASA confirms that MARS is experiencing global warming. "

NASA has been saying that all indications were that Mars was warming too. The MSM has ignored it, and will continue to ignore it. We will still end up with laws based on this crap.

[edcoil]

Mars rovers SUV's

http://www.landroverusa.com/us/en/Vehicles/Range_Rover/Overview.htm?sReferrer=I_05paidsearch_google_LandRoverUsa_20050915

[DustyMoment]

DAMN those SUV drivin' Martians!!! I hope their planet DRIES UP and they all die!!!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Those damned SUV's really emit emmisions further than any of us thought!/sacrasm on.
Hey, now I am no rocket scientist. But this seems huge, if mars is undergoing planetary change at the same time we are on earth, then the Sun can be the one and only culprit and all this hype about being human caused is as bogus as the three dollar bill in my pocket!

[sono]

Al Gore - First Man on Mars!

[Amanda75]

WOW WOW, WHAT WILL THIS DO TO aLgore, TOO FUNNY, SEEMS THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS ALSO BEING SEEN ON OTHER PLANETS, I SAY WELCOME TO THE HOT, HOT SUN, IT GOING TO BURN THE WHOLE PLACE UP IN ABOUT 100 MILLION YEAR, THIS IS ALL TOO FUNNY

[Young Werther]

Puhlese...

Main Entry: 2af·fect

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transitive verb

1 archaic : to aim at

Main Entry: 1ef·fect

Pronunciation: i-'fekt, e-, E-, &-

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Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin effectus, from efficere to bring about, from ex- + facere to make, do -- more at DO

1 a : PURPORT, INTENT b : basic meaning : ESSENCE

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Sunshine EFFECTS the planets atmospheric temperatures.

[traditional1]

[Deaf Smith]

Mars could stave the Global Warming by buying carbon credits from Canada.

[Amalie]

NO, don't you get it? Its OUR SUVs that are now melting Mars...forget saving the planet...SAVE THE UNIVERSE! (Chicken Little sceaming in tune with AlGore)

[doc30]

Also posted on FR - conclusive evidence that the sun has been increasing in intensity for over 1000 years!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772363/posts

But climatologists still take greenhouse emission as the primary mechanism for global warming.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Didn't realize we were spewing out that much Damn we must be a powerful race to destroy God's creation like this /sarcasm

[NRA1995]

Martian SUV

[cookcounty]

It would be helpful if it could be quantified. Still, visuallly obvious changes over a 2 year period would be significant. Then again, maybe they just had a bad winter followed by a warm summer.

[lesser_satan]

Has Manbearpig been spotted on Mars yet?

[redgolum]

I think we need to ban Martian SUV's now before it is to late. /sarcasm.

Of course, since this is heretical to the current crop of global warming priests, NASA should be cut off from all funding, and the ones who recorded this data burnt at the stake. Because as you all know from public school, Bush is the real cause of global warming./double sarcasm

[The KG9 Kid]

FReeper friends, this is the reason we support NASA with tax dollars: The following NASA graphics are an illustration of our 'galactic neighborhood' and what's called the 'local bubble', which is an interstellar cloud ("LIC") that our Sun has been passing through for several thousand years. Our Solar System is just starting to emerge from the LIC and is passing into less cluttered space as the dusty interstellar cloud that may have caused the last great Ice Age on our planet slowly releases us from it's shroud of Hydrogen gas.

Here's closer detail of the above 'local neighborhood' map:

What's this all mean? Well, astronomers have been studying our Solar System's history of travel through the Milky Way galaxy in order to hopefully reveal clues about our planet's history of climate change.

There are ancient and far greater forces at work in our galaxy than just 59-year old Al Gore.

[Frohickey]

I thought Mars didn't have SUVs. Must be Martian-caused global warming. Those damned Martians. If only they were a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol.

[Getsmart64]

Marking

[Moseley]

Do you have a primary source on the interstellar could "local bubble" that you say the sun has been passing through? If I understand you are arguing that increased dust from the external cloud would ENTER the solar system as we flew through it, and interfere with sunlight?

Loved the graphics, although I couldn't find Vulcan on those starcharts. :)

[The KG9 Kid]

You basically describe it correctly, as I understand it to be. There's been discussion about it for some time in astronomy, and you can probably Google quite a bit about the Local Bubble and the debate on climate change. I'm just an enthusiast, not an astronomer.

[KuBand12]

Obviously the CO2 problem on earth is worse than we thought. Our CO2 is now spreading through the solar system. The Jovian ice caps(?) are next.

George W. must have practised all this on Venus without anybody noticing.

[Beowulf]

[The KG9 Kid]

Bumping this thread in relation to Cosmic Rays Blamed For Global Warming.

[Beowulf]

Thanks for the great ping, KG9 ... more evidence in support of the most important variable of temperature anomaly.

Is it anthropogenic greenhouse gas or Mr. Sun? ?

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