'Cave entrances' spotted on Mars

BBC News ^

[BlackJack]

Scientists studying pictures from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the surface of Mars.

The candidate caves are on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volcano and are of sufficient depth their floors mostly cannot be seen through the opening.

Details were presented here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.

Temperature data from Mars Odyssey's Themis instrument support the idea.

The authors say that the possible discovery of caves on the Red Planet is significant.

The caves may be the only natural structures capable of protecting primitive life forms from micrometeoroids, UV radiation, solar flares and high energy particles that bombard the planet's surface.

The spacecraft spotted what seemed to be vertical "skylight" entrances to caves below the surface.

[mewzilla]

[Momaw Nadon]

Looking more and more like there could be some form of life on Mars!

[Momaw Nadon]

OOPS, I didn't see your post before I posted.

GMTA :)

[Eepsy]

The only way life on other planets could shake my faith is if it were intelligent life and had no knowledge of God. "Shake it", mind you, not destroy it. After all, Christianity has been preached in each new continent- why stop there? :)

Not to mention the ideas of C. S. Lewis. Now that would be a fine kettle of fish...

[Eepsy]

Quatermass! That movie scared the dickens out of me when I was seven. It still holds up well, too.

[NickatNite2003]

'5 million years to Earth'?

>:-}

[Chode]

no, NO... NOT THEM!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo...

[Smokin' Joe]

Lava tubes?

[Smokin' Joe]

I knew he didn't look like he was from around these parts

Yeah. And he didn't order the mammoth steak special...

[Hot Tabasco]

like a good place to start, the beginning.

Thats usually the best place. If you started at the end, there'd be nothing to tell.......

[JCEccles]

One theory is supported by science, the other by faith.

Both are faith claims.

The claim of evolutionists that life organized itself spontaneously, mindlessly, purposelessly, and without direction from inert matter in the twinkling of cosmic time, is by far the more irrational of the two faith claims.

[gathersnomoss]

Very good.

[Ditter]

Some of us do not think that creation and evolution are mutually exclusive. Some of us believe that the evolutionary process was started by God. Evolution cannot be denied, the record is there, how could it all have begun without a Supreme Being starting it all. The seven days in which the world was formed were not our 24 hour days but God's days. The 2 theories mesh beautifully for me.

[mewzilla]

Yup! They don't make'em like that anymore :(

[mewzilla]

The long, strange history of Mars and the movies

[Joe Brower]

"Qautermass and the pit". Yeah, that movie creeped me out when I first saw it as a kid, although it was then titled for the American market as "Five Millions Years to Earth".

Got it on DVD now. It still creeps me out!

[Raycpa]

I do know that if we do find life outside of this planet, it will cause a massive upheaval in the world.

It would definitely put a strain on the budget for missionary work.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Martian Girls Gone Wild featuring Thuvia?

[Hoosier-Daddy]

IMHO the universe is designed to bring forth life, which may then develop and be aware of the universe's existence. The chances of a universe randomly working like this one are impossibly small. But if the universe is designed to bring forth life, I find that just as spiritual as the Creator bring life forth on our planet in six days, perhaps even moreso.

[Jeffrey_D.]

They are "in fact" garages used to hide their SUV's from AlBore.