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What's painting dark streaks on Mars?
New Scientist ^ | 02/14/09

Posted on 02/15/2009 11:17:03 AM PST by KevinDavis

WHAT'S painting Mars? Every spring, dark streaks appear on its polar dunes, which may be caused by liquid water near the surface - a fillip for the hunt for life.

The dark streaks of sand a few metres wide slide downslope at about a metre a day. "They show a branching pattern, so it seems like some liquid material is flowing," says Akos Kereszturi at the Collegium Budapest in Hungary.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; mars; space
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1 posted on 02/15/2009 11:17:03 AM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 02/15/2009 11:17:32 AM PST by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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Grafitti artists?


3 posted on 02/15/2009 11:18:48 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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Members of the Barsoom Taggers street gang.


4 posted on 02/15/2009 11:22:34 AM PST by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
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Spice worms....?


5 posted on 02/15/2009 11:29:12 AM PST by spokeshave (Soft Power...bringing shaved ice to a gunfight)
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The Spice...


6 posted on 02/15/2009 11:30:15 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Bush’sault


7 posted on 02/15/2009 12:12:04 PM PST by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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Martians?


8 posted on 02/15/2009 12:13:27 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: phatus maximus

err, ummm, I meant to say:

Bush’s fault


9 posted on 02/15/2009 12:13:33 PM PST by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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Transplanetary skid-marks?


10 posted on 02/15/2009 12:22:24 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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"It's spring cleaning, silly!
The little woman says
stripes, so stripes it is."

11 posted on 02/15/2009 12:22:37 PM PST by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government)
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Martian, septic tank drain fields?


12 posted on 02/15/2009 12:26:09 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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SUV exhaust?


13 posted on 02/15/2009 12:42:37 PM PST by JusPasenThru (I'm not forgetting 8 years of Democrat Party treason.)
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Its Ivy growing on the dunes. Simple.


14 posted on 02/15/2009 1:18:15 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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Giant dogs with worms.


15 posted on 02/15/2009 2:09:45 PM PST by yazoo
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What’s causing them? The same ale e annes making crop circles. The streaks are the Martian equivalent of crop circles ... different lifeform they’re trying to communicate with.


16 posted on 02/15/2009 2:13:32 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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Guilty.. Next time i am up that way, will clean up sorry...
17 posted on 02/15/2009 5:05:26 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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This thread is worthless without pictures...


18 posted on 02/15/2009 5:08:45 PM PST by js1138
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Thanks KevinDavis.
 
Catastrophism
 
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19 posted on 02/15/2009 6:52:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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This might help clear up the mystery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Z7J2PUexw


20 posted on 02/15/2009 6:58:06 PM PST by Redcitizen (In this world there's two kinds of people: Those with loaded guns and those who dig...)
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