'Active glacier found' on Mars


	'Active glacier found' on Mars

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12-20-2007 6:10 PM

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					'Active glacier found' on Mars
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>A probable active glacier has been identified for the first time on Mars.</B>
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<FONT size="2">The icy feature has been spotted in images from the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express spacecraft.
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<FONT size="2">Ancient glaciers, many millions of years old, have been seen before on the Red Planet, but this one may only be several thousand years old.
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<FONT size="2">The young glacier appears in the Deuteronilus Mensae region between Mars' rugged southern highlands and the flat northern lowlands.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/17C418AE-FEF3-4902-8FA4-03B92BFBBA0C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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