<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/43bbc4de-e080-490a-a30a-2de1b7fa9750/2667549A-EFBB-45C7-AD0D-62DDEEBEFA99/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html"><H2 class="article">Mystery Solved: Mars Had Large Oceans</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.livescience.com/img/672DF1FD-DAA5-4D6D-9663-E652DEF2ED4E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html"><DIV id="enlargeImageModule_text" class="text"><A class="relatedphoto" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">A view of Mars as it might have appeared more than 2 billion years ago, with an ocean filling the lowland basin that now occupies the north polar region. Credit: Taylor Perron/UC Berkeley</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html">Since 1991, planetary scientists have floated the idea that Mars once harbored vast oceans that covered roughly one-third of the planet.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html"><SPAN>"This really confirms that there was an ocean on Mars," said Mark Richards, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley and co-author of the study, which is detailed in the June 14 issue of the journal <I>Nature</I>.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html"><SPAN>The once-flat shorelines were disfigured by a massive toppling over of the planet, scientists announced today. The warping of the Martian rock has hidden clear evidence of <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070613_mars_ocean_02.jpg&cap=A+view+of+Mars+as+it+might+have+appeared+more+than+2+billion+years+ago%2C+with+an+ocean+filling+the+lowland+basin+that+now+occupies+the+north+polar+region.+Credit:+Taylor+Perron%2FUC+Berkeley">the oceans</A>, which in any case have been gone for at least 2 billion years.</SPAN></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/2667549A-EFBB-45C7-AD0D-62DDEEBEFA99/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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