<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/1093284d-904b-4d77-bf0c-557572686f50/3F068887-51A5-4270-9414-EB48B7F41B62/" 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://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars" href="http://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars" style="font-size: 11px;">gizmodo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars"><H1><A href="http://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars" linkindex="36">A Beach On Mars</A></H1></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://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gizmodo.com/img/B2810F2C-6B6A-4330-B955-49F59DDD069E" 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://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars"><P>The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE—High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment—camera has captured one of the most beautiful photographs of Mars to date: An oblique view—at 22 degrees east of straight down—of the Victoria Crater, in the Meridiani Planum region.</p> <P><I>Click on the image to enlarge to see all the incredible detail. Warning, it's huge and takes time to load.</I></p> <P>According to NASA, this unique angle will give scientist a great opportunity to study the geological layers in this area. It looks like a dried lake to me—of course is not—but that's just my ignorant untrained eye making things up. [<A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/mro20091012a.html" linkindex="41">NASA</A>]</P></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://gizmodo.com/5337134/a-beach-on-mars"><DIV class="lead"> <H2> <A title="Click here to read Ion Engines Could Get Us to Mars in 39 Days" class="super-permalink" href="http://gizmodo.com/5323958/ion-engines-could-get-us-to-mars-in-39-days" linkindex="50">Ion Engines Could Get Us to Mars in 39 Days</A> </H2> With current rocket technology, it would take six months for us to travel to Mars. But with nuclear-powered <A href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/ion-engine/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged ION ENGINE" class="autolink" linkindex="51">ion engine</A> technology? Well, that'd take more like six weeks. <A title="Click here to read more about Ion Engines Could Get Us to Mars in 39 Days" href="http://gizmodo.com/5323958/ion-engines-could-get-us-to-mars-in-39-days" linkindex="52">More »</A> </DIV></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/3F068887-51A5-4270-9414-EB48B7F41B62/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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