Alaska Similar To Mars


	Alaska Similar To Mars

firefoxed

7-18-2008 10:06 PM

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earth new famous discovery alaska is similar to ma

firefoxed says:

Wow, didn't think this would happen. Great discovery.

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did Bucknell University geology professors Craig Kochel and Jeffrey Trop know,
as they were working in Alaska, that they would soon predict one of the most
important planetary observations ever made.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080717/sc_space/howmarsandalaskaarealike"><P>Kochel
and Trop trekked to where the shots were taken overlooking a glacier. Spotting
triangle-shaped landforms called "fans" sealed the deal: They looked
strikingly similar to photographs taken of features on Mars. </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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080717/sc_space/howmarsandalaskaarealike"><P>The
conditions on Mars are quite different than anything experienced on Earth. For
example, Mars is much colder than even the Arctic — the
average martian temperature is -81 degrees F (-63 degrees C) — and the
planet's atmospheric pressure is lower than Earth's. Still, for the same
features to be present on Earth and Mars, the two professors suspected similar
processes would have made them. </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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080717/sc_space/howmarsandalaskaarealike">They also show that although planets like the Earth and Mars
are very different places, in many ways they can be astoundingly similar.</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/CED7D845-1AB7-4D6E-9D05-236A7FE573EC/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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