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How Groundwater Shaped Mars

Posted February 25, 2008 8:46 AM

From SPACE.com:

Crusty, dusty and rusty describes the Mars of today. Surface features of the Red Planet, however, hint at a watery past where torrents of groundwater carved out deep canyons, formed sweeping fans of sediment and cemented together huge fault lines. "Groundwater probably played a major role in shaping many of the things we see on the Martian surface," said George Postma, a sedimentologist at UtrechtUniversity in the Netherlands.

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02/26/2008 8:54 AM

The surface of Mars has evidence of major trama at some time in its distant past along with this evidence of ground water causing errosion. The earth has also evidence of being struck by an object the size of Mars and is believed to have caused the formation of our Moon.

Could it be that Mars did strike the Earth or passed so close as to have caused these events through graitational pull and at the same time the earth inheritted the Oceans of Mars because of its greater mass? Maybe we 'are' Martians originanly?

If Electrons on the atomic scale can leap from one energy state to another maybe we as a seeming elecron of our Sun could face such an event in the future or does this hypothysis not hold up?

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02/26/2008 11:57 PM

Of there is water, then Man could colonize Mars. It might be difficult, but it could be done.

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