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'Significant amounts of water' found in Mars' massive version of the Grand Canyon
2021-12-17
[CNN] Mars has its own version of the Grand Canyon, and scientists have learned this dramatic feature is home to "significant amounts of water" after a discovery made by an orbiter circling the red planet, according to the European Space Agency.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, launched in 2016 as a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos, detected the water in Valles Marineris on Mars. This canyon system is 10 times longer, five times deeper and 20 times wider than the Grand Canyon.

The water is located beneath the surface of the canyon system and was detected by the orbiter's FREND instrument, or Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector. This instrument is able to map hydrogen in the top meter (3.28 feet) of Martian soil.

Most water on Mars is located in the planet's polar regions and remains frozen as water ice. Valles Marineris is just south of the planet's equator, where temperatures typically aren't cold enough for water ice to remain.
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Posted by:Vespasian Ebboting9735

#5  I just hope that when we terraform Mars that we do it right this time. Whoever worked on it last were amateurs.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-12-17 20:04  

#4  I will be thrilled to see the first data from a manned mars mission that basically says this is all bunk. Then the idiots publishing this crap will switch to only observations of "planets" too far away for their "results" to be found wrong.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-17 18:12  

#3  
Exercise in Clairvoyance

2022 March 17 Headline

Ireland Launches 1st Ever Mission to Mars

In its first ever space mission, Ireland reaches for Mars, to use the newly found abundant water supply for agricultural purposes, that is to raise barley, malt, and hops. This is all in an effort to bring Beer and Whiskey to new reaches of our solar system and ultimately to the far reaches of the Universe.
Irish whiskey (Irish: Fuisce or uisce beatha) is whiskey made on the island of Ireland. The word 'whiskey' (or whisky) comes from the Irish uisce beatha, meaning water of life. Mars is after all named for Roman god of war and agriculture. The Irish are well known for their Red Beer as well.
Off to Mars it is, the Red Planet, don't forget the Irish Yeast Killian, or it'll be off with Yeast head.

Posted by: Daffy Whuth3528   2021-12-17 14:58  

#2  5x10x20 the GC?
So that's where all the air went!
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-17 13:37  

#1  Used to be referred to as "Rasmussen Gorge" Read that someplace.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2021-12-17 11:35  

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