The red planet
The fourth planet from the sun, Mars is one of our closest neighbors yet it remains a mystery. There is strong evidence that water once flowed on the planet, but what happened to make it disappear? Is there life there? So many questions, yet our quest to learn more about the red planet is just beginning. The Mars rover Curiosity is scheduled to launch in late 2011 and land on the red planet in August 2012. (Text: Katherine Butler)
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I'd really like to be around when the time comes for a largescale exploration of Mars. There's no telling what might be found there. I just wish that the exporation would come within a shorter time frame. To me it is a more exciting idea that the moon landing. If any form of life has ever existed on Mars, it could change mankinds's thoughts about a lot of things. What a very exciting moment it will be.
Wonderful picture. Our neighbord mars is so beautiful but at the same time to complex to figure out.
The same thing happened on Mars that will happen here - when we start digging, we will find cities and villages destroyed by natural disasters brought on by global warming from atmosphere corruption. The kicker though will be when HUMANS are found in those ruins!
Global Warming? LoL. Mars used to have liquid water and was warm. Today it's a frozen planet. Seems you have your facts wrong.. Mars is much much colder than in the past. Maybe we should do everything we can to raise the temperture of the Earth so we don't suffer from some global "cold shift"
That is a great thought. But the geology of the planets in our Solar System would have to be at least partially rewritten for it to be so.
I agree with Anonymous. While we know SOME about our neighboring planets, how much do we really know? What percentage? How much do we know about our own planet? Until we are there poking and prodding, we can know very little about what lies beneath its red dust.
>>That is a great thought. But the geology of the planets in our Solar System would have to be at least partially rewritten for it to be so.
It wouldn't be the first time, since we seem to it a lot already as we learn more and more. They now are starting to say we have a missing planet the size of Jupiter. NEVER assume you know everything someone will surely change it for you.
Great shots, I've saved these alongside my collection of Mars Rover landscape shots... Always fun for us ERB fans!
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