I watched John Carter of Mars (Barsoom) on the flight over the pond here
and I *saw* water... not much, but *enough*... so don't let them tell
you otherwise!
whole Mars water (in surface minerals) relief map -- huge impact areas
with same age fresh craters -- impact with core stream of Taurid ice
comet fragments? Rich Murray 2012.08.21
Hello Ron Baalke,
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA16083
whole Mars surface relief with water content in surface minerals from
3% red to 7% purple,
with MSL Curiosity at 136.7 -4.3 deg inside NW part of Gale Crater,
1287x967 px tif image 3.6 MB
An absolute geology novice, I was immediately struck by the cluster of
large, uniformly sharp, fresh looking craters in a huge central blue
region with a green edge, -20 to 60 deg longitude -30 to 45 deg
latitude, which in Google Picasa can be magnified with Ctrl + , about
four widths,
and similar features in the closeup view that incudes Gale Crater,
at 132 to 144 deg longitude, -12 to -2 deg latitude
On Earth, such comet fragment storms are megaton level air bursts a
few km above the surface, while in the much thinner gas of Mars, most
would be, at a guess, a multitude of rather clean surface explosions
without prior deep penetration, producing a collective outward surge
of very dense dirty water and steam, comparable to an oceanic shore
tsunami.
On Mars, such regions would show a multitude of fresh shallow simple
craters, with tsunami scale erosion and redeposition, evidence for a
single unique event in time for each region.
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/ Dennis Cox paradigm
within mutual service, Rich Murray
http://rmforall.blogspot.com
See also: www.cosmictusk.blog
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2268163/Paleolithic%20extinctions.pdf
free full text 7 pages
W. M. Napier, Taurid ice comet fragment swarm paradigm 2010 March 3
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Ron Baalke <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-254
NASA's Curiosity Studies Mars Surroundings, Nears Drive
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 21, 2012
An instrument provided by Russia is checking for water bound into minerals in
the top
three feet (one meter) of soil beneath the rover. It employs a technology that
is used
in oil prospecting on Earth, but had never before been sent to another planet.
"Curiosity has begun shooting neutrons into the ground," said Igor Mitrofanov
of Space
Research Institute, Moscow, principal investigator for this instrument, called
the
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, or DAN. "We measure the amount of hydrogen in the
soil by
observing how the neutrons are scattered, and hydrogen on Mars is an indicator of
water."
The most likely hydrogen to be found in shallow ground of Gale Crater, near the
Martian
equator, is in hydrated minerals. These are minerals with water molecules, or
related
ions, bound into the crystalline structure of rocks. They can tenaciously
retain water
from a wetter past after all free water has gone.
The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in
Washington.
The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of Caltech.
More information about Curiosity is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl and
http://www.nasa.gov/msl .
You can follow the mission on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and
on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .
Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
[email protected]
Guy Webster / D.C. Agle 818-354-6278 / 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
[email protected] / [email protected]
2012-254
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