Caves on Mars?

Caves on Mars? 99

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:11AM from the little-green-cavemen dept.

RockDoctor writes "The BBC is reporting that the photo-surveying of Mars has revealed seven suspected cave entrances in the Arsia Mons volcanic area. This has been hinted at before — long sinuous channels in the same region have been interpreted as collapsed 'lava tube' caves — but the scale of the suggested entrances (sheer drops of 80 to 130m from the surrounding surface) makes my troglodytic hands twitch for my abseiling gear."

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Re:news? (Score:5, Insightful)

by rmadmin ( 532701 ) writes: <rmalek@@@homecode...org> on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:32AM (#18385681) Homepage

To some of us, it is news. To be completely honest, it had never occurred to me that there would be caves on Mars.

News for Nerds. Prussiks matter. (Score:2, Insightful)

by lightversusdark ( 922292 ) writes: on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:36AM (#18385715) Journal

Who here knew rock-climbers were nerds?

Alien base (Score:3, Insightful)

by ms1234 ( 211056 ) writes: on Saturday March 17, 2007 @12:20PM (#18386397)

Well, the sectoids have to live somewhere don't they?

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