Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing On Mars 61
Riding with Robots writes "Mars researchers report that a robotic spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that once directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone. 'This study provides a picture of not just surface water erosion, but true groundwater effects widely distributed over the planet,' said one of the mission scientists for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been regularly returning terabytes of high-resolution images and other kinds of data from Mars."
Plumbing? (Score:5, Funny)
Who cares about alien plumbing?
I want their electronics!
Re:Plumbing? (Score:5, Funny)
Ignorant fool!
Everyone knows that the key to intergalactic understanding is knowledge of the location and inner workings of alien plumbing!
Why do you think everytime another intergalactic race stops by here, that they anal prob our hillbillies?
Plumbing inspection, i'm telling you!
Re:Plumbing? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Misguided (Score:4, Funny)
Waste of resources? How else would we know that Martian rocks have cracks in them
Re:Plumbing? (Score:2, Funny)
Who cares about alien plumbing?
Itsa me, Mario!
Re:Misguided (Score:2, Funny)
Having a moon base, on the other hand, would not be a major waste of funds.
Re:Data rate of 6Mb/s (Score:5, Funny)
You could have gone to the homepage http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ [nasa.gov]
There it states 67.5 Terrabits received. (Terrabits, not terrabytes)
They could have gotten it down to 99 kb, but the damn webmaster insisted on a Flash animation.
Re:Plumbing? (Score:3, Funny)