[extropy-chat] Frozen water ice found by ESA Mars Express on Mars.

[Bret Kulakovich]

If considered in regard to the Quabbin Reservoir in western  
Massachusetts, USA:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=lakeville 
+mass&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=37.5,61.5584327179640


We're talking Quabbin at ~70km^2, versus this crater at ~225km^2.


Of course, there is a matter of depth...


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On Jul 29, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> Nice picture, quite striking. Of course, we knew there was frozen  
> water
> on Mars already, but the pooling in the crater floor demonstrates
> possibly that there was liquidity in the geologically recent past (or
> it may have just settled and precipitated from vapor at the lowest
> altitude in the crater floor). Keep in mind that crater is 35 km wide,
> so while it is a beautiful high res picture (the high res jpg is about
> 1500 px wide), it only shows details in the order of at least 10  
> meters
> per pixel.
>
> --- Bret Kulakovich <bret at bonfireproductions.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> Beautiful. It's just beautiful.
>>
>>
>> Enjoy the frosty Hi-rez goodness.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_1.html
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