Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!sunybcs!acscmad From: acscmad@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Domino) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Canals on Mars? Message-ID: <1137@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:33:23 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1137 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:33:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:25:28 EST Distribution: net Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Associated Press: SAN FRANCISCO - Water on Mars vanished after carving the famed canals 3 billion years ago, and scientists say discovering where it went will help them find drinking water for earthlings who someday may colonize the Red Planet. "Obviously, one would not want to take water on a journey to Mars, but would want to look for a local source," said Arizona State University geologist Ronald Greely, who headed a meeting of scientists preparing for an unmanned mission to Mars in 1990. The most likely sources of water are vapor in Mars' thin atmosphere, ice in its huge polar caps--which are mostly frozen carbon dioxide-- and permafrost that may lie under its reddish soil. The canals are 2,000 to 3,000 miles long and 1,000 feet deep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now the last I heard there were NO canals on Mars; that what seemed to be canals were only optical illusions caused by strings of craters, and that the truth was discovered with the advent of telescopes of adequate resolution. What's the truth, astronomers of the net? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael A. Domino uucp:[bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath]!sunybcs!acscmad SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science csnet:acscmad@buffalo arpanet:acscmad.buffalo@csnet-relay voice:(716)881-6420 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------