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Mar 17 2007, 09:58 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 22-October 04 Member No.: 102 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6461201.stm
Scientists studying pictures from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the surface of Mars. well I guess that makes habitats a much easier task of creating now, plus with whatever we find in the walls of Valles Marineris. |
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Mar 18 2007, 10:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Lave-tube igneous speleothems will be about the same on Mars <and Venus, and Io> as on Earth.
Solution/Deposition speleothems are a whole different catetory. I suspect that low-altitude caves on Mars could well have sulfate mineral speleothems. If the "razorbacks" at Meridiani required liquid after the dunes were lithified and later fractured, than such mineral deposits could form in cave-like voids (or small solution cavities... sulfate geodes, anyone?) |
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