More Evidence for Mars Water
Image credit: G. Di Achille, University of Colorado
A story at Science Daily reports “definitive evidence” for a 3 billion year-old lake on the surface of Mars. Using the high resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter, scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have published a paper in the online version of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. I cannot locate the article on the the GSL site.
From the SD article:
An analysis of the HiRISE images indicate that water carved a 30-mile-long canyon that opened up into a valley, depositing sediment that formed a large delta. This delta and others surrounding the basin imply the existence of a large, long-lived lake
Kenn Thomas pointed out in his heads-up to me that one of the co-authors of the study is an assistant professor named Brian Hynek. He is not one of J. Allen Hynek’s children, but may be a grandchild. Can someone confirm this?
The University of Colorado at Boulder was also the base of operations for the so-called “Condon Committee” study of UFO evidence from 1966 to 1968.
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Jun 17 2009 
June 18th, 2009 at 3:16 am
IMHO, they are taking tooo long to make the case for water in Mars.
It’s the kind of thing that makes me speculate that it’s all part of a long-term cultural acclimatization program, so that in 20 years they’ll go and say “Yep, there was life on Mars”, and maybe in 100 years they’ll say “Oh, and in case you’re wondering, there’s intelligent life out there in the Universe”; although by that time most people would probably say “Meh” and go about their business.
Of course, this speculation is trumped by the fact that in the next 10-15 years there’s a good chance our Astronomers will find a second Earth —a rocky planet well inside the habitable zone of its star, with an indisputable signature of life from the spectrographic readings of its atmosphere— That finding might speed up things a bit
June 20th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Go to this site and click on the “Mars” tab at the left, then scroll down a little and click on the “Mars Water Pages”, and, ‘my favourite “Lake”‘. I think this is a frozen lake with a thin layer of dust on it, either that or a lake of obsidian!
http://www.ufologie.net/indexe.htm
June 20th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Here’s another site with high resolution images that clears up some Martian mysteries like the so called “trees”. Note what seems to be images of running liquid further down the page, and the blotchy, spotty things.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mgmirkin/MarsImages#