Water Found in Mars Megacanyon
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Melas Chasma, a huge canyon forming part of the 4000-kilometer Valles Marineris rift valley on Mars, plunges 9 kilometers below the surrounding plains in this image, which was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space Agency‘s Mars Express orbiter, making it one of the deepest depressions on Mars.
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The image also shows evidence that water once flowed and lakes once stood on the Martian surface. White lines are channels cut by water and lighter-coloured regions indicate deposits of sulphate components. Rock formations display evidence of flow textures, indicating that they were once deposited by liquid water, water ice or mud.
Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)/Released by the German Aerospace Center
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Metaphor for an astronomical quest, a mechanical firefly is just a glimmer next to a 5-foot-wide (1.5-meter-wide) searchlight. Astronomers hoping to capture the light of an Earth-size planet around a star billions of times brighter compare the feat to picking a firefly from a searchlight’s glare 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) away, on a foggy night.
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Republished from the pages of National Geographic magazine
It’s past midnight in the dim telescope control room, but Dominique Naef’s day has suddenly brightened. He twitches his computer cursor over a wavy line. “I like it,” the Swiss astronomer says, beaming. “I like it a lot. Wow.”
Fifty light-years away in the night sky, a star like our sun is doing a stately dance, stepping toward Earth and away again. From the La Silla Observatory in the mountains of Chile, Naef and his colleagues have stolen glimpses of the dance for months. But for much of that time their view was blocked by clouds, a foot of snow, and, this August night—midwinter in Chile—humidity so high that the telescope dome had to be shut to keep out frost. Earlier in the evening, between cups of espresso and cigarette breaks, Naef gloomily eyed a display of weather data. He feared another lost night.
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