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Re: Image: On the rim of Schiaparelli crater

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Image: On the rim of Schiaparelli crater
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-image-rim-schiaparelli-crater.html
> 
> 
> 
>> Giovanni Schiaparelli is famous for observing straight-line features
>> on Mars that he called 'canali'. This term was mistakenly translated
>> into English as 'canal' instead of 'channel', conjuring up images of
>> vast irrigation networks constructed by intelligent beings.
>>
>> We now know that Schiaparelli's canali were illusions created by the
>> comparatively poor telescopes of the time and that there are no
>> water-filled channels on Mars today ? but there is plenty of evidence
>> that water was once present in Mars' past. The Schiaparelli basin may
>> be one such location: layers in its walls and deposits on its floor
>> suggest it once hosted a lake. The scene shown here has also been
>> modified by lava flows and wind erosion.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the 'other' Schiaparelli, that of the ExoMars 2016
>> mission, is getting ready ? along with the Trace Gas Orbiter ? to
>> leave Europe for its launch site in Kazakhstan. They are due for
>> launch on a Russian Proton rocket in March 2016, arriving at the Red
>> Planet in October.
 
Grade school puff piece. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Image: On the rim of Schiaparelli crater Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 07:26 -0600
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