Mars Pictures From European Spacecraft Are Incredible (PHOTOS)

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Huffington Post   |   July 16, 2008 12:19 PM



The European spacecraft in orbit around Mars has sent back these incredible, high-resolution images of the planet's surface. The photos remind us that Mars' past was filled with fast-flowing streams, rivers and oceans.

Pictures from AP, Reuters and AFP.

 
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I'm gonna go re-read Velikovsky.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:48 PM on 07/20/2008

And we can't a decent photo of a bank robber???????????

oy...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:25 PM on 07/17/2008

Is that Manhattan in the top one with Jersey on the left?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:07 PM on 07/17/2008

Davi-dAF: "Wow, Its amazing how a lot of you are infusing political jokes with this story. You people not only have no idea of how to make humorous points that are even remotely funny, you people have no life at all. I know you all "think" your so smart but this only proves how really dumb you are. Pretty lame brain stuff. ..."

SG: I'm with you on this lame brain stuff ... people should use their ram brain more.

Snerd

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:32 PM on 07/17/2008

Fascinating photos. If what we are seeing is evidence that Mars at one time had rivers and streams, there's more than an outside life that it also had life. To what extent life flourished there can, at this point, only be speculated on, but if it evolved to what we think of as intelligent life, it would be incredibly interesting to know what happened to them. Did they die as the planet died? Were they advanced enough to have a way to vacate their dying planet and resume life elsewhere? Could they be our long ago, unknown ancestors? Did they colonize on some other far away planet and continue to develop the ability to travel through space, and could they have something to do with the objects that have been spotted (although not identified) in the skies over our own planet for hundreds of years? So many questions and possibilities could exist based on our ability to interpret these photos and continue our own space exploration. Someone said, years ago: "I sometimes think we are alone in this universe, and I sometimes think we are not. Either way, the thought is mind boggling." (Or something like that.)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:47 PM on 07/17/2008
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Does it bother anyone else that ESA always gets better stuff from Mars than NASA? And that they share it with the world almost immediately, while NASA has to "doctor" their photos first? And lie that the new lander could only take black & white photos when it first touched down?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:43 PM on 07/17/2008

I would be more pissed if NASA and ESA felt the need to compete with, instead of compliment, each others work. I mean it would be totally sweet if NASA spent its budget on making something to do exactly what Mars Express Probe is doing...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:00 PM on 07/17/2008

Please God let them find life on Mars....so all the bible thumpers will shut there pies holes. heee.hee

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:07 PM on 07/17/2008

those bible thumpers are already pre-empting the time that life is found on other plants with the "fact" that God made them too. pretty convenient.....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 PM on 07/17/2008

Perhaps a higher power did put the events of universe in motion. One thing for sure, Earth will likely look like Mars if we continue to abuse our Mother Earth.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:34 PM on 07/17/2008

There has just been a report that several Middle East nations are already disputing territory.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:31 PM on 07/17/2008

Did you guys know that one of Mars' moons was made by the Martians millions of years ago?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:16 PM on 07/17/2008
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That's not a moon. It's a space station!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:43 PM on 07/17/2008

Mars was the old Earth. We trashed it and left to come here. If you look hard there's a bas-relief of a guy on hands and knees sucking oil out of the ground with a straw.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 PM on 07/17/2008

Man obviously has lived there, what other organism could have so effectively destroyed the planet through global warming.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 PM on 07/17/2008

I don't know how to explain what I feel when I think that across the universe there are places that will never be seen by anything intelligent, yet they go on eroding, cracking, crumbling, quaking, rising, falling, living, and dying. It's lonely and stark. Yet, unbelievably beautiful.

I think it was Buzz Aldrin who described the moon as, "Magnificent desolation."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:23 AM on 07/17/2008

Wow, Its amazing how a lot of you are infusing political jokes with this story. You people not only have no idea of how to make humorous points that are even remotely funny, you people have no life at all. I know you all "think" your so smart but this only proves how really dumb you are. Pretty lame brain stuff.

You do know Devry University can help people who are less educated, right?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:41 AM on 07/17/2008
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Nice grammar! You should practice your spelling before you criticize! DUH!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:58 AM on 07/17/2008

I'm sorry but I was unaware that grammar had anything to do with facts? Care to explain? Anyway, Huffpo posters have become a joke, it's all about having a funny pun or comeback, so lame, get a life you guys ;)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 AM on 07/17/2008
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Guess I'd better stop infusing political jokes with my stories, or even in them.
Good luck with your studies at Devry!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 AM on 07/17/2008

"I know you all "think" your so smart but this only proves how really dumb you are."

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you didn't do that on purpose.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:56 AM on 07/17/2008

Most schools can help people that are less educated. That's what they are for.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:11 PM on 07/17/2008
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yet you deign to comment. funny thing about arrogance: it's impossible to disguise, it betrays the person who acts out of accordance with it, and, especially this, if the expression of arrogance is festooned with spelling and syntactical errors, well, let's just say that everyone you insulted smells what YOU'RE cooking, davidaf. (pls. note proper spelling of the contraction for "you are")

"infusing political jokes with this story" doesn't even make sense, btw

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:49 PM on 07/17/2008

Oh, but this is impossible! The universe is only 6000 years old and somehow we managed to walk with the dinosaurs, too.

Seriously, though. Fabulous pics. Truly exciting.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:52 AM on 07/17/2008

Awww, c'mon. You know very well that God put together the universe intact to LOOK old, just to fool us & test our faith.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:34 AM on 07/17/2008

hahahaha!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:55 AM on 07/17/2008

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Of course, that means God is a liar and deceiver. Oh, well. You can only choose your friends, I guess, not the creator of the universe.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 AM on 07/17/2008
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Oh, so God works for one of those prop houses in Hollywood that age clothes and cars and buildings and everything else they use in the movies that's supposed to be old! Now I get it. Thanks for the clarification.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:47 PM on 07/17/2008

God buried fossils to test our faith. He's a prankster god!

(man o man, where's bill hicks when you need him)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 PM on 07/17/2008

Cool pics.

Manuel

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:46 AM on 07/17/2008
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