Blame my star trek polluted mind but is there really any doubt? They speak so openly about gases and things like hydrogen, helium and oxygen being causes of light colours and all that - but no one has the balls to simply state that water must be present - since water is just oxygen and hydrogen. Further more, for quite a few years now I've been looking at extremely high quality pictures of mars surface from space, and really the landscape is almost no different to high quality pictures of Earth from space. The place has rivers and mountains and sand dunes and all that... but the thing is, you can't even see water or vegitation on Earth space pics unless it is in a large quantity - so small shrubs and lakes are quite possible... but what gets me most is, why do all images from the surface always look exactly the same... big flat surface riddles with pebbles. No area of mars is the same when you look at it from space, why should the surface... and besides - those pics just don't look natural. Don't get me wrong, i want to believe... but why is there no variation in the images? if you dropped a probe on Earth would it look the same no matter where you were?
Posted on Jan 23, 2004, 11:40 PM from IP address 203.61.64.18