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Mars Orbiter Finds Martian Fissures That Filled With Water Eons Ago

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone, NASA reported. Researchers used images from the spacecraft's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera. Images of layered rock deposits at equatorial Martian sites show the clusters of fractures to be a type called deformation bands, caused by stresses below the surface in granular or porous bedrock. "Groundwater often flows along…

Congress

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Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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