Mars Gullies Likely Formed By Underground Aquifers
Mars Gullies Likely Formed By Underground Aquifers
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 12 November 2004
08:00 am ET
The revelation in 2000 that gully features have been spotted on Mars sparked numerous ideas as to how the geological features were formed.
A study team is analyzing images of gullies captured by the Mars Global Surveyor’s (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera, adding in laser altimeter and spectrometer data taken by the same spacecraft. They believe the gullies are the products of shallow and deep aquifers in Mars' subsurface.
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