History Channel
Season 1 Episode.02
http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujm1-ieo7D4
EXCERPTS:
Tallest Peak in Solar System
"a mountain named the Olympus Mons (at Mars), Latin for mount Olimpus,
is the tallest known peak in the solar system."
If you took a picture of Olympus Mons, and put it next to mount Everest,
and the big island of Hawaii, even taken all the way down to he base of the ocean,
they'll look like molehills, compared with Olympus Mons on Mars.
That mount is so large you can be on its slopes and you would not know that you're on a slope of a volcano.
Water needs both warmth and pressure to remain in liquid form.
1938, War of the Worlds.
VALLES MARINERIS: Mariner Valleys
"You know the Grand Canyon in the United States?
Pump it up, put it on steroids, make it the size of the United States itself
you got Mariner Valleys.
The geological mechanism that causes this immense rupture in the Martian surface is ye a mystery.
Scientists can only speculate.
Face on Mars
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Space Crafts and Probes sent to Mars by NASA:
Mariner 4: 1964,
Mariner 9: 1971,
Viking: 1976
Spirit & Opportunity: 2003, 2 Exploration Rovers, Spirit died recently in 2011.
New mission to Mars, launched in the summer of 2007, Phoenix, and its plan is to place a stationary lander in the reaching of the martian North Pole.
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