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#1 2004-05-19 21:36:25

Palomar
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Re: Ancient Marsian Weather

*I didn't know quite -where- to start this thread.  Anyway, if there was lightning on Mars in its past (*not* the electrical discharges from dust devils), would there be evidence of lightning strikes on Mars?  Yes, I know...dust, sand, etc., might obliterate some evidence.  But I'm wondering if there wouldn't be evidence of strikes on cliff walls, etc.

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#2 2004-05-20 11:05:05

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Re: Ancient Marsian Weather

On the Earth, Lightning can produce root like fusions of soil. If such things formed on Mars and could survive impacts, there might still be a few.


"Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!"  -Earl Bassett

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