Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars

Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/...tonics-on-mars

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An Yin, professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, spotted the tectonic activity in Valles Marineris
a 4000-km-long canyon system named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter that discovered the system in the 1970s.
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On 24/08/2012 3:51 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/...tonics-on-mars

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An Yin, professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, spotted the tectonic activity in Valles Marineris
a 4000-km-long canyon system named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter that discovered the system in the 1970s.
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Mars' core is so cold now that it probably couldn't sustain plate
tectonics for more than a billion years or so.

Yousuf Khan

On a sunny day (Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:56:37 -0400) it happened Yousuf Khan
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On 24/08/2012 3:51 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/...tonics-on-mars

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An Yin, professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, spotted the tectonic activity in Valles Marineris
a 4000-km-long canyon system named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter that discovered the system in the 1970s.
end quote

Mars' core is so cold now that it probably couldn't sustain plate
tectonics for more than a billion years or so.

Yousuf Khan

That is perhaps not correct.
I have seen pictures of geysers (hot water springs) on mars.
The other thing that amazes me is the rather high surface temperature,
at times above freezing, that is being measured now.
It is much higher than the atmospheric temperature measurements takes.
Ad there is the lake at Reull Vallis:
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/space/mars/index.html
I would have preferred a landing there,
if I wanted a sterilized place so not to find life I would land in a dead volcano,

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ...

On 24/08/2012 3:51 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/...tonics-on-mars

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An Yin, professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles,
spotted the tectonic activity in Valles Marineris
a 4000-km-long canyon system named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter that
discovered the system in the 1970s.
end quote

Mars' core is so cold now that it probably couldn't sustain plate
tectonics for more than a billion years or so.

Yousuf Khan
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Mars doesn't have a huge moon to flex it tidally, Phobos and Deimos are
a couple of pebbles.
Every Formula I driver knows the way to put heat into his tyres is to flex
them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvjabH8I4WA
Notice the pickup's tyres are cool before the chase.
The heat in Earth's mantle is caused by the Moon and Sun's gravity,
trapped by the insulating layer of the crust.
Yousuf Khan should probably shut the **** up as he probably doesn't
know what he's probably babbling about.


-- Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway