Abstract
Past astronomers debated the possibility of canals on Mars, perhaps engineered by an advanced civilization desperately holding on to the dwindling moisture of a dying planet. JPL’s Timothy Parker takes us to the real Mars, where past epochs have left the fingerprints of flood plains, river valleys, and perhaps telltale evidence of beaches lining vast oceans of acidic water.
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This research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Parker, T. (2013). Oceans on Mars. In: Carroll, M., Lopes, R. (eds) Alien Seas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7473-9_3
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