Help study Mars

[pygmy_giant]

This website asks for volunteers to help map geological phenomina on the surface of mars http://planetfour.org

Its fascinating.

[pygmy_giant]

I have decided that much of the surface of Mars looks like wood-chip wallpaper with a mould on it.

I've also found that staring at the surface of such a bleak and desolate planet as it moves through the infinity of space makes one feel insignificant and alone.

Still fascinating though .

[morphy_richards]

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[Ravenous]

I have decided that much of the surface of Mars looks like wood-chip wallpaper with a mould on it.

Now if they really found "mould" there, they would get very excited!

Unfortunately when I went in I got a warning that it probably wouldn't work until I updated my browser. If NASA can't fix these browser incompatibilities, what chance do the rest of us have?

Seriously, Mars has some interesting features, like those odd polygonal shapes that form from permafrost thawing and re-freezing... (Not sure if those count as geology though.)

[pygmy_giant]

Pedandically speaking the freezing an thawing of the (dry) ice sculpts the underlying surface of the planet so it is a geological process.

Practically speaking neither us nor our children will ever go there so who cares?

Makes one appreciate this planet a little more though.