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	<title>Comments on: Vast Ocean May Have Covered One-Third of Primordial Mars</title>
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		<title>By: Rick Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The idea of using river deltas to indicate the location of a former Martian ocean was a good idea. 

Stephen Clifford and Timothy Parker, in 2001, published the results of their attempt to identify shoreline evidence on Mars. Neither Clifford and Parker nor di Achille achieved the next logical step - fitting an ocean to their evidence although di Achille does show a superimposed ocean in one of his illustrations. 

A effort that does achieve a surprisingly close match to the Deuteronilus and Arabia shorelines delineated by Clifford and Parker is at the following web site: 

http://mysite.verizon.net/rickmsmith/MarsOceanProject.html

The fit was achieved by superimposing an ocean with a tide, something that di Achille apparently did not do.

It looks as though Clifford and Parker chose the right criteria in their search for residual shorelines on Mars.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idea of using river deltas to indicate the location of a former Martian ocean was a good idea. </p>
<p>Stephen Clifford and Timothy Parker, in 2001, published the results of their attempt to identify shoreline evidence on Mars. Neither Clifford and Parker nor di Achille achieved the next logical step &#8211; fitting an ocean to their evidence although di Achille does show a superimposed ocean in one of his illustrations. </p>
<p>A effort that does achieve a surprisingly close match to the Deuteronilus and Arabia shorelines delineated by Clifford and Parker is at the following web site: </p>
<p><a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/rickmsmith/MarsOceanProject.html" rel="nofollow">http://mysite.verizon.net/rickmsmith/MarsOceanProject.html</a></p>
<p>The fit was achieved by superimposing an ocean with a tide, something that di Achille apparently did not do.</p>
<p>It looks as though Clifford and Parker chose the right criteria in their search for residual shorelines on Mars.</p>
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		<title>By: Georg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Georg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;For one, where did all that water go?&quot;

Not a question really. 
Mars is smaller, exerts  less gravity.  No nitrogen in atmosphere. 
Thus, water vapour will be split by suns UV radiotin, the 
hydrogen vanishing into space, the oxygen making the suface red colour,
what is left, vanishes somewhat slower. 
On earth, almost no water vapour reaches the height of the ionosphere. 
Its like a incandescent lamp: the nitrogen or argon fill gas does not 
lower the vapour pressure of the tungsten filament, but it lowers 
the speed of evaporation.
Georg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;For one, where did all that water go?&#8221;</p>
<p>Not a question really.<br />
Mars is smaller, exerts  less gravity.  No nitrogen in atmosphere.<br />
Thus, water vapour will be split by suns UV radiotin, the<br />
hydrogen vanishing into space, the oxygen making the suface red colour,<br />
what is left, vanishes somewhat slower.<br />
On earth, almost no water vapour reaches the height of the ionosphere.<br />
Its like a incandescent lamp: the nitrogen or argon fill gas does not<br />
lower the vapour pressure of the tungsten filament, but it lowers<br />
the speed of evaporation.<br />
Georg</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Lee Elifritz</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/14/vast-ocean-may-have-covered-one-third-of-primordial-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-196426</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lee Elifritz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is old news. It already has a name - The MOLA Sea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is old news. It already has a name &#8211; The MOLA Sea.</p>
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