Dried-up sea beds found on Mars 

NASA scientists have discovered ancient sea or lake beds on the surface of Mars that could once have harboured life, writes Jonathan Leake.

The discovery is among the most significant concerning Mars so far, because such places are the most likely locations for fossils or other signs of past life.

Nasa will announce the discovery in this week's edition of Science with the suggestion that the next generation of Mars landings should be sent to such areas.

This weekend a British group building a craft bound for Mars said it was already considering rerouting its vehicle, Beagle II, to land in the middle of one of the newly discovered sea beds.

Professor Colin Pillinger, an astronomer at the Open University who heads the Beagle II project, will also announce that he has raised the full £30m needed for the British mission.

He has just been offered £9m by the European Space Agency, with the rest coming from commercial sponsors. "We will launch in June 2003 and hope to land on Mars on Boxing Day," he said.

The Nasa discovery is based on images taken by Mars Global Surveyor, which has been orbiting the red planet for more than a year.

It is said to have sent back detailed pictures of rocks that could only have been created by sedimentation, in which particles sink to a sea bed and are compressed into rock.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

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thats not all they,re gonna find.mars & other planets we,re inhabited [as shown in bible] and destroyed by GOD way before man was formed!! .u.f.o.s are real--but not who most think they are--they are EVIL agents of satan! sent to decieve mankind,and most will be decieved [prophecied]---they are not 'cute little E,T,s--they are demonic!!

coming soon==the FINAL--BATTLE for the souls of men!!

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

asteroids & comets==exploded planets--when in the ages before GOD created man=adam there was a great WAR IN THE HEAVENS! the sons of GOD[fallen angels] co-habited with female-humans creating a race of hybrids-giants-this is why GOD destroyed ancient world as in day's of noah so great was the wickedness-and so will it happen again->JESUS said''as in the day,s of noah-so shall it be ,before he returns--aliens[e.t.s-mix with humans-creating a race of monsters!! there is no such thing[as good aliens] sent to help mankind,from destroying ourselves--it is the GREAT--DECEPTION! WE ARE NOT DESCENDENTS OF THE gods[a so-called superior race of beings] there is only 1 TRUE=GOD-THE GOD OF THE BIBLE!!

and GOD will give=the CHRIST haters OVER to the great-deception!! satan will be cast out of the lower heavens onto the earth and the battle of the ages--and destruction & terror,like the world has never known will take place---read the book of ezekiel--there you see the picture of U.F.O.s--read about the earth being void & dark--because it was ,as we,re other planets, a place of the war between good & evil---which is going to happen again--only this time for keeps!!

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

Al--

Chapter and verse please.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000