New Artist renderings of Mars as a waterworld page 1

Michael Taylor

March 16th, 2004, 09:26 PM

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That's the link. Its on the space.com website.

Another link below if the one above doesn't work:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ancient_mars_020104.html

Amazing renderings of mars when it had water. I can just see a couple of scout cruisers exploring the world.

Lord Iron Wolf

March 18th, 2004, 09:29 PM

Thanks Micheal,

Interesting link (I used the second one) but there is one thing which bothers me. Craters on Mars were formed after the tectonics of the planet were dead and couldn't form new land and plates. What we're looking is at a dead Mars which is flooded, not what the planet looked like when it still had water to lubricate the tectonic plates and keep them in motion.

All that aside the flooding of numerous craters could be a sign of terraforming of a planet or moon and would be a clue to players of "recent developments." It could be the start of a nice little mystery for a group to solve about a planet.

As an aside, has anyone else seen the tabloid out with the screaming headline of "Strange new breed of cat found on Mars," or something like that. LOL on that one.

Lord Iron Wolf