Patrick reported in the SLAS 2-24-2005 daily newswire that - ESA's Mars Express sees signs of a 'frozen sea' 23 February 2005 This image, taken by the Mars Express spacecraft, shows what appears to be a dust-covered frozen sea near the Martian equator. http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMCHPYEM4E_0.html A more detailed abstract of Murray's paper can be found at the March 18th morning session of the - 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference March 14-18, 2005 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/ Evidence from HRSC Mars Express for a Frozen Sea Close to Mars Equator [#1741] Murray J. B. * Muller J.-P. Neukum G. Werner S. C. Hauber E. Markiewicz W. J. Head J. W. III Foing B. H. Page D. Mitchell K. L. Portyankina G. HRSC Investigator Team Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI (2005) "We present evidence for a presently-existing frozen sea, with surface pack-ice, at 5°N, 150°E, age ca. 5 million years. It measures ca. 800 × 900 km and averages ca. 45 m deep. It has probably been protected from complete sublimation by ash and a sublimation lag of exposed sediment." ftp://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/outgoing/lpsc2005/full97.pdf The March 18th morning session of the LPSC has many papers that may change our worldview of Mars as a "dry" planet. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/program.pdf - Peace - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com