signs discovered in images?
2007-11-14 04:55:47 · 5 answers · asked by terethian 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Not necessarily. Mars is a dusty, windy place and erosion would wreak havoc on any sort of edifice. Look at the pyramids - they're only around 10k years old, and they're quite worse for wear. 10k years is the blink of an eye to a planet. Our technology today would be worn down a lot faster than that.
Whatever wasn't worn down by millinea of sand blasting would be buried in the dust. The Mars rovers have problems with dust accumulating on their solar panels. It would take a pretty close look to discover ruins of ancient civilizations on Mars.
By the way, Cydonia is NOT such a place. The face on Mars was just like a face in the clouds - a product of random factors combined with the human tendency to recognize faces. Higher resolution images reveal it to be an uninteresting mesa like the many many others on the planet.
2007-11-14 05:04:16 · answer #1 · answered by ZeroByte 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Mars was ever as populated as Earth is right now there would no doubt be more obvious signs of it discovered in images. I think that most scientist believe that Mars lost it's atmosphere long ago along with any water that was on it's surface. Mars doesn't have the same mass as Earth. It's a lot smaller and also has less gravity and no strong magnetic field like the Earth has. All this lead scientists to believe that it is doubtful that intelligent life ever had a chance to develop on Mars.
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2007-11-14 14:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. Even now, there is some wind erosion going on, and presumably around the time of the fall of this hypothetical civilization, there would have been more atmosphere and water. A billion years later, there could easily be no obvious remains.
2007-11-14 13:53:07 · answer #3 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, imagine ruins of cities and statues. The sun hasn't been around long enough and there isn't much of an atmosphere to fix and erode the damage a civilization would leave on mars to the point of not leaving a trace.
2007-11-14 13:04:15 · answer #4 · answered by Zedd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the populations were able to affect their environments, then yes.
But who's saying that it was? If it was populated by bacteria, we wouldn't be able to tell without very rigorous and in-depth studies.
2007-11-14 13:01:55 · answer #5 · answered by Brian L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋