#Futurama face of mars full#

For the study, they looked at images of 262 breached crater lakes that were collected by remote sensing satellites. The researchers decided as a next step to look at the impact of this flooding on a global scale. Previous research from the group discovered that some of the crater lakes were prone to rapid flooding as a result of rainstorms and snowmelt that filled them up. “It changes how we study these rivers because a river that forms in one day and forms a huge valley is very different from a river that formed over millions of years, so we need to reassess how we study the shapes and evolution of these river systems.” “This hydrological activity was really active for some reason between 4 billion years and 3.5 billion years ago when it peaked, and we see loads of rivers that are about this age,” said Stucky de Quay. It also shows these types of floods on the red planet were much more common than previously thought and were an important geographical process. The study results provide scientists new insights into river formation on Mars and how it differed from the usually slow and gradual process on Earth. In fact, the breach floods eroded more than enough sediment to completely fill Lake Superior and Lake Ontario.Īlthough flood evidence has been observed previously on Mars, this is the first time that scientists have quantified how widespread it was, particularly during the planet’s early history. Landscapes and other geological features were rapidly reshaped in a matter of days or weeks. The impact on the planet was powerful and almost immediate. “What ends up happening is that all these rivers are just flowing and then fill up and then they overflow and make these catastrophic floods.”

#Futurama face of mars full#

“Mars, like the moon, is completely filled with lots and lots of craters, so you have this landscape that’s kind of like a golf ball that’s just full of little holes,” said Stucky de Quay. It appears the ensuing floods loosed immense amounts of water, along with sediment. Scientists analyzed satellite images and sophisticated topographical mapping of these dried-up water basins on Mars to determine what happened when the lakes that used to fill the planet’s giant craters overflowed, likely due to immense rainstorms. Large river systems covered about 50 percent of the planet during this time, and large crater lakes that could hold up to a small ocean’s worth of water were common. Years of evidence show that Mars had streams, ponds, lakes, and maybe even seas and oceans around 4 billion years ago. The project team includes Harvard postdoctoral research fellow Gaia Stucky de Quay from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and scientists from the University of Texas at Austin. This study builds on previous work looking at the planet’s water systems and was published late last year in Nature. New research finds that billions of years ago Mars was beset by catastrophic river flooding that played a massive role in shaping what the planet’s expansive but now dry network of valleys looks like today, with its deep chasms and canyons.

If it were red it would clash with Fry's hair.You wouldn’t know it to look at Mars now, but rushing waters that crested banks had a hand in sculpting the face of the bone-dry red planet. According to the commentary for ' Mars University', Mars' sky is yellow instead of red.Olympus Mons, a mountain/volcano found on Mars, is the biggest mountain/volcano in the solar system.

Its the second smallest planet in our solar system.

However, following ' A Farewell to Arms', Mars has since become the 3rd planet of the Solar System. There is reportedly a tropical jungle filled with earth native animals with subtle differences, such as elephants and tigers that climb trees. However (unlike Utah), it was 'eventually made livable' when Mars University was founded in 2636. In the 20th century, Mars was a 'dreary, uninhabitable wasteland' (much like Utah, according to the Professor).