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Tuesday 15 November 2016

Scientists dive inside 'weird looking' Mars funnel for the first time

Scientists dive inside 'weird looking' Mars funnel for the first time

WALT: Reflect on what we read on NZ Herald on the Technology section. 
A graph charting the depth of the Hellas depression at different points. Photo / Joseph Levy / NASA
Today the article I chose to read was from the section Technology and it’s about scientists diving inside a weird looking Mars funnel for the first time. It was 2009 when Joseph Levy began poring over images from the surface of the Martian planet. He was fascinated by what he found. There,in high resolution photographs became back to earth by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was what Dr Levy describes as the "bullseye". He was looking deep into the eyes of two craters - known as the Hellas depression and the Galaxias Fossae depression. Others had looked before but nobody saw what he saw. Last week , Dr Levy and a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin , went deep inside the craters for the first time. That if life ever existed.

Here is the link if you want to read it

Thank you for reading.

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