http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/4273 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/oceans-are-back-mars <!--paging_filter--><p>Since spacecraft sent back the first close-up images of Mars more than 30 years ago, some experts have insisted that oceans once existed on the now dry, cold planet. Critics have maintained for decades that such an idea is the product of unrestrained imaginations. Now, a study published in the June 14 issue of the British journal Nature reports new evidence that our neighbor in space once boasted an ocean or oceans as big, relative to planet size, as the Atlantic on Earth.&nbsp; "We were able to lay to rest one of the main objections to the idea that there once were oceans on Mars," says Taylor Perron, a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/oceans-are-back-mars">read more</a></p> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:40:25 -0400 4272 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu