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From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 14:26:26 EDT
Fwd Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:51:44 -0400
Subject: Re: Lake Discovered on Mars


>From: JJ Mercieca <mufor@maltanet.net>
>Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:15:45 +0200
>Subject: Re: Lake Discovered on Mars
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

>As to the "lake" on Mars, there may be places on Mars where
>water in liquid form may exist .. e.g. at the bottom of deep
>canyons/chasms where the atmospheric pressure may be much higher
>than the surface pressure or where water is being "pumped out"
>from underground .... subsurface ice melted by volcanic activity
>or radioactive materials generating heat pumped out in the form
>of geysers .... who knows, no-one's been there yet :)  Anyway,
>Vince DiPietro and Dr Martin have found (a while ago) a couple
>of images from Viking taken 4 seconds apart that may show a
>geyser or water spout.  They may be found here :
>http://www.lauralee.com/JPL.htm

These are most likely pictures of the shadows of dust devils.
Other images of Mars show apparent tracks of giant tornado-like
storms across the surface.  A dust devil apparently was caught
in action when, between two frames of one of the Mars Viking
Landers, it blew away one of the little piles of soil when had
been scooped by the robot shovel-arm.

I have seen similar dust devils two years ago from Kitt Peak,
Arizona, site of the National Observatory.  In early May, about
noon, I could see, simultaneously, 8 or 9 dust devils in
different directions in the Sonora Desert.  The largest spanned
the width of my thumb at arm's length and was probably 25 miles
away (similar to the distance of Tucson, visible in another
direction).

Clear skies,

Bob Young