Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Relocating to ... Mars?

Could the Red Planet be our next home? If climate change continues at its present pace on both planets, perhaps.

A pair of geology professors has just discovered that Alaska and Mars share some strikingly similar geological formations, caused in both cases by an astonishing number of snow and ice avalanches — caused, in turn, by temperature changes. Global warming is apparently occurring on both worlds, but since the median temperature on Mars is -81 degrees F., we've got a ways to go before our prospective new habitat will be too hot for humans to handle.

So start packing.