Mars Mission
01- Canals
02- Mariners
03- Riverbeds
04- Sub-surface Ice
05- Fleet
06- Martian Ice
07- Slope Streaks
08- Water Found
09- Phyllocian Era
10- Theikian Era
11- Siderikan Era
12- Martian Regions
13- Obliquity
14- Martian Tectonics
15- Topographic Morph
16- Crustal Magnetism
17- Original Impact
18- Polar Regions
19- Hydrated Minerals
20- Theikian Warming
21- New Phoenix Snow
22- Equatorial Glaciers
23- Ancient Ice
24- Continental Snow Drift

7 - Slope Streaks

 

 

Amongst these variety of features related to water activity, one of the most prominent are 'slope streaks', stains that run down the slopes of valleys and canyon walls. They are the fastest changing feature on the Martian surface. For every hundred exising slope streaks there are seven more every Martian year.

In September 2005 streaks were found which had not shown up in photographs of the same areas taken in 1999, suggesting that there has been liquid water running on Mars' surface, not even thousands of years ago, but within the previous 6 years.

   
  Alan Lambert © 2009