"Not an easy peak to locate while zipping over the mountains at 7 kilometers per second" [Via kuro5hin]

Once upon a time: India 'floated' up to Asia, and bashed the Himalayas up, and up, and up.

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Other title(s) for this story: The Many Faces of Mount Everest

ESA has new evidence of water on
Mars like we have oil on Earth.Site is in German (well, it is the European Space Agency's Mars Express) but you can download 17Mb tifs which give fairly good detal...
From metaFiler: At this point it seems fairly certain that a lot of the water is now underground (ESA artist's impression), and occasionally makes its way to the surface, sometimes carrying salt along the way (forming some of the more interesting surface structures on Mars, evaporites). But this can only be verified by the radar onboard of MEX, which will start operating in a couple of months.

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