Dec 22, 2006 12:29 PM

A Bridge on Mars

This new Planetary Society blog is rocking my extraterrestrial world.

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00000793/

A natural bridge on Mars. Imagine walking across that thing. Wow.

Now imagine terraforming Mars so that you could walk on
Mars without a spacesuit, and finding out that the warmth and the water had collapsed that gorgeous little thing like a puff pastry.

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