May 7, 1999
Magnetic Stripes on Mars Imply Ancient Plate Tectonics
A team of American and French scientists last week announced the discovery of what appear to be ancient geological rifts on the Martian crust, the first evidence that a planet other than the Earth may have been shaped by plate tectonics.
In separate papers in the April 30 issue of Science, the researchers describe the presence of magnetic stripes on the surface of Mars that, they said, appear very much like
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