Martitz, fugitive

1995/05/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronomia

The problems raised in Oain six years ago have been dazzled by the astronomer. Everyone who went to a detailed study of Martitz had to go home empty-handed. The reason for despair is in the equator of Mars. There they discover something that absorbs the light from the radar. Thus, on Mars there is a whole region fleeing the radar. How is it possible?

In 1988, astronomers' headaches began. The radar signal to Mars was broadcast from California. They were waiting for the New Mexico Observatory to collect and analyze the radar shipment. Although they received beautiful images of the planet, no remains of the equatorial region appeared.

Bryan Butler, leader of the Astronomical Observatory of New Mexico, has spent the last six years looking at Mars, investigating what is in a region that does not reflect radar light. His hard work seems to have paid off. The recent Annual Astronomical Conference in Texas has announced that volcanic activity could influence the strange phenomenon occurring in the equator of Mars. According to his thesis at the Congress of Astronomy, the equator of Martitz is an extensive area covered by volcanic stones.

Butler claims that the thin layer formed by the ashes can absorb the light from the radar. As he explained in Texas, researchers in New Mexico have made numerous attempts to confirm this thesis. He explained, among others, the phenomena that occur in the Galapagos Islands, putting them as an example of what happens on Mars.