How Can We Come to Understand MARS?

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How Can We Come to Understand MARS?

How do we come to really understand something?? What am I looking at? What is it? How did it get there? What events resulted in it being there? This is the idea of cause and effect. What do you need in order to be sure that one thing caused another thing to happen?

What Spirit sees

What Opportunity Sees

Which is which?

Olympus Mons: The Largest Volcano in the Solar System

Smaller volcanoes on the Tharis Bulge

Valles Marineris

Compare these images of the North Pole of Mars

South Pole of Mars

Compare the two images of the regions at the South Pole of Mars

Where's the water today?

Strange Plates on surface near the equator on Mars

What is the Key to Discovering Cause & Effect ? Could one effect actually cause the other? Is it possible when you consider forces required? Is the time order correct? Did one thing happen before another?

Where are the Outflows and the Tributaries

Olympus Mons

On the slope of Olympus Mons

Outflow region

Gustav Crater (where Spirit is)

So how can we figure out Cause and Effect on Mars???