Wired has pictures as does Google News (again). I’ve got them here as well.
From VOA:
Edgett’s (Kenneth Edgett of Malin Space Systems, one of the scientists who revealed the surprise findings at a NASA news briefing in Washington) partner, Michael Malin, says they believe the liquid is water from underground judging by the way it flowed around obstacles and spread into numerous branches. Furthermore, he says, it is lighter in tone than the material around it.
“These things being bright is extremely unusual for Mars. Wherever Mars’ surface is disturbed, it is always dark. Yet this disturbance is bright. That means there is something associated with this flow that caused it to be brighter. So I have advocated that this is frost that is forming as that water comes out, meets the cold air, and reprecipitates,” he said.
I just hope it isn’t something like a slide caused by some manner of tectonic/geologic activity.
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