Comments on the Gale Crater and Sharp Mountain of Mars

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This sharp mountain was a meteorite or a portion of some destroyed planet in the past, then it came from the outer space and settled on Mars, like many other mountains of Earth, Mars and the rest of the planets and moons.
So when it settled down on Mars surface, it caused a surrounding area to depress and other peripheral regions to be uplifted to be the rim round about this mountain.
As such were formed most of the Earth mountains.

http://quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_2.htm#Mountains

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A comment of the temperature on Mars surface

Not all the surface of Mars is frozen; some parts of Mars like the equatorial regions may be hot or temperate.

Therefore, don't surprise to find the temperature on the arm of Curiosity warmer than expected because of a presumptive information that the temperature on the entire surface of Mars is freezing.

But the truth is not like this; no, it is temperate in some parts and hot in others like on Earth.

The reason for the hot and temperate temperature on some regions of Mars:

1- Mars has a different axis inclination than that of Earth, and this will moderated the temperature on Mars surface.

2- the day of Mars is longer than the day of Earth and this will give more exposure to the sun rays and sun heat, then it will not lose it so rapidly at night but will retain some of that heat.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
" Curiosity skipped arm testing on Sol 31 (Sept. 6) after controllers held back on new commanding due to a caution about a temperature reading on the arm."

The indication of that not all the surface of Mars is freezing:
1- The ice is restricted to the two poles and to the tops of some high mountains.
2- the other processes like cloud formation and dust storms are like those on earth.

http://quran-ayat.com/universe/new_p...Is_Successful_