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Originally posted by rikriley the 2 legged duster devils that run around on the surface.
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by mikesingh
* OR there's a manned NASA base on Mars with a maintenance crew that gets those Rovers cleaned regularly!
I'm gonna go with this one...
There was a video floating around that showed a NASA mission control screen and a person got caught in the images from Mars... I have been trying to dig up anything on that incident... I'll let you know when I get something...
Originally posted by zorgon
Now I know ArMaP is not quite ready to jump on the "secret astronaut" band wagon... but as his work shows even he has found something 'not quite right' on these images. LOL one day I will find that one image that works... Then I will fly to Portugal and buy him a beer (or whatever poison he prefers )
If you find that image I will gladly accept a beer, although I do not like it.
Originally posted by zorgon
LOL one day I will find that one image that works... Then I will fly to Portugal and buy him a beer (or whatever poison he prefers )
Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:51pm EST.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday.
The glaciers, the biggest known deposits of water on Mars outside of its poles, could prove useful for future manned missions to the red planet as drinking water or rocket fuel, University of Texas planetary geologist John Holt said.
"If we were to, down the road, establish a base there, you'd want to park near a big source of water because you can do anything with it," Holt said.
Scientists previously determined that large deposits of ice exist at the Martian north and south polar regions, but hundreds of these buried glaciers are located at mid-latitudes on the planet.
The discovery of "radar properties entirely consistent with massive water ice" needs some physical confirmation, but I guess we can consider it as good as if they had a sample.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Now those who were insisting that whatever is on Mars isn't H2O ice but CO2 ice will now need to reconsider their beliefs! This is big! Water ice hundreds of square km wide not only at the poles, but even at mid latitudes!!
Not so fast, water ice means only that, water ice, there is no "undeniable fact" about anything else.
Now if there's water ice under the surface, then it points to the undeniable fact that there is life on Mars!!
Originally posted by ArMaP
Originally posted by mikesingh
Not so fast, water ice means only that, water ice, there is no "undeniable fact" about anything else.
Now if there's water ice under the surface, then it points to the undeniable fact that there is life on Mars!!
Patience, Mikesingh, patience.
Abstract
The objective of the Phoenix Mars mission is to determine if Mars' polar region can support life. Since liquid water is a basic ingredient for life, as we know, an important goal of the mission is to determine if liquid water exists at the landing site. It is believed that a layer of martian soil preserves ice by forming a barrier against sublimation, but that exposed ice sublimates without the formation of the liquid phase.
Here we show physical and thermodynamical evidence that besides ice, liquid saline-water exists in areas disturbed by the Phoenix lander. Moreover, we show that the thermodynamics of freezing/thaw cycles ranging from diurnal to climatic time-scales leads to the formation of saline solutions with freezing temperatures much higher than current summer ground temperatures where surface ice is believed to exist near the surface. Thus, we hypothesize that liquid saline-water is common on Mars. This discovery has important implications for the stability of water, weathering, glaciology, mineralogy, geochemistry and the habitability of Mars.
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