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How does frost prove that live exists?
Originally posted by SonicInfinity
To comment on the topic at hand, the piece of data that interests me the most is the frost. If that picture is real, then that proves without a shadow of a doubt that life exists on Mars, whether it be advanced or not.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Originally posted by Neiby
On Mars, everything would seem to have more red and less blue in it.
Feel free to adjust the colors so that everything appears as it would on Earth, but just remember what you're doing. That isn't actually how things would look on Mars.
So why does Mars have to look red? One explanation is that the planet's soil is rich in iron oxide, but there's much debate as to why the mineral is so ubiquitous in the Martian environment.
That said, why does the sky have a reddish tinge? Probably due to dust storms? Whatever the reasons I've trotted out, take a look at the screen behind the speakers at a symposium at JPL after the Rover's success. Check out the colors in one of the first pics taken by it on Mars. And what you see below this is NASA's current version of the same image!
Courtesy: curiousconspiracy
So what's up with NASA? Why are they screwing around with the pictures? Because they want to show Mars as a desolate red desert-scape devoid of any moisture and therefore any probability of life! Q.E.D.
[edit on 5-4-2008 by mikesingh]
Originally posted by rikriley
If NASA presents photos looking like the planet is breathable plus habitable we could have an all out race by other countries on Earth for Mars and that is the last thing they want.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Frost does not need any living creature to exist, they are completely independent things.
Originally posted by ArMaP
PS: I also find it a bit strange so many stars for so few posts, maybe this is a conspiracy to promote this specific thread.
And how do you know that this is frozen water and not CO2, like NASA says?
Originally posted by SonicInfinity
But in every other place where we have found water, we have found life. This could be an exception, but the odds point to there being life.
Originally posted by Essan
Evidence of life on Mars is not proof of life on Mars.
During clear periods (L s 0–180°) the seasonal and diurnal variations in water-ice cloud occurrence could be mapped using the 11 μm IRTM band. Clouds tended to occur over the Tharsis region and the region between 0 and 60°W near the equator, and to evolve from dispersed hazes to more localized hazes during the day. As northern summer progressed during the Viking period, the northern clouds transitioned from a diffuse haze to a more concentrated zone of clouds in the equatorial region with a well-defined northern boundary.
Data from the SPICAM Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer indicated that any high altitude clouds are not very thick and made up of much smaller particles, but the CO2 clouds detected by OMEGA are very different. Not only are they surprisingly high - more than 80 km above the surface - but they can be several hundred kilometres across. They are also much thicker than expected. Instead of looking like the wispy ice clouds seen on Earth, they resemble tall convectional clouds that grow as the result of rising columns of warm air.
. The surface of Mars may often become warmer than 17 degrees. Other data returned by Mars Global Surveyor shows the temperatures can be 30 degrees F (~0C) or more.