Water found on the red planet!?

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Maphusio

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News sources are saying it looks official. NASA has found water on the surface of Mars, just a few inches into the top soil.

There is a press conference scheduled for some time today. This is a HUGE find for humans and for those that are determined to colonize and transform the red planet into a habitable one for humans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission are reporting what they call compelling evidence that the robot craft has found ice while digging on the Martian surface.
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Small chunks of bright material described as the size of dice have disappeared from inside a trench where they were photographed by the craft earlier this week, NASA said in a statement late on Thursday.

This has convinced scientists the chunks were ice -- frozen water -- that vaporized after digging exposed it, NASA said.
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I'm excited for this press conference. Now the question is, assuming that was water, is this any indication of the quantity of it?

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2045326920080620
 
Maphusio said:
News sources are saying it looks official. NASA has found water on the surface of Mars, just a few inches into the top soil.

There is a press conference scheduled for some time today. This is a HUGE find for humans and for those that are determined to colonize and transform the red planet into a habitable one for humans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission are reporting what they call compelling evidence that the robot craft has found ice while digging on the Martian surface.
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Small chunks of bright material described as the size of dice have disappeared from inside a trench where they were photographed by the craft earlier this week, NASA said in a statement late on Thursday.

This has convinced scientists the chunks were ice -- frozen water -- that vaporized after digging exposed it, NASA said.
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I'm excited for this press conference. Now the question is, assuming that was water, is this any indication of the quantity of it?

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2045326920080620
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Now of they could also find sugar and yeast and we could have the first production of moonshine on the red planet. Nice find if you get to be one of the twenty people that will be sent to mars before I die in 70 years time. For the rest of us that will only be affected by this through the massive spendings that will be needed to send a ship of...meh.
 
Loxley said:
Now of they could also find sugar and yeast and we could have the first production of moonshine on the red planet. Nice find if you get to be one of the twenty people that will be sent to mars before I die in 70 years time. For the rest of us that will only be affected by this through the massive spendings that will be needed to send a ship of...meh.
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Hum, I think I comprehended part of what you were trying to convey. If I do understand you correctly then I beleive you to be mistaken. There is value in making things better for future generations. Not everything will have tangible benefits for you and myself.

Strive to improve the lot of others and you will find that in a significant way, you've improved your own. :wink:
 
Could mean life, which in turn could mean oil. Can you hear the gears turning in my head?
 
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Posh, the real off topic thread is Pluto a planet or a Plutoid?!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25274320/


Hydrocarbons on a planet don't interest me as much as water on a livable planet close to Earth. They have also found massive amounts of Titanium on our moon. Problem is, who is going to drill that out of there let alone a planet/moon way out there.
 
There is probably a crap load of oil and gold and diamonds and whatnot on other planets. The point was that this is Mars. It's close, there is water, possibly oil, and we're planning to land on it relatively soon.
 
Maphusio said:
Agreed, as oil would suggest life on a scale similar to Earth.
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There doesn't have to be any now. There could have been alot of living organisms there at some point. I'm not saying it's very likely, rather not, but it is possible. Oil does not disappear over time does it?
 
I've been toying around with this theory about Mars and water in my head. If you were to poor a bucket of water on a dirt surface here on earth you can see the paths water takes. You can see the channels that eventually get cut out from the constant water flow in that area.

Now think of that same bucket of water being poured onto the ground on Mars. The red planet has 1/3 the gravity of Earth. That water will flow much differently. The river beds, canals, lakes and oceans and paths would take longer to develop.

So if the above is true, if liquid would have taken longer to shape the face of Mars than it did on Earth, would this indicate that Mars was indeed wet for a longer period of time than currently theorized?

This in turn would suggest that the atmosphere there was quite stable maybe to the extent of being around for millions of years. All theory but, provocative for me.
 
Mars' atmosphere is too hostile to support any type of life more complex than microbes.

What I really want to see, is a sample of that water.

We need to carefully analyze it, not contaminate it with our own bacteria, and not fry any foreign bacteria with heat or whatnot.

In any case, it just reaffirms a theory that's been 40 years running.

Here's more evidence for the liking: http://live.psu.edu/story/31052

120,000 year old bacteria found in Greenland.
 
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