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Topic: Breaking: Mars Has ~ ~~ "Flowing" ~~~ Water - H2o
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david_mancuso
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Breaking: Mars Has Water - H2o
(CBS) WASHINGTON NASA is expected to make a major announcement Wednesday regarding a "significant find" on Mars.
NASA said the finding was a result of the Mars Global Surveyor mission.
According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, the space agency will talk about the discovery of "flowing water" on the surface of the Red Planet.
A NASA news conference is scheduled for 10 am US/Pacific.
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liL Ray
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water = life.
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Ack Ack ACK Ack ACK ACK!!!
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Men are from Mars...(the older I get the more I believe this ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) )
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Piotr Rasputin
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Men are from Mars...(the older I get the more I believe this )
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Flowing water? Preposterous, theres not enough atmospheric pressure to maintain liquid water on Mars. Substantiation of 'past' water when there 'was' an atmosphere is prolly the 'big news'. However, we've known there must have been water on mars for a while now, theres water or liquid erosion evidence in the topography.
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this is very interesting.......BTW welcome back...... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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likewater
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Originally posted by david_mancuso:
Breaking: Mars Has Water - H2o
(CBS) WASHINGTON NASA is expected to make a major announcement Wednesday regarding a "significant find" on Mars.
NASA said the finding was a result of the Mars Global Surveyor mission.
According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, the space agency will talk about the discovery of "flowing water" on the surface of the Red Planet.
A NASA news conference is scheduled for 10 am US/Pacific.
Water..I knew this already, this information was on the Discovery channel, they did a special on Mars called Life on Mars a while ago, like in the summer, the govement is on their way, You know they are sending probs up there checking as we speak.. the one thats up there is taking all sorts of pictures and the other one is diging for underground life.. ![[cheers]](graemlins/beerchug.gif)
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Nevermind what's on Mars....How bout studying what's in the ghettohoods of Amerikka?
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Moksha
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Mars Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Water
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By REUTERS
Published: December 6, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Images taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists wondering if the Red Planet ever has harbored life.
The orbiting U.S. spacecraft allowed scientists to detect changes in the walls of two Martian craters that may have been caused by the recent flow of water, a team of researchers said in a paper appearing on Wednesday in the journal Science.
Scientists previously had established that two forms of water -- ice at the poles and water vapor -- exist on Mars, but liquid water is crucial to nurture life.
The scientists compared images of the Martian surface taken seven years apart and found the existence of 20 newly formed craters caused by impact from space debris as well as the evidence suggesting liquid water trickling down crater walls.
"These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said in a statement.
The paper said water seemed to have flowed down two gullies in the past few years, even though liquid water cannot remain long on the planet's frigid, nearly airless surface because it would rapidly freeze or evaporate. This seemed to support the notion that liquid water may exist close enough to the planet's surface in some places that it can seep out from time to time.
The scientists proposed that water could remain in liquid form long enough on the surface to transport debris downslope before freezing. The two bright new deposits are each several hundred meters or yards long.
They cited a possible alternative explanation that these features were caused by movement of dry dust down a slope.
Scientists long have wondered whether life ever existed on Mars. Liquid water is an important part of the equation. On Earth, all forms of life require water to survive.
Among the planets in our solar system, only Earth has a more hospitable climate than Mars, and some scientists suspect Mars once sheltered primitive, bacteria-like organisms.
Previous missions found evidence that the Red Planet at one time boasted ample quantities of water, and the question is whether liquid water is still present.
"As with many discoveries, the possibility that liquid water may be coming to the surface of Mars today poses many questions," the scientists wrote. "Where is the water coming from? How is it being maintained in liquid form given the present and most likely past environments? How widespread is the water?"
They also wondered whether the water could be used as a resource for future missions to explore Mars.
The two sites are inside craters in the Terra Sirenum and the Centauri Montes regions of southern Mars.
"The shapes of these deposits are what you would expect to see if the material were carried by flowing water," added Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, lead author of the paper. "They have finger-like branches at the downhill end and easily diverted around small obstacles."
The researchers first reported the discovery of the gullies in 2000, but this is the first time they have revealed the presence of newly deposited material seemingly carried by liquid water.
Last month, NASA said the Mars Global Surveyor mission appeared to be at an end, saying it had lost contact after a decade-long mission in which it mapped the surface of Mars, tracked its climate and searched for evidence of water.
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likewater
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series of troughs and layered mesas in the Gorgonum Chaos region of the Martian southern hemisphere appears in the chaotic terrain. Gullies proposed to have been formed by seeping ground water emanate from a specific layer near the tops of trough walls, particularly on south-facing slopes. Such a layer is called an aquifer, and this one appears to be present less than a few hundred meters (few hundred yards) beneath the surface in this region. This image was taken by the Mars Global Surveyor camera on January 22, 2000
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Fletch
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water = life.
If you were given a glass, would you drink it?
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david_mancuso
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Originally posted by david_mancuso:
Breaking: Mars Has Water - H2o
(CBS) WASHINGTON NASA is expected to make a major announcement Wednesday regarding a "significant find" on Mars.
NASA said the finding was a result of the Mars Global Surveyor mission.
According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, the space agency will talk about the discovery of "flowing water" on the surface of the Red Planet.
A NASA news conference is scheduled for 10 am US/Pacific.
Water..I knew this already, this information was on the Discovery channel, they did a special on Mars called Life on Mars a while ago, like in the summer, the govement is on their way, You know they are sending probs up there checking as we speak.. the one thats up there is taking all sorts of pictures and the other one is diging for underground life..
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liL Ray
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water = life.
If you were given a glass, would you drink it?
I'd put scotch in it and then drink it.
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david_mancuso
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...but then again it (announcement) might be just probably more stuff about water. Maybe bacteria fossils if we're lucky.
Remember, these are science nerds. They find subsurface ice better than sex.
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likewater
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Originally posted by david_mancuso:
Breaking: Mars Has Water - H2o
(CBS) WASHINGTON NASA is expected to make a major announcement Wednesday regarding a "significant find" on Mars.
NASA said the finding was a result of the Mars Global Surveyor mission.
According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, the space agency will talk about the discovery of "flowing water" on the surface of the Red Planet.
A NASA news conference is scheduled for 10 am US/Pacific.
Water..I knew this already, this information was on the Discovery channel, they did a special on Mars called Life on Mars a while ago, like in the summer, the govement is on their way, You know they are sending probs up there checking as we speak.. the one thats up there is taking all sorts of pictures and the other one is diging for underground life..
likewater
they are trying to figuar out how to make Air ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) .. So Who's going to mars?? once they destroy this planet like they are doing the earth.. I think the next planet they want to explore is Neptune..
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to sum up: the big news is the change in thinking from that of liquid water on Mars billions of years ago, to liquid water on Mars today
"an active, dynamic planet"
I guess we can un pin this Mars thread.
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Men are from Mars...(the older I get the more I believe this )
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Men are from Mars...(the older I get the more I believe this )
....and where are you from?
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