This image shows a digital terrain model of the crater investigated by the University of Arizona's Ali Bramson. Image released August 26, 2015.
Posted on 09/12/2015 6:19:00 AM PDT by lbryce
This image shows a digital terrain model of the crater investigated by the University of Arizona's Ali Bramson. Image released August 26, 2015.
A giant slab of ice as big as California and Texas combined lurks just beneath the surface of Mars between its equator and north pole, researchers say.
This ice may be the result of snowfall tens of millions of years ago on Mars, scientists added.
Mars is now dry and cold, but lots of evidence suggests that rivers, lakes and seas once covered the planet. Scientists have discovered life virtually wherever there is liquid water on Earth, leading some researchers to believe that life might have evolved on Mars when it was wet, and that life could be there even now, hidden in subterranean aquifers. [Photos: The Search for Life on Mars]
The amount of water on Mars has shifted dramatically over the eons because of the Red Planet's unstable obliquity — the degree to which the planet tilts on its axis of rotation. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a large moon to keep it from wobbling, and so the direction its axis points wanders in a chaotic, unpredictable manner, regularly leading to ice ages.
Although researchers have long known that vast amounts of ice lie trapped in high latitudes around the Martian poles, scientists have recently begun to discover that ice also is hidden in mid-latitudes, and even at low latitudes around the Martian equator.
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Having water on an extraterrestrial world or moon is a fantastic and wonderful bounty. First,you've got water to drink (If it proves to have no contaminants ) Secondly, you can perform electrolysis on the water and break it it down to its basic compounds, which by a great coincidence is really, really useful and fundamental to life living on a planet like Mars or Earth's moon.
By breaking down water, you get hydrogen (for energy) and oxygen!(for breathing). A few years back before the Great Orifice deemed the moon off limits to Americans because there were no Muslims in the space Agency, and NASA was pushing real hard for a lunar colony, satellites and other instruments, Eureka!,"discovered" that water existed in the depths of moon craters.
Now that was so cool but even cooler it was perfect, too perfect. If you were trying to convince the government to establish a manned lunar colony the first thing you 're going to do is to lowball the cost of building and maintaining it and having found water on the moon made the proposed lunar colony cheaper than the real cost butt still a lot more than the almost for free lunar colony NASA was going to sell Congress on. But then, this guy from Kenya Bee-Esssed everyone to became president, spent twenty years worshipping in a church, Not God bless America, but God Damm America, (He said that? I never, ever heard him say anything like that and besides I like to sleep late on Sundays and he must have said it before I snuck in.)turned out to be a Muslim, who despite having a moon on most of their Islamic icons, didn't like the moon (for Muslims) and so we never did hear about finding water on the moon ever again.
Now, there's a bunch of folks trying to get to Mars but their plan is only to go one way which still leaves with a problem of getting to go that one way.
Even in their original plan the folks at Mars One were trying to pull a fast one on NASA saying that using their rocket transportation, NASA would get priority on the project. Blah, Blah, Blah.
So now, we've got the same water "ticket" to Mars and the best thing is Bammy can't necessarily say no because it's not really a government project. Okay. Let's wait and see what else they "discover".
Before you go, make sure you’ve got plenty of Martini glasses for your ice.
I’m no scientist, but if there is underground water, that holds open the possibility that there may be a temperate zone underground with heat from a molten core where there may be some liquid water, with a remote chance of some rudimentary life forms.
Not anything I’d want us to spend a trillion dollars or so to find out, mind you.
Understood and agree, but you do know don’t you that’s what the purpose of all these revelations are now. Seeking trillions in research and manned mission efforts. Trillions we simply do not have.
Thanks lbryce, extra to APoD.
Maybe they can terraform it like in the movies and send all the libtards there including Al Gore. THEN see if he starts up his global climate change bs. He’ll be so lost.
The EPA has declared it a “waterway” and thus under the jurisdiction of Obama.
You got me thinking that Muslim colonists on Mars would only have a limited area of the planet where they could face Mecca for prayers.
Good one!
What makes it believable is how common water is in the solar system. Comets are chock full of the stuff.
Obviously you’re someone that doesn’t pay attention.
Klaatu warned us about keeping our problems here on Earth and not taking our problems to the rest of the universe.
Now you want to send our biggest problem, liberalism, out to infect the rest of the universe.
Think man think.
You start sending liberals to other planets and Gort will turn this world into a burned out cinder.
Need geologists with rock hammers and hand lenses.
“Understood and agree, but you do know don’t you that’s what the purpose of all these revelations are now. Seeking trillions in research and manned mission efforts. Trillions we simply do not have.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Very true, but I could see a day when we could have a joint venture with other countries, sharing the burden, to develop spartan, unmanned probes every few years and continue to push the envelope in this direction. I don’t think that will bust anyone’s budget.
God has made a virtually infinite and infinitely interesting universe. The more we explore His creation, the more we find out about Him.
Dry ice? Carbon Dioxide?
*** “You got me thinking that Muslim colonists on Mars would only have a limited area of the planet where they could face Mecca for prayers” ***
They’d cut each others heads off. “There can be only ONE”
I'm not from Missouri, but "Show Me!".
So Mars has a high beam?
Thanks lbryce. I share your skepticism.from the FRchives, going back to 2002 or so:
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