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Mars Express Finds Supersaturated Water Vapor in Mars' Atmosphere
Daily Tech ^ | October 10, 2011 | Tiffany Kaiser

Posted on 10/10/2011 4:38:18 PM PDT by decimon

Mars Express was able to accomplish what so many other spacecraft have tried and failed by using a SPICAM(2) spectrometer

The search for water on Mars has been ongoing for quite some time now, with Mars rovers like NASA's Spirit and Opportunity being two examples of those who have found clues that point to a once-tropical past on the dusty red planet billions of years ago.

Now, the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has discovered that Mars' atmosphere holds water vapor in a supersaturated state.

Mars Express was able to accomplish what so many other spacecraft have tried and failed by using a SPICAM(2) spectrometer. While other spacecraft have used tools that concentrate only on surface data, which only analyzes the horizontal component of the Martian atmosphere, SPICAM(2) utilizes solar occultation to observe the vertical component of the atmosphere, which is critical for understanding Mars' hydrological cycle. Solar occultation studies light from the Sun in Martian atmosphere during sunrise and sunset.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; impact; mars; notsogreatflood; originoftheoceans; tethysocean

1 posted on 10/10/2011 4:38:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Wasser matter ping.


2 posted on 10/10/2011 4:39:18 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

vas is los?


3 posted on 10/10/2011 4:48:43 PM PDT by brivette
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To: decimon

vas is los?


4 posted on 10/10/2011 4:49:02 PM PDT by brivette
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To: decimon

John Carter ping!


5 posted on 10/10/2011 4:49:58 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: brivette
vas is los?

No, Vas is still in his cage.

6 posted on 10/10/2011 4:53:06 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I wish I could find it now, but years back when this search started, there was a cartoon showing a Mars Lander sticking its probe into one of those ice boxes you see outside a 7-11, transmitting “Eureka! Ice!” - while mom and pop Martian were sitting on the porch of their country store looking at the device with a WTH look on their face.


7 posted on 10/10/2011 5:07:21 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Oatka
I wish I could find it now, but years back when this search started, there was a cartoon showing a Mars Lander sticking its probe into one of those ice boxes you see outside a 7-11, transmitting “Eureka! Ice!” - while mom and pop Martian were sitting on the porch of their country store looking at the device with a WTH look on their face.

Well, they haven't found any Martians yet but there's still time. Maybe they're underground.

8 posted on 10/10/2011 5:10:35 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
Well, they haven't found any Martians yet but there's still time. Maybe they're underground.

Some just came up. The latest pic from the Rover:

9 posted on 10/10/2011 5:58:09 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersaturation

Examples — Carbonated water is a supersaturated solution of carbon dioxide gas in water. At the elevated pressure in the bottle, more carbon dioxide can dissolve in water than at atmospheric pressure. At atmospheric pressure, the carbon dioxide gas escapes very slowly from the supersaturated liquid.

[iow, this is more evidence that the water on Mars arrives from space.]


10 posted on 10/10/2011 6:38:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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11 posted on 10/10/2011 6:42:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Thanks decimon.




12 posted on 10/10/2011 6:44:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: brivette

Es ist der Ding vas ist los.


13 posted on 10/10/2011 8:12:28 PM PDT by pankot
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To: SunkenCiv
the water on Mars arrives from space...

As in, a certain amount of space dust is ice (thus, arriving continuously) or just in the form of comets that strike once in a zillion years?

14 posted on 10/10/2011 10:34:26 PM PDT by marron
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In a book Impact Earth: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids: The Growing Threat by Austen Atkinson, I seem to remember reading that we get a regular rain of ice here on earth from comet dust and space debris. Unfortunately, the book does not have a very good Index so I couldn’t find the info. on how many tons a year are added to our water supply.


15 posted on 10/11/2011 10:04:56 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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Comet’s water ‘like that of Earth’s oceans’
BBC | October 5, 2011 | Jason Palmer
Posted on 10/05/2011 6:41:44 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2788555/posts


16 posted on 10/12/2011 4:13:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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