Curiosity Finds Ancient Mars Likely Had More Oxygen and Was More Hospitable to Life

universetoday.com ^ | 07/01/2016 | ken kremer

[SubMareener]

Take a look at this image and tell me who or what is taking Curiosity's picture

[dhs12345]

It has one of those Obama selfie sticks.

[dhs12345]

And look at Venezuela now. Give it a couple more years and it will be barren of all life just like Mars because all of its inhabitants will be living here in the US.

[Rebel_Ace]

It took its own picture. What you are looking at is a composite image, made from many photos, and the are cleverly combined to remove the “arm” that the camera is mounted on.

[KarlInOhio]

A lot of selfies photoshopped together.

Animation of Curiosity Rover's Arm Movements for Taking a Self-Portrait

[exDemMom]

At one time in its past it was a warm, wet world lush with water and life.

Well, it had water. The life bit is a stretch.

[SubMareener]

Whew! Thanks! That explains it!

[butlerweave]

The Martians fought Global Warming and WON

[butlerweave]

It probably spent days sitting here and a ton of pictures were taken so photoshoping would be easy

[TomGuy]

Curiosity Finds Ancient Mars Likely Had More Oxygen and Was More Hospitable to Life

Then, the global climate change Liberals got control and fixed the climate.

Judge them by their intentions, not the results.

[schurmann]

” ‘But they want trillions of more space dollars to find that out and conclusively determine something which will make no difference whatsoever on the state of things on this planet.’

I couldn’t agree more. Best example - Space Shuttle program. Thirty years, billions of dollars and 14 dead astronauts later - nothing.”

gaffer and oh8eleven have missed the point.

The Space Shuttle’s formal title was Space Transportation System: functional equivalent of a dump truck or a bus. Or possibly a cargo ship, or an airliner. We don’t think of those as flashy or glamorous - they do their jobs in support of other things. And when they wear out or become obsolete, we junk them, typically with less fanfare than NASA, when it sent Endeavour on its nationwide piggyback tour in September 2012.

No one complains about the monies spent operating a dump truck fleet or an airline. At least, Freepers ought not - unless they find value in siding with the moralizers of the whiny Left, who struggle endlessly to spend those “spare billions” on wealth transfer programs. Like SNAP, or Pell grants, or public housing: all those amazing social innovations, every one of them fully grounded in solid science, that return so many tangible benefits.

[zek157]

It had to have had a magnetic field at some time in the past to have an atmosphere. The molten core may have cooled to the point that the field died alomg with the planet?

[samtheman]

A friend of mine who used to work on monitoring Soviet/Russian nukes said that the ISS was a make-work program for Soviet/Russian scientists, giving them something less threatening to work on. He wasn’t justifying the ISS, just saying what he thought was the thinking in our government over the years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

from 03/01/2004:

• NASA to Announce 'Significant Findings' of Water on Mars Tuesday!

04/06/2004:

• Clue to water on Mars may be an illusion

12/21/2006:

• Red planet's hue due to meteors, not water

So, people involved started looking for something else instead.

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[oh8eleven]

... and oh8eleven have missed the point.
BS. I don't care what you call it or what you say it's supposed purpose was. I say again ... thirty years, billions of dollars and 14 dead astronauts later - nothing. Indefensible.

[samtheman]

One theory is that Mars lost its magnetic field, so the atmosphere was eventually stripped away by solar radiation.

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Solar wind.

No molten iron core, no magnetic field, no protection from solar wind, which is mostly charged particles.

Solar wind is like sand paper on upper atmospheres of unprotected planets.

We are blessed to have a molten iron core.

[oh8eleven]

the ISS was a make-work program for Soviet/Russian scientists
ISS is another good example of WASTED taxpayer dollars. A "joint" venture with the Russkies that we paid for, and since 1998 what have we gotten in return? Not a damned thing.
Most Mars missions are the same thing. How many multi-zillion-dollar rovers do we need to discover - nothing?

[samtheman]

I agree.

[nevergore]

Global warming by those pesky Martians.....

[tumblindice]

"My baby is red-hot." "Your baby ain't doodly squat."