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Posted on 07/25/2018 10:02:21 AM PDT by jazusamo
Scientists have uncovered a "a stable body of liquid water" on Mars, in what some are calling a "game changer" in the search for alien life.
What is believed to be liquid water is sitting below Mars' southern polar ice cap and is described as a "well-defined, 20-kilometer-wide zone." 20 kilometers is roughly 12.5 miles.
The findings, which are published in the journal Science, were made possibly by Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS), an instrument that resides on the Mars Express spacecraft. MARSIS surveyed Mars' Planum Australe region between May 2012 and December 2015 and utilized radar pulses, sending them through the surface and the polar ice caps, ultimately measuring how the radio waves came back.
The pulses that came back created the aforementioned "well-defined, 20-kilometer-wide zone" and found that the radar reflected the brightness of the liquid water. The study's abstract notes that it is surrounded by "much less reflective areas," a sign that it is indeed water.
The team that wrote the study, including lead author Professor Roberto Orosei, have ruled out any other causes for the brightness.
Speaking with the BBC, Orosei said it probably isn't "a very large lake," but added that this is a body of water and not runoff from a glacier or something else.
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sorry but you’re wrong
there IS intelligent life on Mars
very VERY intelligent, in fact
so intelligent that
the little green men ship out their species’ rejects to earth
(think: Obammy, Pelousy, McShame, the idiot in Ohio, madMax(ine) Waters.......)
We’ll never know for sure.
There is also solid water and gaseous water. You're familiar with all three forms. That's a statement of fact, not a question or speculation.
[[Orosei said it probably isn’t “a very large lake,” ]]
California immediately passes a law banning the use of water on mars between the hours of 6 am and 6 pm
There’s also a fourth state, but it’s kinda rare................
Headline:
“liquid water found on red planet”
Second paragraph:
“what is believed to be liquid water”
Did they find water or not? The headline brings you in and then they don’t know. Sounds like they need more grant money from us taxpayers.
Plasma?
Primordial Mars swamp teaming with all sirts of evolutionary cells and goo...
If you energize H2O sufficiently to form a plasma, I think it will decompose into H and O and cease to be water.
Or were you thinking of something else?
Lakefront Property on Mars! Buy now before the rush!
Just send Musk.
Is there a beach?
"There's no life on Mars. Now STAY AWAY FROM IT!"
We’re getting close to my dream. If we oxygenate the soil in the subtropical regions we can grow barley there, and hops in the equatorial regions. Then if the Martians turn out to be unicellular organisms who can metabolize complex carbohydrates, the jackpot! Mars: Planet Of Beer.
Too late.
A couple of years ago I got hooked on all those “weird stuff on mars” youtube videos. Some of it is silly. Some of it is not. Some was so fantastic I figured it was a hoax and went to the official Nasa photos to see what was really there, only to find out they were not hoaxes.
Something is going on regarding mars. I would not be surprised to find out there really was a civilization there at one time. I’m not saying I believe it now, but I would not be shocked, based on what I HAVE seen in those photos.
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