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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Heeyyyy....
Watched the new show he was in with Terry Bradshaw and William Shatner.
The Fonz character is way different than the real guy!
ha! good one!
(who dat?)
BOOM!!
Absolutely, what’s a planet without beer?
Nestle will be wanting the bottling rights to it....
I didn’t think anyplace on Mars ever got warm enough for liquid water to exist.
WE care. We’re (humans) are going to colonize it some day and we want it to have what needs to make it habitable to US HUMANS—and our pets, livestock ,and other Earth life we want to be with us.
It is within the spirit of conservatism to explore, exploit and conquer new territories to optain life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Frozen, vapor, and with Scotch.
Very interesting! Thanks for posting that link.
It will be a brave man—or a fool—that dives into that sucker.
For the win
“Something is going on regarding mars”
The weight of the evidence seems to suggest as much. Read the Mark Carlotto books on the subject.
NASA’s pattern is to announce some major new discovery on Mars and it always turns out to be something “water discovered, possible to support life”. This is purely to generate headlines at budgeting time. Same old thing over and over again to which no one pays attention.
What NASA should do is send a probe and rover to the Cydonia region and take a close look at the “Face” and the region around it. Then many of us will take an interest.
Global Warming has spread to MARS???
Until now only Titan had lakes other than Earth.
We know Mars in its distant past had rivers because of gulley and river beds carved through the planets canyons.
So the presence of liquid wate is an exciting finding.
Interesting ... two distinct liquid phases.
It is within the spirit of conservatism to explore, exploit and conquer new territories to optain life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
This is so true however the scietists think they will figure out how to make life......will not happen.
Until science accepts God without seeing, great discoveries will not be made.
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