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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That’s one source, but not the one I was looking for.
About 20 years ago, IIRC, some scientists got water to form a liquid-like substance they likened to molasses in January by freezing the water under extreme pressure, and it stayed that way after the pressure was removed, but slowly reverted to its normal state................
Sheila JackASS Lee (Democrat!)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
From Texas's 18th district
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
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We can conquer the Martians by just introducing them to fishin’.
Then they too will just stay out on the boat drunk all day!
EVERLOOSHUN IS TRUE!!!!!!!
Is there any other kind?
Yes. Several actually.
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Can we introduce killer whales, haddock, penguins, seals and polar bears. Who would have guessed that Eskimos have been training for life on mars for thousands of years?
Huh ... very weird behavior, for such a seemingly simple molecule. I suppose that means there are three distinct liquid phases of water.
Fire Water:
Yeah, I believe it’s about 6 miles south of where the mental giant thought it was. :^)
THE RED PLANET FOR THE REDS!
No, if it were the Mooch, we'd be able to see her pecker from here.
LOL. Be my guest. I can't imagine why anyone would leave our planet. This planet we live on is what God created for us. Living on Mars would be like living in Antarctica in the dark except you'd also suffocate while freezing to death.
Did Putin claim exclusive natural gas drilling rights yet?
You got a few responses! Most are along the lines of my first thought: there are three states of matter. My second thought: ice, water, cloud/steam/water-vapor. So perhaps there is only one kind of water, and it is liquid. If so, it may be redundant to say liquid water. But it is unambiguous, one might even say, clear.
Word games. The chemical H2O is a keystone regardless of its state. It’s chemistry, not popular usage.
Water is basic for humans. Water means that it can be easily broken down into O2 and H. The hydrogen can be used as rocket fuel, and the Oxygen for breathing.
It means that the weight used in a vehicle for fuel to go to Mars was just cut in half.
If you are interested in exploring our solar system, this is a BIG deal.
MSL images have shown smaller bodies of water, both standing and flowing.
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