[kidd]

Disagree with the author

Water in a warmer region of Mars greatly simplifies our ability to send manned missions

[rsobin]

Liquid water on Mars might be a hard thing to catch up with. At zero degrees centigrade it’s ice. At 2 degrees centigrade it boils in the thin martian atmosphere.

[ETL]

Water in a warmer region of Mars greatly simplifies our ability to send manned missions

You mean we haven't landed a man on Mars yet??

Has anyone notified Congress?

Sheila Jackson 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.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

[Mean Daddy]

As long as the don’t build a desalinization plant....

[zeestephen]

Re: “Water in a warmer region of Mars greatly simplifies our ability to send manned missions.”

I read another article that might interest you.

The “water” in this story does not run freely, but moves slowly downward through the surface soil, which, presumably, is heated by solar radiation

The average daily temp is minus-10 F., and the atmospheric pressure is very low, so any significant extraction of liquid water on the surface will be really difficult.

And, the source of the water is still unknown.

Also, it is located only at high elevations, with very steep inclines, which would make human access quite difficult.

The discovery is interesting, but, as usual, NASA seems to have over hyped it.