Posted on 09/24/2009 11:42:19 AM PDT by mgstarr
Researchers have caught Martian water ice in the midst of a triply amazing disappearing act. Why triply amazing? The ice was spotted amazingly close to the Red Planet's surface, and amazingly far away from the north pole. The third amazing thing about the observations, made using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science, is that the researchers knew it was 99 percent pure water ice because of how slowly it disappeared.
The findings should cheer up astrobiologists, who have said even a little trickle of liquid water might sustain life beneath Mars' forbidding surface. It should also cheer up would-be space explorers, who are already over the moon because of this week's reports that lunar ice deposits are more prevalent than previously thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
the demholes taxed it out of existence already..
NASA = intergalactic welfare and jobs program. They claim there is water on mars before every budget year.
It has been in decay since Von Braun died.
Oh I agree on that. My dad was involved in the space program through subcontracting work and knew Von Braun, Kraft, and Co.
Different agency then. Now they’re just a bunch of hack bureaucrats.
Today - NASA is like the post office. There are some engineers but mostly it is paper pushers.
As soon as they discover oil on the planet, we’ll go.
Perrier bottled it all...
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