Get your ass to Mars.
Posted on 04/08/2015 2:47:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Radar images previously revealed thousands of buried glacier-like formations in the planet’s northern and southern hemispheres.
That data has now been incorporated into computer models of ice flow to determine the glaciers’ size and hence how much water they contain.
“We have looked at radar measurements spanning 10 years back in time to see how thick the ice is and how it behaves. A glacier is, after all, a big chunk of ice and it flows and gets a form that tells us something about how soft it is. We then compared this with how glaciers on Earth behave and from that we have been able to make models for the ice flow,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
Get your ass to Mars.
That was the guy he replaced.
Odd how that happens, isn't it?
I once read a book on body cycles, body time. The author claimed that it was determined, by experimentation, that the body clock of humans is a bit shy (or longer) than twenty-four hours, and it just happens to match the daily revolution of Mars.
Wait a minute. 24 hours is the daily revolving on earth
Insert Theremin music there......
Solves a big problem. Lots of water on Mars. And not just at the ice caps.
If I were king I would be pre-positioning life-support modules and supply containers on the surface or in orbit, with manned vessels following close behind. I would so like to see people living on or just under the surface, in my lifetime. They’d better hurry.
You'd need the width as well, to get the volume (length x width x depth)
Mars "day" (rotation on its axis) takes 24 hours, 39.5 min
HAH! Gordon Cooper answered that canard better than anyone so far. He had first-hand involvement with things not of this world and his answer was ‘Well, someone has done a pretty good job of it so far.’ The poopooing factor is a big part of a negative normalcy bias. You’re doing it right here on this thread, maybe without even realizing it. Ridicule of those who have seen things you wouldn’t believe exists is a powerful tool ... with a herd.
The Delta Smelt are saved!
Oh really? Wait till they find the Martian Smelt,
you haven’t see nothing yet.
How'd he do with Occam's Razor?
You think Gordon Cooper would lie to you? ... I have no need to converse with you further.
Trust, but verify.
Ben, as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water in order to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
I was surprised to be told recently on a science program that most of the planets being discovered are circling dwarf suns with only a fraction the power of our sun. Thus they have to be much closer to their sun in order to have life permitting temperatures.
20 out of the 30 stars nearest to Earth are red dwarfs
And you're right, planets will have to be close in.
When a planet orbits a star this closely, the gravitational pull of the star may cause the planet to become tidally locked with the same side always facing the star (similar to the Moon's fixed gaze on the Earth)..
We think alike. Multilayer inflatable greenhouses would probably be the way to go for the foreseeable, and those could be sent and deployed robotically. Even the planting of the grass could be done robotically. When the first permanent human populations start to arrive, they’d find a living habitat, and would build it out, inflatable dome by inflatable dome.
“Such a discovery will be the greatest achievement of mankind”
That only holds true for THIS civilization. Past ones have been there and done that. This civilization is kind’a sad to begin with ...
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