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Posted on 05/15/2023 8:38:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rivers on Mars Ping!....................
And there’s still nothing there to support human life.
Gee look at that! That would be a grand place to send a few woke astronauts to die…..
Kinda like Democrat-run cities!.....................
Btt!!
I told you! I told you! Man-caused climate change is destroying Mars!
suv’s aND lawnmowers musta dried em all up
And Gas ranges...............................
What happened to all of the water?
Is Mars an ancient object lesson like that meme about the Sahara?
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
~ Milton Friedman
Three new underground lakes have been detected near the south pole of Mars.
Scientists also confirmed the existence of a fourth lake - the presence of which was hinted at in 2018.
Liquid water is vital for biology, so the finding will be of interest to researchers studying the potential for life elsewhere in the Solar System.
But the lakes are also thought to be extremely salty, which could pose challenges to the survival of any microbial life forms.
Billions of years ago, water flowed in rivers and pooled in lakes on the Martian surface. But Mars has since lost much of its atmosphere, which means water can't stay liquid for long on the surface today.
However, it's a different matter underground.
Referring to the sub-surface lakes, co-author Dr Roberto Orosei, from Italy's National Institute of Astrophysics in Bologna, told BBC News: "It's even more likely that these bodies of water existed in the past.
"Of course, the implication of this is that you would have a habitat or something that resembles a habitat... that lasted throughout the history of the planet,"
"As Mars was undergoing its climatic catastrophe and turning from a relatively warm planet - though it's not clear how warm - to a frozen waste, there was a place where life could adapt and survive."
The latest discovery was made using data from a radar instrument on the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since December 2003.
Sand Trout....................
I’m ready to go so I can get off this rock full of crazies.
Is there any rough figure on when the last time was that surface water existed?
lol dang forgot those evil ranges
From that angle, it looks like it lies on the outer edge of an asteroid impact. :^) Thanks Red Badger. Hmm. Looks like the Mars keyword has almost 3000 topics. Ouch.
Selections from the keyword, sorted, grouped:
Water/ice selections from the keyword, sorted:
For an interesting theory on how most of Mars' atmosphere was lost, read "Worlds in Collision" by Emanuel Velikovsky, published in 1950.
After impacts from space, water vapor is produced from soil ices, which provides a temporary microclimate and atmosphere of water vapor, making it possible for liquid water to flow.
This accounts for that from-nowhere-to-nowhere erosion patterns.
With the increase in surveillance of the Martian surface (from orbit and from the surface) this will be observed at some point as it's happening.
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