Posted on 12/05/2006 10:36:33 PM PST by edmond246
NASA hosts a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec. 6, to present new science results from the Mars Global Surveyor. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E Street, S.W. in Washington and carried live on NASA Television and www.nasa.gov
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I guess I sould have at least photoshopped the ground to look red ...
It would be fun to be astounded with new information.
Geez, we knew there had been water there for ages. Guess they had to prove it.
And yes, Richard was on Coast-to-Coast a bit tonight hyping how he knew it all along.
"I'd say this upstages the Iraq Study Group."
Marvin, you magnificent bastard!
they have found oil
I would be surprised if there weren't some water in the icecaps. If it's cold enough to freeze carbon dioxide, it's certainly cold enough to freeze water. In fact, maybe they found water vapor in the atmosphere.
That would definitely be a major find. But I doubt they have the equipment to do that.
Hoagland was on C2C earlier, and he said basically what I thought.
They seem to have found liquid water on the surface (maybe in some kind of geyser mode).
But it's always been said that Mars was just too cold for liquid water, so this would make them change the way they are thinking totally.
i really dont care they better built a pipe line and pump the sucker dry
well drier
If it's coming up in a geyser, then I guess it makes some sense. Subterranean water would not necessarily be the same temperature as the surface. Of course, it would likely either evaporate or freeze very quickly.
Personally, I think it's a waste to spend billions to see if microbial life exists on Mars. So what if it does? To me, that would not be all that surprising, nor would it be a very useful bit of information. I would be more interested in exploring exploitable resources.
Hoffa's Grave ?
Personally, I would not be surprised if there is oil up there. Maybe on comets. The idea that the oil down here is of purely biological origin just does not work for me. There is too much of it. My suspicion is that it was created in great clouds of gas that once surrounded the Sun.
So if this theory is right, then I would not be surprised if there is oil on Mars or even on the Moon. Of course, it would cost a fortune to get it to Earth.
If they found water that would be "fascinating". If it's still ice that would be "interesting". Water would be a sure sign of global warming on Mars. Probably caused by all those unmanned SUV's we've got roaming the planet.
Well, we've found Martian meteorites on Earth, it's almost a certainty that some Earth rocks made it to Mars.
And I thing about the first half dozen to dozen probes that we sent there didn't have extensive bacterial decontamination before they were launched, that's a relatively recent protocol.
We should terraform it. Send up some lichens, molds, mosquitoes and dumpster divers.
Before you know it, somebody would be selling condos.
What they need to do is the "nonenvironmental" thing. Ram a few comets and asteroids into it. Give it a little more gravity, a little more atmosphere, and a little more liquid.
I would start with Phobos and Diemos.
My suspicion is that it was created in great clouds of gas that once surrounded the Sun.
LOL! My suspicion is that theory was created in great clouds of smoke that once surrounded your head.
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