Here is a true color image of a Martian morning. Note the clouds and sky color.
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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You may want to watch this presser...
Thanks, Dog! This briefly caught my eye in the scan of the threads this a.m., but it didn't sink in...
It's hostile. We're talking average temps more than 100 degrees below zero, poisonous (carbon dioxide) atmosphere, and atmospheric pressure that is a tiny fraction of that on Earth. Also, it's a desert.
Nah. I don't smoke. I just have a good imagination. And why not? The fact is that astronomers have identified petrochemicals in outer space using spectometry. Those weren't likely made thru biological processes.
Well, it's not Jamaica. But it's not Pluto or Venus either. Probably at least a hundred life forms on Earth that would find Mars to be paradise.
Well yeah, Boston is like that, but what about mars?
That is true, but unfortunately, one of them isn't us. I don't see why it would be so bad to do a little planetary engineering. We can get rid of some of the potentially killer asteroids by ramming them into Mars. Ram them head on into Phobos or Diemos, and the whole ball of wax will go spiraling down onto the planet. There's nothing there to break. No fragile ecosystem. No people. No cities.
It'll give us some practice moving asteroids around and at the same time make Mars a better place to live.
The real scientists that Bell and Noory have on always seem to be briefed to treat all the callers as if they are intelligent and are asking intelligent questions about possible things. The exchanges can be pretty ludicrous.
Surface temp on Mars can vary from -133 degrees C to +25 degrees C. If it's really H20, that means it's ice some or most of the time.
http://sciencepark.etacude.com/astronomy/mars.php
Well, there's never been a good explanation about how the rover solar panels kept putting out juice and didn't get covered with dust.
Must be all them Martian types with squeegees.
We better send them some quarters pretty soon or the gig is up!!
"Well, there's never been a good explanation about how the rover solar panels kept putting out juice and didn't get covered with dust."
I don't know, the theory that the high winds sweep the panels clean works for me.
They've found where the other sock goes.
Sooo RA are you one of the SOME PEOPLE? Admit it, the vette was a gift to buy your silence, right? ;)
They discovered that Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids?
lol
They found Hillary's heart?
They've finally found a buried Shadow vessel. Who gets to be the sacrificial human?
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