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Mars Red-Faced Without Water ("casts doubt on whether the surface is really billions of years old")
CEH ^ | September 21, 2009

Posted on 09/22/2009 1:49:10 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Sept 21, 2009 — The Martians are singing How dry I am. Scientists have a new explanation for how Mars turned red without water...

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1 posted on 09/22/2009 1:49:11 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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Ping!


3 posted on 09/22/2009 1:50:41 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: oldskuulconserv

It means their civilization is a lot younger than we thought!


4 posted on 09/22/2009 1:51:53 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Mars needs Visene?


5 posted on 09/22/2009 1:54:24 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: GodGunsGuts

It’s all because of universal warming.


6 posted on 09/22/2009 1:57:16 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: GodGunsGuts
"It's thirsty, run!"


7 posted on 09/22/2009 2:00:53 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
("casts doubt on whether the surface is really billions of years old")

Do you even read your own articles before posting??

Even they didn't even attempt to claim that

8 posted on 09/22/2009 2:01:21 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1

That’s a direct quote. Did you read the whole thing???


9 posted on 09/22/2009 2:04:57 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

So instead of billions, they are thinking Millions of years old, according to the article. Not very YECy...


10 posted on 09/22/2009 2:34:33 PM PDT by Paradox (ObamaCare = Logan's Run ; There is no Sanctuary!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

The argument seems to be that if it only takes a short while for the dust to turn red, if the dust is red it must mean it just happened a short while ago. Is that the way you read it? So if it only takes a day for my wall paint to dry, if my paint is dry it means I must have painted yesterday?


11 posted on 09/22/2009 3:26:52 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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Why is Mars red?
by Hazel Muir
New Scientist
4 September 2003
"There is something of a paradox about Mars," agrees Joshua Bandfield of Arizona State University in Tempe. His team recently showed that the planet has no large deposits of carbonates, which should have formed if giant pools of water had persisted on the surface. Bandfield suggests that liquid water must have occasionally burst out of the ground, carving channels and gullies, but that it quickly froze again in the frigid Martian climate.
Martian soil may contain detrimental substance
by Alicia Chang
August 05, 2008
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could make it less friendly to potential life than once believed... preliminary results from a second lab test found perchlorate, a highly oxidizing salt, that would create a harsh environment... On Earth, perchlorate is a natural and manmade contaminant sometimes found in soil and groundwater. It is the main ingredient in solid rocket fuel and can be found in fireworks, pyrotechnics and other explosives... The first test determined the soil was slightly alkaline and contained nutrients such as magnesium, sodium, potassium and chloride necessary for living things. The second test found the highly reactive perchlorate.
Life on Mars? "Missing Mineral" Find Boosts Chances
by Victoria Jaggard
National Geographic News
December 19, 2008
New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show areas fo Mars where magnesium carbonate is exposed in 3.6-billion-year-old bedrock in Mars's Nili Fossae region.

Carbonate minerals contain carbon and oxygen and need liquid water to form. Common carbonates on Earth include limestone and chalk.

Previous missions had seen small percentages of carbonates in Martian dust. More recently the Mars Phoenix Lander found the minerals in the planet's arctic soils.

But until now, evidence for the source of these carbonates in Martian bedrock had been elusive, supporting theories that even if Mars once had bodies of water, they were too acidic to support life as we know it.

"Carbonate, like the baking soda in your refrigerator, dissolves quickly when exposed to acid," said study leader and Brown University professor Bethany Ehlmann yesterday at an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

"So the fact that ... carbonate is still present means that the waters flowing through [Nili Fossae] must not have been acid" and could therefore have been conducive to life.

12 posted on 09/22/2009 5:48:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA’s Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving. “Not all water is fit to drink,” said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover science team who is a biologist at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass... “At first, we focused on acidity, because the environment would have been very acidic,” Knoll said. “Now, we also appreciate the high salinity of the water when it left behind the minerals Opportunity found. This tightens the noose on the possibility of life.” Conditions may have been more hospitable earlier, with water less briny, but later conditions at Meridiani and elsewhere on the surface of Mars appear to have been less hospitable, Knoll said. “Life at the Martian surface would have been very challenging for the last 4 billion years. The best hopes for a story of life on Mars are at environments we haven’t studied yet — older ones, subsurface ones,” he said. NASA’s current rovers and orbiters at Mars pursue the agency’s “follow the water” theme for Mars exploration. They decipher the roles and fate of water on a planet whose most striking difference from Earth is a scarcity of water. “Our next missions, Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory, mark a transition from water to habitability — assessing whether sites where there’s been water have had conditions suited to life,” said Charles Elachi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “Where conditions were habitable, later missions may look for evidence of life.”


13 posted on 09/22/2009 5:48:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
The argument seems to be that if it only takes a short while for the dust to turn red, if the dust is red it must mean it just happened a short while ago. Is that the way you read it? So if it only takes a day for my wall paint to dry, if my paint is dry it means I must have painted yesterday?

Could be, but not necessarily.

You're leaving out important information to make an informed decision.

If your wall is dry but bright and clean and free of marks, that could make it as fresh as yesterday...or somewhat longer. There's just not enough information.

But what if your wall was not only dry but chipping, peeling...and what if part of the wall is so old it's not even there...the wall itself has fallen over...???

14 posted on 09/22/2009 6:12:34 PM PDT by tpanther (Science was, is and will forever be a small subset of God's creation.)
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Mars Express probes the Red Planet’s most unusual deposits
ESA | November 1, 2007 | MARSIS Science Team
Posted on 11/05/2007 10:26:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1921241/posts

Almighty Smash Left Record Crater On Mars
New Scientist | 6-25-2008 | David Shiga
Posted on 06/25/2008 1:29:46 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2036366/posts

Did A Giant Impact Create The Two Faces Of Mars?
New Scientist | 3-15-2007 | David Shiga
Posted on 03/15/2007 2:14:24 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1801508/posts

Red planet’s hue due to meteors, not water
New Scientist | September 4 2003 | Hazel Muir
Posted on 12/21/2006 12:27:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1756678/posts

Red Planet’s Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 04/24/2005 11:18:25 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1390424/posts

So, where did the water on Mars come from?
The Toronto Star | 3/7/04 | Terence Dickinson
Posted on 03/07/2004 2:21:58 AM PST by LibWhacker
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New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars’ Moons
space.com | 29 Jul 03 | Leonard David
Posted on 07/29/2003 8:56:47 AM PDT by RightWhale
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/954539/posts

[and, I didn’t check this link]

Giant Impact Basins Trace the Ancient Equator of Mars
Jafar Arkani-Hamed
Earth and planetary sciences, McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.agu.org/pubs/pip/2004JE002343.pdf


15 posted on 09/22/2009 6:38:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks for the ping!


16 posted on 09/22/2009 8:03:54 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: tpanther
Could be, but not necessarily.

Exactly my point. Why should it be embarrassing for those who think Mars is billions of years old that it doesn't take long for dust to turn red? CEH doesn't offer any reason to think that once it turned red, it wouldn't stay red for, well, billions of years.

17 posted on 09/22/2009 8:26:58 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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