![](http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1074732659022_2004/01/25/25n_mars.jpg)
The Mars Express captured this image, suggesting the existence of water-ice, from 273 kilometres above Mars. Picture: AFP
1 posted on
01/24/2004 12:32:58 PM PST by
ambrose
To: Phil V.
ping
2 posted on
01/24/2004 12:38:04 PM PST by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: ambrose
Is there water in that picture or not? Who says channels are formed by water, as opposed to lava, hot gas, etc?
To: ambrose
The presence of water ice simplifies the establishment of a base. Once you get your water-treatment skid up and running you don't have to worry about hauling nearly so much from earth. That translates into smaller ships, or ships whose cargo capacity can be used for other tools and supplies.
4 posted on
01/24/2004 12:39:50 PM PST by
marron
To: ambrose
If Mars used to have a bunch of water and it is now gone ... what happened? Were there a bunch of Republicans up there driving around in SUVs that caused this? Oh, the humanity .....
5 posted on
01/24/2004 1:11:35 PM PST by
gnawbone
To: ambrose
"If life on Mars theory holds water, what does it mean?"
We will be subjected to another decades worth of bad headline puns
9 posted on
01/24/2004 3:07:42 PM PST by
adam_az
(Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
To: ambrose
Abrose, taking a look on ESA's website and info on that picture it is not clear that that is nothing more a color rendition of depth from their 3D cameras, much like a colorcoded topomap. I doubt very much the greens and blues are from water or chlorophyll. Either would be assayable from spectrographic data available to the satellite instrumentation. That kind of result has not been claimed by ESU in any of their reports, and certainly would be news of the first magnitude if it were the case.
That particular picture is a computer reconstuction of height derived from their 3D cameras from an overhead view. The color may just range red, yellow, green, blue from high to low relative altitude, * luminosity of the original picture.
To: ambrose
To: ambrose
This can mean only one thing.
![](http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/muze/dvd/161832.jpg)
20 posted on
01/26/2004 8:24:39 AM PST by
<1/1,000,000th%
(Someone else would've done it eventually.)
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