NASA finds water flowed recently on Mars

CTV News via Sympatico MSN ^ | 06/12/2006 2:39:42 PM | CTV.ca News Staff

[FYREDEUS]

"liquid water that is present on Mars right now"

Wow.

Prospects for life on Mars [either its own or ours if we choose to live there] are looking up...

[Fierce Allegiance]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749373/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749378/posts

Two other related threads, fyi.

(Not Post-Copping, just providing info)

[bruinbirdman]

Well, I called that shot.

NASA, facing cuts in funding, always either finds water or life on Mars.

yitbos

[ichabod1]

Isn't this kind of like, uh... big?

[RobRoy]

Sure, but are there any "fossil" fuels?

[brivette]

What's post copping?

[Egon]

Mars was a paradise until Global Warming.

The time-travel technology doesn't exist right now, but I'm reasonably certain that we evil humans will have gone back in time and destroyed that planet too.

The NY Times has already run an expose on it in the future. Their five remaining readers will be clones of your great-grandfather.

...and now I have a headache.

[RightWhale]

Isn't this kind of like, uh... big?

IMHO, this is old news. The particular rivulet is fresh, but water on Mars has been confirmed for years.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Being like the posting police. Some people seeem to love bashing posters for posting duplicate threads. That's not my game. If I know of related stories, i like to link them for more infomation, or related discussion.

[mountainlyons]

Nasa has water on the brain and it is costing us $B.

[Fighting Irish]

Isn't this kind of like, uh... big?

Well....there are certain implications that comes along with finding water...

[RightWhale]

The Mars base will need water. Water was already proven years ago, so this announcement isn't as big as some think it is.

[OSHA]

Photos at different wavelength show possible source.

[Sopater]

That pictures looks to me like an animal was walking along from the lower left-hand corner of the screen, stopped to urinate, and then continued on it's way. Definitely a sign of life on Mars.

[Sopater]

Oops, I meant "right-hand" side of the screen...

[pobodys nerfect]

This may be a stupid question, but how do they now it was water, and not, say, running sulphuric acid?

[pobodys nerfect]

now=know. Sorry

[RightWhale]

how do they now it was water, and not, say, running sulphuric acid?

Spectral signs. Also, melting point, boiling point, viscosity.

On another note, would discovery of life on Mars be disquieting to islamists?

[Yo-Yo]

This was "discovered" six years ago.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/press-water.html

[pobodys nerfect]

Thanks!