Posted on 09/28/2015 8:53:15 AM PDT by lbryce
Right now, 140 million miles away, somewhere on the frigid surface of Mars, there is water forming. Scientists announced they have strong evidence that briny water flows on the planet, a critical step toward identifying possible life on Mars.
Water is essential to life as we know it, wrote Lujendra Ojha, Mary Beth Wilhelm, and their co-authors in a paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience. The presence of liquid water on Mars today has astrobiological, geologic and hydrologic implications and may affect future human exploration.
If this announcement, which NASA billed as major in the days leading up to it, sounds not altogether new, its because scientists have been obsessing over the water on Mars for decades. (The sight of ice volcanoes on Pluto this summer had scientists similarly elated.) Astrobiologists have long suspected that Mars was at least partially covered in water at one timemarkings on the planet indicate the presence of ancient streambeds. A billion years ago, scientists believe the planet may have had a roiling, primitive ocean.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Don’t forget your bathing suit
"This high-resolution color photo of the surface of Mars was taken by Viking Lander 2 at its Utopia Planitia landing site on May 18, 1979, and relayed to Earth by Orbiter 1 on June 7. It shows a thin coating of water ice on the rocks and soil. The time the frost appeared corresponds almost exactly with the buildup of frost one Martian year (23 Earth months) ago"
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00571
Well, with all the bacteria we have brought to Mars on our various probes, there is sure to be life there now.
I am so glad that in my lifetime I’ve lived to see extraordinary things happen in the heavens, planets, moon and stars.
As for bathing suits, we need a Mars Bikini Team.
This is a game changer for colonization.
With water, we can thrive.
Then again, there will never be substantial number of humans there.
Living on Mars will never be considered a “better life”.
Worse case scenario, there will be pockets for “better life” on Earth.
I hope no California snail darter is found or the water will be off limits
Scientists have dulled my neocortex with their lies.
Either Turn it off or send it to California.
ping
[With water, we can thrive.]
What is in the water?
“Living on Mars will never be considered a better life.”
Might want to rethink that if dems keep getting everything they desire without hinderance from the RINOs.
Since you can see Mars from Calif. Jerry Brown will declare the water the property of CA.
Water is essential to LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.” Key words since intergalactically, we don’t know squat.
Don’t forget an atmosphere!
Now how cool is this?
He was on Mars when it was first discovered.
“Water forming” is not the same as “water flowing.” I had water forming on the windshield of my car overnight last night, it was hardly a river.
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