Evidence of Water Found on Mars

[Agent Phrank]

NASA Confirms Signs of Water Flowing on Mars, Possible Niches for Life

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Background info:​

Liquid water is considered one of the essential ingredients for life, and its presence raises the question of whether Mars, which appears so dry and barren, could possess niches of habitability for microbial Martians.

This is tremendously exciting,” James L. Green, the director of NASA’s planetary science division, said during a news conference on Monday. “We haven’t been able to answer the question, ‘Does life exist beyond Earth?’ But following the water is a critical element of that. We now have, I think, great opportunities in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that.”

Liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars, according to researchers who say the discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life.

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Streaks:

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Mar's Geohistory:​

Although Mars had rivers, lakes and maybe even an ocean a few billion years ago, the modern moisture is modest — small patches of damp soil, not pools of standing water.

“That’s a direct detection of water in the form of hydration of salts,” said Alfred S. McEwen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona, the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and one of the authors of the new paper. “There pretty much has to have been liquid water recently present to produce the hydrated salt.”

By “recently,” Dr. McEwen said he meant “days, something of that order.”

Scientists have long known that large amounts of water remain — but frozen solid in the polar ice caps. There have been fleeting hints of recent liquid water, like fresh-looking gullies, but none have proved convincing.

Future plans for Nasa:​

In selecting the landing site for the 2020 rover, the space agency is ruling out places that might be habitable, including those with recurring slope lineae.
That prohibition may continue even though two candidate streaks have been identified on the mountain in Gale Crater that NASA’s Curiosity rover is now exploring, a mile or two from its planned path.

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They are treated as special regions that NASA’s current robotic explorers are barred from because the rovers were not thoroughly sterilized, and NASA worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars.

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knows how this is going to end.

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[Chibiusa]

Water on Mars but these *****s still thirsty

 

[Commander Axe]

Water on Mars but these *****s still thirsty

Hoes can be thirsty in a poland spring factory fam

 

[Multiply]

Read this a few hours ago. Gonna make a similar thread :lol.

 

[GinkgoLeaf Girl]

I saw this on the news earlier (this being one of the happier/more positive stories I've heard all day). It is very exciting!

 

[LordRaikage]

bunch of Astronauts drink the water and mars, first they seem fine but when go back to their partners the water had undetectable martian baby cockroach eggs. These Eggs then Grew in their Partners body both male and female

End Result:

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It's a BOY!

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[Wabbit]

If they find evidence of life on Mars because of water in Mars does it mean that wherever there is water in the universe there we can expect life to be evolved similar to earth?

Water on Mars but these *****s still thirsty

It is salty water. It makes you more thirsty. With Mars temperature, liquid water cant flow there.

 

[Lytes]

Interesting

 

[Ciao]

But will nasa ever find intelligent life on NarutoBase?

 

[LordRaikage]

But will nasa ever find intelligent life on NarutoBase?

Lmfao so funny.

i just hope when they go to mars everything is fine.

 

[paratise]

Just when i was reading Martian, this came up.

Honestly "water in Mars" became so much of a gag for last few decades -almost a dead gag in last few years- this news did not take attention as much as it should have been. Regardless it is something huge for human kind, in this century we will probably have our glass bubble settlements on Mars. Lets colonize there we f----ed up the planet earth long enough.

 

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Jih johu jih

 

[Natsu Shazneel]

I have lost hope in Mars. Aliens exist else where.

 

[Aim64C]

Just when i was reading Martian, this came up.

Honestly "water in Mars" became so much of a gag for last few decades -almost a dead gag in last few years- this news did not take attention as much as it should have been. Regardless it is something huge for human kind, in this century we will probably have our glass bubble settlements on Mars. Lets colonize there we f----ed up the planet earth long enough.

Cap and trade on carbon emissions pretty much excludes any launches to orbit from any reasonable budgets. Only politicians who control the regulations and can flat-out ignore them are going to be able to decide what is and isn't a valid use of your time.

That said, there's really nothing to be gained from colonizing Mars. Any colony there would essentially be primarily for research.

The resources necessary to produce a self-sustaining habitat on Mars would be a considerably greater investment than simply building a similar colony in a solar orbit.

Mars has neither the magnetic field nor the gravitational pull to sustain much in the way of hydrogen in the atmosphere (water). Terraforming it is pretty much out of the question - at least not without supplementing it with a hydrogen source and doing something about containing the hydrogen (at least in the long-term). Otherwise - solar winds tear the hydrogen away century by century.

Bubble-colonies would be better built in space - where they are not subject to erosion by the atmosphere and where things like emulated gravity can be controlled through engineering.