Author Topic: Water on Mars (Read 647 times)

Duedel · « **on:** January 23, 2004, 05:59:45 AM »

seams that there was water on Mars. Great picture:

SunTracker · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2004, 06:20:44 AM »

I bet within 20 years that probes will find evidence of past life on mars. And I bet it will be of DNA origin. Most likely microbes and bacteria.

airguard · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2004, 06:56:33 AM »

Intresting stuff, wonder what happend with the water and why i froze/dissapeared.
It for sure must have been floating long time ago.

Dowding · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2004, 07:01:41 AM »

Water at one of the ice capped poles - it's not really news, and has long been suspected. But I guess it's nice to have the confirmation.

SunTracker · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2004, 07:15:16 AM »

One hypothesis is that mars lost its atmosphere when it lost its magnetic field. Solar radiation somehow destroyed the atmosphere.

Dowding · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2004, 07:25:16 AM »

Mars has a magnetic field, but it is localized rather than global.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2004, 07:42:48 AM »

um wouldn't it be more accurate to say that there is liquid on Mars or once was on Mars - might not have been old H2O though....

LWACE · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2004, 12:35:24 PM »

My guess is with Earth already getting over populated, not near fully but getting, in the next 5-600 years when were all gone and done etc, they will figure out someway to revive mars or
something and make it so people can live on it.

Then we'll have all the same watermelon on there we got here, we'll see a mcdonalds with a sign out front, "First Mcdonalds On Mars!" and lil Ronald will be out there shaking lil Green mens hands good stuff.

midnight Target · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2004, 12:36:25 PM »

Great job Europeans!! You have officially moved into the 80's.

214thCavalier · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2004, 12:58:51 PM »

Oh wait you mean good ole Nasa already had that photo as evidence in the 80's ?

Could you kindly link me to it please.

ra · « **Reply #10 on:** January 23, 2004, 01:15:10 PM »

Nice pic, but how does it prove water?

Duedel · « **Reply #11 on:** January 23, 2004, 01:18:17 PM »

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Originally posted by ra
Nice pic, but how does it prove water?

Take a look here ra. Very interesting site:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/index.html

Dowding · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2004, 03:39:51 PM »

I thought it wasn't water course features we had found (these had been long since suggested), but had actually detected water in one of the polar caps. That's the discovery.

midnight Target · « **Reply #13 on:** January 23, 2004, 07:13:10 PM »

My bad... welcome to the 70's

Mariner 9, May 1971

Chairboy · « **Reply #14 on:** January 23, 2004, 07:30:53 PM »

Sorry Midnight target, but this is definately news. We may have photographed that land and those valleys with the Viking orbiters, but the high resolution spectrometer on the european craft has apprarently picked up water traces, and we definately did NOT know about that.

Cool stuff.