Water found on Mars!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:47 pm

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Expres ... WRD_0.html

17 March 2004
Thanks to ESAâ??s Mars Express, we now know that Mars has vast fields of perennial water ice, stretching out from the south pole of the Red Planet.

Sting_Ray · Post by **Sting_Ray** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:02 pm

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:20 pm

Cool, does it come in bottled form?

bash · Post by **bash** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:33 pm

Wake me when they find beer.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:21 pm

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:26 pm

Or a Coke!

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:37 am

hrm.. i just had a thought..

If there wasn't any life on Mars, there is now. There is bound to be micro agazinizms ... er single celled life critters, transported on the probes/rovers.

Just a thought. I'm sure they went to great extent to build this stuff in a "clean" or sterile environment, but I can't help wonder.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:38 am

Dark Falcon wrote:Or a Coke!

Dark Falcon, is that a joke?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:45 am

hmpf! Tycho Brahe was a scientist from Denmark that did Mars stuff... cool!

oOOOooooo.. time for some D2 !!!!!

KompresZor · Post by **KompresZor** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:12 am

Dark Falcon wrote:
Dark Falcon wrote:Or a Coke!
Dark Falcon, is that a joke?

Did you forget to log on as your alter-ego or do you just like asking yourself questions

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:50 pm

"Recent space missions then suggested that the southern ice cap, existing all year round, could be a mixture of water and carbon dioxide. But only with Mars Express have scientists been able to confirm directly for the first time that water ice is present at the south pole too."

So let me get this straight. The souther polar cap is basically made of seltzer water? That is a buttload of rootbeer.

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:37 pm

lol komp

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:38 pm

[NuB] Dedman wrote:So let me get this straight. The souther polar cap is basically made of seltzer water? That is a buttload of rootbeer.

lmao

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:02 pm

Duper - NASA are *very* confident the rovers were sterile. In fact they went to the most extraordinary lengths to ensure it.

The major concern with the Japanese Nozomi probe was that it might crash into Mars - it was intended as an orbiter and hence was NOT setrilised.

But you can rest easy - there's zero to nill chance that any microbes which *could* get to Mars would survive. The cold and radiation levels there are severe indeed.

My personal belief is that there IS life on Mars - buried under a few inches to a few miles of rock - living on internal heat from mars, and the surface stuff re-animating every few thousand years when the water in which its frozen melts and allows a brief period of activity.

My prediction is that this life will contain DNA, and it will look exactly like Earth Life - and be a major argument in support of Panspermia. Whether life originated on Earth having been transported from Mars, or whether both planets were simply seeded by the same bodies containing the same life forms is up for debate.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:24 pm

I always liked the meteor that was found and for some reason was declared it came from Mars ... WTF??? did it have a placque on it?? LOL (made in Mars)

Sting_Ray · Post by **Sting_Ray** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:42 pm

Illegal use of internet vernacular in a post, Duper... Minus 10 points.

Personally, I could care less if there is or was life on mars. Either way, I'll still be able to eat my corn flakes in the morning the same exact way as I always have. Not taking away the fact that it IS intriguing to hear about these studies and hypotheses... It just doesn't make a bit of difference in my life. But I do agree... if they find a heineken geiser on the red planet, book me on the next flight.

pipsqueak10 · Post by **pipsqueak10** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:51 pm

EUREKA! We've found..............water

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:48 pm

Sting_Ray wrote:But I do agree... if they find a heineken geiser on the red planet, book me on the next flight.

Thats on the north pole.

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:35 am

this is cool news

Sting_Ray wrote:Personally, I could care less if there is or was life on mars.

maybe the internet isn't for you.

Sting_Ray · Post by **Sting_Ray** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:11 pm

Maybe you're right. There's plenty of other things I'd rather be doing than wasting my time online.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:00 am

Sting_Ray wrote:Maybe you're right. There's plenty of other things I'd rather be doing than wasting my time online.

Then go do them.

Sting_Ray · Post by **Sting_Ray** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:37 pm

I do do them thanks