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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.

wow

Cool, does it come in bottled form?

Wake me when they find beer.

HEH!

Or a Coke!

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.

Dark Falcon wrote:Or a Coke!

Dark Falcon, is that a joke?

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

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

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

"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.

lol komp

[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

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I do do them thanks