Water on Mars

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• Random Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise

  February 2005

  Read about that yesterday. Neat :D purple
• JackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>

  February 2005

  So Total Recall was correct... ;)
  
  "Start the Reactor! Free Mars!"
  
  :p
• sleepy_shadow Ranger

  February 2005

  If needed, it could become a handy source of hydrogen (for producing energy via fusion, or simply distributing fuel) and oxygen (for creatures who need to breathe, among those humans).
  
  Even before... it will be a most interesting object for study.
  
  Ice can preserve things from previous times, like atmospheric composition. A frozen sea is likely to reveal... what conditions were like *when* it froze.
• croxis I am the walrus

  February 2005

  And, if the rate of frezzing is fast enough, any organic material would be preserved
• Biggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>

  February 2005

  Time to hire Bruce Willis.
• Messiah Failed Experiment

  February 2005

  Nono, Arnold.
  
  And, coolness..
• croxis I am the walrus

  February 2005

  Methane has been found in higher concentrations in the same area, suggesting the possibility of existing life:
  
  [url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050222_mars_ice.html[/url]
• JackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>

  February 2005

  [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
  [B]Methane has been found in higher concentrations in the same area, suggesting the possibility of existing life:
  
  [url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050222_mars_ice.html[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]
  
  2-5 million years ago eh?
  
  about the same time Yellowstone was blowing gaping holes in the snake river plain.
  
  :p
• Messiah Failed Experiment

  February 2005

  So, I guess the possibilities of manned missions to Mars just got a helluva lot bigger eh?
• bobo (A monkey)

  February 2005

  [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
  [B]2-5 million years ago eh?
  
  about the same time Yellowstone was blowing gaping holes in the snake river plain.
  
  :p [/B][/QUOTE]
  
  Could an uber-volcano like Yellowstone eject material with an escape velocity from earth? and could said material arrive at Mars? and could said material possibly contain microorganisms?
• JackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>

  February 2005

  [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by bobo [/i]
  [B]Could an uber-volcano like Yellowstone eject material with an escape velocity from earth? and could said material arrive at Mars? and could said material possibly contain microorganisms? [/B][/QUOTE]
  
  You know, I've thought about that a few times myself. I'm not sure if a volcano could do it (maybe Yellowstone or Toba), but I was thinking about some of the larger historical impacts Like Chixulub or Bedout.
  
  A lot of things would have to go right for the survival of the microbes. First during the ejection, second during the trip in space, third at the impact on Mars.
  
  The actual rock making it from Earth to Mars is the easy part.
  
  :)
• PJH The Lovely Thing

  February 2005

  Cool.
  
  - PJH
• croxis I am the walrus

  February 2005

  One must consider the probability of the rock actually hitting mars. My big issue is that we are so trained to disbelieve that life could exist elsewear we reduce or eliminate the possibility that life actually did arise on mars (or anywhere else).