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Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water?
mhw25 writes "It is reported that the Mars rover Spirit is already well into its scientific mission, and may be detecting hints of water. The mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer has returned its first image, with probable evidence of carbonates and hydrated minerals. We may know more after the rover rolls off its landing base, after making a 120 degree turn to avoid the airbag blocking its front ramp, to start analyses on soil from Thursday or Friday. An ongoing intrigue is already developing - a scientist reckoned that some of the soil around the airbag 'looks like mud, but it can't be mud'."
Where there is water, there may also be a brewery. These Martians may be eons ahead of us..
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There is water on Mars. The ICE CAPS were first noticed about FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
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If there are martians, they're most certainly living underneath the unforgiving surface. I would love to see Rover snap a pic of someone peeking his head out from a hole in the ground.
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The rover may soon be the first to go mudbogging on Mars... So that is why Bush wants to go to Mars.
Water is believed to be a pre-requisite for life.
Well, that and a 1x4x9 ebon slab.
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Mars lander stuck in mud. News at 11
Prediction for when the rover finally starts to rove: The good news: It finds water. The bad news: It sinks and vanishes in the mud.
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it is clear that it is very different from any of the three previous Mars landing sites explored by Vikings 1 and 2 and Pathfinder. For example, those plains all had about 20 per cent of their surfaces covered with rocks. Around Spirit, the figure is just three per cent.
Looks like our previous visits have made them clean up for company.
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Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
But it will probably turn out to be a mirage.
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Oil that is, looks like mud but doesn't require water. First thing you know old Jed's a millionaire!
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So you're saying this "mud" may actually just be Martian rat urine?
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When you think about it, all mud is is wet dirt.
Big deal, mud on mars.. wake me up when the hot three-breasted mutant alien chicks are wrestling in it :)
Why not ask the prop guys?
I guess The Beagle got too excited on entry and wet all over the damn planet.
And I thought my dog could wizz for a long time...
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So you're saying this "mud" may actually just be Martian rat urine?
That doesn't make any sense, because if there's no water, then what are the Martian rats drinking in the first place? See, it's gotta be something else.
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if the rover rolls off the platform and becomes stuck in this "Mud"?
I'm guessing that it may be possible that there is thermal activity just under the surface of the landing site which is keeping the surface warm enough to have "mud" and possibly some sort of underground water deposit that is seeping through the ground in this area...
But I guess the NASA scientists are better at this than my arm-chair quarterback approach...
Then again, I can just see the press conference..."We found water on Mars"..."The rover got stuck in the mud"...
that's 264.8175 k (-8.3324999999996 C) for those that don't like their temperatures defined as :
0 F is the stabilized temperature when equal amounts of ice, water, and salt are mixed and 96 F is the temperature "when the thermometer is held in the mouth or under the armpit of a living man in good health."
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. . . I am very interested in eventually moving to Mars. It would be a bonus if there were lakes, so I could go ice fishing, but you can get the full "ice fishing experience" without them.
My real question, as someone who has camped outdoors in very cold temperatures, is this: could the combination of a shallow (half-meter) trench, a heavy-duty lean-to, and a heavy-duty sealed winter sleeping back (along with oxygen, of course) get one through the night?
Also, as Minnesotans are well-known for their masochistic, 'can-do' approach to weathering winter weather, are there any Minnesotans planned for the manned Mars mission?
That rules the probability of finding martians above 1m tall, else their head would freeze instantly.
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It's not mud! It's not mud! It's quicksa
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