Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars

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Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars

Posted by michael on Friday January 23, 2004 @02:49AM from the scotch-and-soda dept.

jki writes "So, finally: Through the initial mapping of the South polar cap on 18 January, OMEGA, the combined camera and infrared spectrometer, has already revealed the presence of water ice and carbon dioxide ice. This information was confirmed by the PFS, a new high-resolution spectrometer of unprecedented accuracy. The first PFS data also show that the carbon oxide distribution is different in the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars. The MaRS instrument, a sophisticated radio transmitter and receiver, emitted a first signal successfully on 21 January that was received on Earth through a 70- metre antenna in Australia after it was reflected and scattered from the surface of Mars. This new measurement technique allows the detection of the chemical composition of the Mars atmosphere, ionosphere and surface." On another note, NASA has gotten some sort of signal from Spirit, but it's still not fully functional.

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-23 02:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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PFS by use_compress · 2004-01-23 02:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Sounds too close to Person First Shooter for my comfort.
Feared, no. Respected, possibly... by Gordonjcp · 2004-01-23 03:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But damn, your Halal burgers are tasty. And those little sticky pastry things, ooooh... We love Muslims!
Spirit finds traces of Rain Water! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-23 03:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There was an image of Spirit finding some traces of water, the water is believed to be originated from rain.

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Re:Feared, no. Respected, possibly... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-23 03:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Good poetry, too. Too bad about the loud extremist minority, that must be very embarassing for them, having to go around saying "No, really, most of us are sane!" I suppose all religions have them, but few religions have so many so willing to blow themselves up. The Christian dolts mostly just make fools of themselves on television, saying God has told them who will win the next presidential election, stuff like that.
Re:Feared, no. Respected, possibly... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-23 03:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Good poetry, too. Too bad about the loud extremist minority, that must be very embarassing for them, having to go around saying "No, really, most of us are sane!" "

Too bad the majority doesn't actually do that. Most of the "moderate" Islamic organizations, like CAIR, are more concerned with shouting down people who bad mouth terrorists than with mad mouthing the terrorists, themselves.
Rats... by BookRead · 2004-01-23 04:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Same thing happened with my car. Rats got in and chewed up the wires to the fuel injectors. Mars is full of them, I tell you. Send the exterminators!
To my mother, my dog, and clowns by Nadsat · 2004-01-23 04:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling "No" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on Amerika's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?

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