Slashdot Mirror
Martian Sea Discovered
mpesce writes "New Scientist is reporting that a large sea of frozen ice (between 800 and 900 km in size and 45 m deep) has been discovered by the ESA's Mars Express Probe. Here's the kicker: the sea of block ice is only five degrees away from the Martian equator. New Scientist also links to a PDF of a paper to be presented next month about the finding." Update: 02/21 15:30 GMT by T : Note: that's 45 meters deep, not 45 kilometers deep.
A large sea of frozen ice??
:)
As opposed to the other kinds of ice, like liquid ice or gaseous ice?
Here's your sign...
Awesome, though. I can't wait for us to terraform Mars, and start our new civilization there.
And eventually ruin that planet as well.
Check out the best P2P sharing website: MEDIACHEST.COM
Not like the kind we get here, then.
Will they find any frozen martians within ? hairy ones at that ?
"Sweet llamas of the Bahamas !"
... is a bewildered and gasping Arnold Schwarzenegger waiting for the nuclear heating coils to kick in.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
And it's 900km BY 800km, not BETWEEN the two, as another poster said.
And it's not actually near the Martian equator, but in Canada.
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
In other news, Michelle Kwan has announced she will be training for the 2006 Olympics on a secret "remote" location, devoid of paparazzi.
Insiders say she also aquired a new sponser, an undisclosed candy bar manufacturer..
...if we melt the water. And my tounge in cheek Mars Hydro website may well fortell a commercial future too? :-)
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
Now astronauts (or kosmonauts or taikonauts or whatever gets first over there) don't have to take ice with them if they want to have a whisky on the rocks.
Hmm... maybe I could start a first "bar galactica" and make tons by selling spacetourists stiff drinks at high rates.
"Joe, one lump of frozen ice in my drink if you please!"
How many Libraries of Congress squared is that? Or is the measurement more like LoC / VW because of the Martian moon rocks?
No, seriously. That's like really small right? Like 1/100ths of an inch?
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
He's just colonizing in the name of the Drexciyan Wavejumpers.
RIP James.
-mkb
Well, you see, the whole attraction of mars is that people can go there, terraform it, and then greenhouse the shit out of it and say "Well it was a barren waste land anyways".
Mars will be the Las Vegas of environmental concerns!
Hey, this is Slashdot. Since when do you expect accuracy?
;)
Slashdot: News for Nerds, Editors who don't Edit
The jury is still out as to whether it's really ice or not. Still, the possibility is enticing. Not only would it be a much needed resource for manned exploration, but it also would greatly increase the chances of life existing there.
I could just picture first detailed images of the sea coming back with a frozen martian with a slightly suprised look on its face frozen under the ice. :-)
Warning, comments may not have been passed by the sanity department of my brain.
Seen the movie Total Recall?
looks like someone needs to activate the martian oxygen maker thing.
Arnie Quotes
"Consider that a divorce!"
"Get your ass to Mars...get your ass to Mars..."
"MY NAME IS NOT QUAID!"
"If I'm not me, who da hell am I?"
"That's the best mindf___ yet."
Now, now, the submitter is probably an American, and we all know how easily they get confused when dealing with the metric system
*cough*climateorbiter*cough*
What I want to know is...just how big of a splash can I make on a planet that has less gravity of Earth.
Life is not for the lazy.
Its because they mistitled their list, due to not feeling that "top ten [science] things we got a hard-on for this year" had the required gravitas...
"No one would have believed in the first years of the 21st century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Martians' and yet as mortal as his own; that as Martians busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a Martian with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency Martians went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of Martian danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most Martian men fancied there might be other men upon planet three , perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this mars with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And to mars in the 21st century came the great disillusionment."
I wonder if Martians can ice skate? If so, perhaps we could import them here and have a hockey season. Imagine ESPN's ratings for the Mars Cup!
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
No, it's metres, not meters! :P
Uhh...is this American football or that other football that is kinda like soccer? Here we go again...another measurement system with international differences.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Shhhh...I got banned for a month for saying stuff like that.
Who came with that stupid idea to name a planet after candy bar, anyway? That's outrageous!
Since when were km french? You must mean your TheRestOfTheWorld-to-BackwardsAmericanWay cheat sheet. Notice how all science stuff is in metric, it makes more sense (Powers of ten).
- Area: Football Fields. Defined as 60x100 square yards, or 501.6 square meters. The European equivalent is the tennis court, which is 668.9 square meters.
- Volume: Volkswagen Beetle. Defined as 9.75 cubic metres.
- Information: Library of Congress. Defined as 10 terabytes.
- Length: One marathon. Defines as 42.5 km.
- Length: One hair. Defined as 100 microns.
- Currency: US National debt. Defined as 8 Trillion dollars.
HTH, HAND.So one imperial meter is the same as a metric millimeter. I gotta remember that...
Dude, you don't watch enough Survivor. Fire is life.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED:
A new hocky team is in town. Despite the ongoing lockout, the NHL has announced a new expansion franchise awarded to the Martian Terraformers.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
"According to TFA the depth is 45 METERS deep, not 45 KILOMETERS. ;)"
Just one more reeason to use the english system...
"Derp de derp."
"You're drunk with your tradition that has no validity I'm intoxicated with support for metrics come drink a decaliter with me we want metrics want want it now or we know we can't win I weigh 170 pounds that's 90 kilograms see metrics can even make you thin"
You know, your idiotic attempt to slam Bush would have been better if you spelles KETONES correctly.
I mean, how can you be an anti-Bushie if you can't get your facts straight?
Wait, that's the first requirement for anti-Bushie membership? Oops, sorry.
We can strip mine the rest later!
Best Slashdot Co
You forgot Newater, you insensitive clod!
Thanks for making that measurement entirely abstract and useless for us.
Some AC said: "I guess its just perspective but we're still very natural creations and therefore our actions are."
Wow, no matter how hard they try, some folk just don't get modern leftist enviro-terrorist dogma.
Don't ya see? Your not part of the natural order, your a human and therefor an obscenity. An unworthy being, not part of 'nature'. Anything you do is therefor 'unatural'.
Your only hope of salvation would be to , for example, bury nails in
forestry trees in the hope some forester is maimed
during his exploiting and unatural harvesting of mother natures wonderful bounty.
I was high on chocolate when I wrote this.
Something between the lines jumps out and bites your arm off. Soltan Gris / London
Is that the British Quadrillion or the American Quadrillion? - There is a difference.
See the Pictures of the Flood of '08
in soviet russia, ecology alters You!!
any such program for agitated copious breathing which required a partner would never, ever happen as long as the people came from Slashdot. ;-)
Sustainability and energy independence essay