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Mars Express Begins Search for Water on Mars
H_Fisher writes "The BBC reports that the Mars Express spacecraft team is ready to deploy a radar antenna to search for traces of water and ice beneath the Martian surface. The deployment has been delayed for a year due to concerns that the unfurled antenna might damage the spaceship. Mission controllers are optimistic; perhaps the ESA will be the next to make an important discovery about the red planet?"
A friend of mine is a planetary geologist that has been working with data from this probe since it reached Mars. He's reasonably convinced that Mars has had active hydrology in the recent past geologically-speaking, so from what I gather he'd be really, really surprised if they found no water at all.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I wonder how long it will take before the bacteria riding aboard the various spacecraft we send to Mars begin to spread all over the planet?
If we then "discover" bacteria on Mars, imagine the excitement, and the loss. The loss of our chance to truly know if it was there already. The loss will go unnoticed, though, as anyone broaching the question will be lumped with the Creationists, an object of scorn.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
NASA has been coloring the pics to hide the GREEN seen on Mars...
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http://www.themarsrecords.com/mars_red_planet_col
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/colors.htm
I wouldn't laugh about the cost of bottled water. I know of an Australian dairy farmer who was getting ~32c/L for milk and later found a natural spring on his farm and was able to get ~50c/L for the water....Without having to get up at 4am :p.