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Ice Lake on Mars
DecoDragon writes "The ESA's Mars Express discovered an ice lake on Mars. The ESA has a number of images and an explanation of what was found. The lake was found in an unnamed crater. The report says it can't be carbon dioxide, because carbon dioxide ice had already disappeared from the northern polar cap at the time the image was taken." Coverage from the BBC also available. From the article: "The team has also been able to detect faint traces of water ice along the rim of the crater and on the crater walls. Mars is covered with deep gorges, apparently carved out by rivers and glaciers, although most of the water vanished millions of years ago. "
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How big do you want to make it!? Good thing they are on a phat pipe or
Have you metaroderated recently?
Here's the photo: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
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Excerpt taken from a chat session between ESA and NASA lead engineers: NASA: "Our Mars Rovers are both still going strong, moving at over an inch per day, and finding all sorts of great new types of reddish sand. I could possible arrange to send you some sam-" ESA: "WATER!! YEAH BABY!! WE pWnEd j0000!!! MWA AHHAHAHAHAH!!"
Romance advice authors have found evidence of men on Mars. No word on Venus.
Sustainable colonies are now possible, now that you won't have to deal with the expense of the colonists returning to Earth every winter to get in some ice fishing.
Where were you when the voynix came?
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I'm curious about how long everyone thinks it will take before people are able to live on Mars. Now that we're pretty sure there's water there, it isn't a far stretch to believe that the planet is more than capable of supporting human life.
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Except for, you know...the sub zero temperatures and the lack of oxygen and all...
OK, taking entries now for when the rover will drop through the ice during the Spring thaw. Please format entries to indicate specific time, day, month and eon.
Now that we know there's ice there, we can tell the Canadians and they'll get a hockey team up there ASAP.
That is all.
I for one welcome our, um... Aquatic martian overlords?
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the double lock will keep;
May no brick through the window break,
And, no one rob me till I awake.
Well, I guess we know on which side of the tracks you live!
No, just sustainable hockey and curling leagues.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Yeah because ice is impossible to melt. But maybe one day we will develope some sort of heat technology.
Fools, that ain't water! Don't they know an dab of Oxy5 when they see it? Poor Mars is covering up a zit and you got it on camera....he won't be happy now. NASA get photoshoppin' on those pics before Mars finds out! He'll be kickin' them rovers off it's surface!
Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity sit on the Martian regolith listening to the news.
They look at each other, then, after a beat, say, in unison, "ROAD TRIP!"
On Earth, where there be water, there be life.
And where there be water, there be pirates. Yarrrr!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I see you've found the sliding roof of my Martian lair!
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This would almost certainly involve infrared radiation. We certainly don't want to get involved with radiation: it is deadly and it will turn us into mutants! Besides, I don't think you will want to transform this frozen lake with heat. This process typically produces a lethal substance known as dihydrogen monoxide
Where were you when the voynix came?
Meanwhile, the Canadian Space Agency today released an artist's rendition of their new planned Mars Explorer Vehicle.
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They also announced that the expedition will be fully underwritten by the Canadian Hockey League.
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Are you proposing some sort of "heating machine"?
Are you kidding? With 200,000 troops, a herd of inspectors and millions of pissed off disaffected Iraqi citizens we couldn't find WMD in a country less than the size of Texas.
Those rocket scientist kids are doing okay.
Maybe we should have sent them into the desert.
Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
Duh. Haven't you seen Total Recall? It also means there's a giant alien nuclear reactor just primed and waiting to heat up all that ice and make air for the entire planet.
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Get it fast before rates rise and the bubble bursts....
As an added bonus - you can ice skate all year round!
I mark my axes every time I kill an Orc.
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Well at least I see that there is more than one lake in the northern hemisphere. Well, really what I saw is a lot smaller than this one. I would call it a pond. But what amazed me is that it showed that water could really keep for some time in open air (or more correctly "near open air"??). Moreover, the pond was getting water from a spring over the hill behind it. Considering this, I think there should be more places where water could gather.
:)
BTW, If I well remember, the borders of the pound showed some gradation suggesting it was drying up. And,and and if I really didn't mess anything, the pond was mostly covered by a wall. But it was not a crater. Probably a subduction as the shape was more similar to an ellypse over an highland. Yes, and what most critics may bash me was that the pond was in small highland. Yes pressure should a lot less there. But it was there...
But please don't ask me for a proof. As I told once around here. I lost that frame. I hardly tried to pick it back but it was searching in a haystack as all my data went limbo back them. It is on one of MGS frames before Summer 2000. I worked with the original frames or with those processed by Malin's labs.
Besides I am not here claiming first discoveries. Just leaving a note. Maybe someone finds it or catches something more interesting. Like underground rivers or something else
At last! From my point of view, this fact alone justifies all historical and future budget expenditures. I am pleased to see that my congressional reps are finally falling into line with my needs.
when the picture is on the screen because when you open it up again it will scare the shit out of you because it looks like a giant eye.
Since it's a lake, why not name it after Fredo?
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
SPACE HOCKEY! The time is NOW!
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well it were done quickly... MacBeth
The NHL has already proven there is no such thing as a sustainable hockey league.
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I can just imagine what the property development advert would read like:
Live on Mars!
This exclusive development of luxury apartments designed by an award wining architect is set to become reality. Each apartment is located in its own biodome with a 360 panoramic view of the martian surface. Access to communal area is provided by a underground tunnel which also doubles as storage space.
Other features include an private 10 kilometre wide ice lake with privacy guaranteed by a 17 kilometre crater ridge approximately 2 kilometres high.
Prices range from 1 billion to 10 billion dollars. For further information and a brochure contact your local Century 25 agent. Hurry, these properties won't be on the market for long!
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
Not quite yet, but it does make exploration a lot easier. The water can be used to make rocket fuel, air to breathe, hydrogen or methane for fuel, irrigate crops, flush toilets and drink.
Could you please put "drink" on the list before "flush toilets"? Thanks.