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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. "
You didn't answer the question. The *water* "vanished millions of years ago". How do they know it wasn't 1000 years ago or for that matter 10 years ago?
So where did you snag this gem from? First off, like NASA can't plan ahead for a freaking launch window. You act like hitting the launch window that would allow for travel to and from mars would be a miracle. It's hilarious, almost like when the landers just happened to head to Mars at the time it was closest to earth in line 100 years. News agencies reported as if this was some kind of happy coincidence, not like people have been plotting planetary movement into the past and future for hundreds of years (thousands in some cases, but we're a bit more accurate these days). I like the quote near the end:
snip...Currently the Russian Mir space station is one place where astronauts can stay for extended periods of time, and research into these effect is ongoing...snip...it will probably be necessary to construct a larger space station to be used as a staging ground for the mission to Mars....snip
Love to know how they're doing continuing research on MIR. Or that the construction of a larger station is just an idea... not like we have people staying on one. Nice job, try reading all the stolen text first, maybe bringing it a little more up-to-date than just tacking a line about shuttle debris on the front. By the way, shit *always* fell off the shuttle. If we look for that problem we're going to find it, but someone ranted about this recently here so I'll skip the discussion.