Mars Rover Turns Up Evidence Of Water

New submitter horselight writes "Recent data obtained from Mars indicates the environment is not as hostile to life as once thought. 'An examination of data gathered by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveals deposits that, on Earth, are only created by water moving through the rock.' The study's lead author, Steve Squyres, said, 'From landing until just before reaching the Endeavour rim, Opportunity was driving over sandstone made of sulfate grains that had been deposited by water and later blown around by the wind. These gypsum veins tell us about water that flowed through the rocks at this exact spot. It's the strongest evidence for water that we've ever seen with Opportunity.' Gypsum veins and other features indicating water movement on the surface of Mars have been observed to be much more common than previously thought."

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Re:Pathetic

[Sqreater]

Exactly! Unless you're already there, it's totally pointless to go somewhere. Better off to just stay in your cave near the savannah. The rains are certain to return this year and no doubt the fruit trees and vegetables will return as well. Those others that moved off and started hunting animals? FOOLS!

Mars is not the Earth. You just don't understand that what you just wrote does not apply to Mars. This is the response I get constantly. Apparently, people just do not yet get that Mars is not an extension of the Earth and the ways we are used to expressing ourselves about the Earth do not apply to Mars. What savannahs? What animals? What anything?

You have to be kidding

[Sqreater]

What happened to you, that you're so warped as to call what would be man's greatest achievement pathetic. You seem to be a terribly small-minded person.

Robbing the mass of people scrambling to make a living in a declining economy to plant a flag on a desert orb borders on psychopathy. We had a like "achievement" planting a flag on the moon. Have we followed up with anything? No. Because it was an expensive, useless endeavor justified only by the cold war and nothing else.

Re:Does it have to be water, not some other liquid

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

I forget.... are 'yo mama' jokes modded up or down around here?