The 10th Anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 16, 2015 @06:45AM from the red-planet dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is celebrating 10 years of service in its mission to study Mars from orbit. Recently it has discovered an ancient lake that might hold the best possible chance of finding life on the Red Planet. "MRO has discovered that Mars' south polar cap holds enough buried carbon-dioxide ice to double the planet's current atmosphere if it warmed. It's caught avalanches and dust storms in action. The spacecraft's longevity has made it possible to study seasonal and longer-term changes over four Martian years," Rich Zurek from Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

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Re:Mars Life by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-16 07:38 · Score: 0, Funny

I think there could be areas of deep snow pack, with some covering warmer geological regions so that there would be lakes under thick snow domes. Similar to the lakes under the snow / ice in Antarctica.
LOL. Sure. Tell me where in Genesis it talks about God creating life on fucking Mars... Get fucking real.