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- Tddupre, on 07/31/2008, -1/+27http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterO ...
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -3/+27Little green men . . . now, that I''d love to see. Wouldn't the NASA boys lose their loads if they did find them.
- zohaibusman, on 07/31/2008, -2/+24So Mars is also going green
- floejoe, on 07/31/2008, -4/+18Water on Mars is NOT official as of this writing and we will not have that hypothesis disconfirmed for another half hour.
- lucy22, on 07/31/2008, -2/+15Well they better find life soon, or funding goes buh bye.
- em00guy, on 07/31/2008, -1/+13This is remarkable. The objective has now shifted to determining the possible habitability of the martian environment. I hope folks can distract themselves from the nascent political theater long enough to appreciate the historical and scientific relevance of this mission.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -1/+12NASA rocks!
- aolshove, on 07/31/2008, -0/+10Can't wait for my first refreshing glass of Martesian Spring Water... "It's out of this world!".
- SkippyDoorknob, on 07/31/2008, -0/+10Start...the.....reactorrr......
- TrevorBelmont, on 07/31/2008, -1/+11I'm no scientist but I'd be willing to wager that martian water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
- ApokalypseNow, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8We've long thought that those ice caps are not water ice, but dry ice.
- kraftj, on 07/31/2008, -1/+8No, they're nothing like The Onion...
- ritubpant, on 07/31/2008, -4/+11I knew it ......... I have a hunch that thare a re little green men. Hey NASA guys, start looking...they are there. Right behind you...got it?
- sockpuppets, on 07/31/2008, -1/+8Is water really that surprising? We've had images of ice caps on mars for years now.
- wunksta, on 07/31/2008, -3/+9I declare...MARTIAN LAW!!!!!
- fracktica, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6While I don't disagree with you, I always find it weird how NASA is always on the brink of collapse if they screw up. Can you imagine if all government organizations had to deal with this kind of do-or-die mentality?
"Congress, if you don't lower taxes, lower spending, win/end the war, and decrease the deficit by year's end, you're done!" - inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6Fraggle rock!
- gl77, on 07/31/2008, -1/+7really? wow imagine that......a periodical that has been published since the 1950's and well respected among many scientists and nerds alike is actually a prehistoric version of "The Onion" which has absolutely no merit whatsoever, as declared by dOOBiEx213.
please, doobie, bless us more with your deep deep knowledge. - Dunge, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5Priceless, that's really on NASA's site :)
- DoscoJones, on 07/31/2008, -1/+6It really isn't news. The ESA orbiter had absolute confirmation of water ice under the surface and at the poles several years ago. Total, absolute confirmation: http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMYKEX5WRD_ ...
The excitement you're seeing on Digg is because this time it's a NASA probe and the ice is right there on the ground next to it. For the uneducated, this has a higher cool factor than does definitive evidence recorded from orbit.
And now watch me get dugg down by the boneheads who think you can't get direct evidence from orbit. - Chronoped, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4Maybe they should go and check in some of the old spots they passed over, like these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u-20g7Bwdw
They gave us pictures and no answers. - ApokalypseNow, on 07/31/2008, -1/+5It really should come as no surprise that we have water ice on mars - hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe (if we disregard stupidity), and helium is the 2nd most abundant. Helium is chemically inert under most normal conditions. Oxygen, however, is the third most abundant element in the universe, and readily combines with hydrogen. Thus, water is one of the most abundant chemicals in the universe.
- beowulflee, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3The Chinese can help with that.
- Metasquares, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3Unless the water was produced by the same conditions precisely because the two planets are neighbors.
- h3lx, on 07/31/2008, -2/+5How much water is on Mars?
- bluto36, on 07/31/2008, -2/+5retard much?
you must be an Alex Jones disciple. - cheezintern, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3not to mention this story was posted yesterday
- Merendino, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3MARS rocks!
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -1/+4Aliens are grey, not green.
- JackHoffman, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3NASA actually has a picture to celebrate the occasion:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/264634main_1515 ...
It shows the area where the probe which confirmed the existence of water on Mars landed. Here it is in QTVR format:
http://www.fotoausflug.de/en-mars-phoenix.html - RNEMESiS42, on 07/31/2008, -1/+4Becuase for decades we knew that the ice caps on Mars were mainly frozen carbon dioxide, and we HOPED that they were also made up of water ice. It wasn't until relatively recently that we were able to confirm (without a doubt) that the ice caps were also made up of water ice, but it is mainly below the surface (like the ice Phoenix is digging up right now).
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3I'm sorry for my lack of excitement but i need more information. Did we find water, what is the water composed of? Stats/specs? Minerals found etc?
- wigging, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3I'm thirsty!
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -1/+4"Yes, exactly - dihydrogen monoxide."
End women's suffrage!!! - citnaj, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2You mean blue skies like this? http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmars/edbrief/marsedFS6. ...
Or, do you like the more popular ridiculously red version better? http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00571.jpg
I discovered this strange discrepancy one day after having visited a JPL site with the blue sky version, and then having recalled seeing the exact same picture but in red at Space.com just days prior. There are many more examples of this.
I strongly encourage whoever is interested in digging in a little more to do it (I'll spare you from my own rambling). Here's a site to get you started: http://www.thinkerofthoughts.com/?p=5 - mstrebe, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2It was thought that they could have been CO2 frost.
- spaceyraygun, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2makes me wish i had three hands...
- blipblopblip, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2^ Stop the rock.
- gl77, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2they are still running tests on the minute amount of ice that was dumped into the TEGA. this could take weeks. they are slowly heating it up and measuring what is in the vapor at different temperatures to determine what it is made of.
- ausfahrt, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Next blue skies on mars.
- blipblopblip, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2STOP the Rock!
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Same reason the dinosaurs went extinct...
::whispers::
Because you touch yourself at night. - TheHerk, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Interesting point, and I'll say it would change the level of implication, but it still has impact. That still indicates that water exists on two planets right next to each other which has has an impact on statistics. Just that is CAN exist on multiple bodies is interesting to me, especially when we aren't certain the derivative of the water.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Motorboat her.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2no, you didn't.
- Tddupre, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOPZkBad8mQ
- lulder, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1If some Robot like vehicle landed in my backyard, id probably hide away from it too.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1holy *****... really!!? you're out there man... FAR OUT. lolol
- ShadyG, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1SCHOOLHOUSE rocks!
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