reply to post by spin-FX
i found it interesting to find that this is the first time we have seen liquid on another planet. mars photos definitely show liquid erosion but no
liquid. clouds on other planets can be made up of liquid droplets OR ice crystals. this seems to confirm that if there is currently life in our solar
system besides earth, Titan would be the best place to look for it. (unless you think that the martians went underground when all the water
disappeared.)
I got two problems with this article. First of all, we've had pics of the petroleum lakes of Titan for a couple of years:
space.moonagewebdream.com...
-property-on-titan-for-sale-part-ii/
Second, it's also assumed that the solid sheet of frozen whatever on Enceladus is some form of liquid as well:
Pic of Enceladus
The only catch is in both cases they know it's some type of liquid, they just don't know exactly what it is. In both cases, they pretty well know,
they just can't say for sure. That is the same as what the pic on Mars is. So what exactly is the story here? I mean, they're so sure of frozen
liquid crust of Enceladus they're pondering sending a probe to break through the crust with the assumed possibility it could be a liquid world
underneath. It's not that I think finding a spec of moisture on Mars isn't neat, it's just that entire worlds of liquid have been found and for
some reason pretty much ignored for the sake of today's "headline". What is happening with all of these headlines is that the argument is no
longer researching the possibility that liquids exist beyond Earth ( absurd proposition in the first place ), it's that it's apparently a pretty
common occurance.
