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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I personally believe the best thing we can do after the current science lab on wheels has done it's job and given back all the data we can get is to mass produce probes and rovers to a basic but hardy and functional level. Little ones like Opportunity as opposed to the whole deluxe package as the current one is.
Then drop a dozen or two or 3 dozen of them all over the surface of Mars to check the rather lengthy list of 'neat' spots. Perhaps we'd get a lot answered in a relatively short time that way. Mass produce for quantity...after the current quality has run it's course for what it can do. At least that seems logical to me.edit on 25-8-2012 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by yorkshirelad
There are much better examples of water on Mars. Here's an article on the ESA website about water on Mars:
www.esa.int...
Originally posted by qmantoo
Originally posted by yorkshirelad
There are much better examples of water on Mars. Here's an article on the ESA website about water on Mars:
www.esa.int...
OK, thanks, so why are we not investigating areas where water is in abundance and where 'life' would logically be if it is to be found? Why are we not openly (yes, openly) acknowledging that there is water there and it exists in quantities enough to allow life to flourish?
If you asked 100 people on the street whether there was water on Mars, most would probably say 'No' since Mars has been sold to us as dry and lifeless and since it is a fairly big deal to find water on any planet, why are we not shouting it from the rooftops?
Water containing high levels of salts could exist
Saltiness lowers the freezing temperature of water. Sites with active flows get warm enough, even in the shallow subsurface, to sustain liquid water that is about as salty as Earth's oceans, while pure water would freeze at the observed temperatures.
Originally posted by thetiler
the images just don't lie.
Originally posted by qmantoo
The image is of Maunder Crater and shows liquid spewing out of holes in the cliff face. You can actually see the fluid coming from the holes in the clifftop and looks as if it is coming out under pressure like from a dam on Earth for example.