July 31, 200817 yr Source: Reuters NASA says Mars craft "touched and tasted" water Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:52pm EDT By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists said on Thursday they had definitive proof that water exists on Mars after further tests on ice found on the planet in June by the Phoenix Mars Lander. "We have water," said William Boynton, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument on Phoenix. "We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted," he said, referring to the craft's instruments. NASA on Thursday also extended the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander by five weeks, saying its work was moving beyond the search for water to exploring whether the red planet was ever capable of sustaining life. "We are extending the mission through September 30," Michael Meyer, chief scientist for NASA's Mars exploration program, told a televised news conference. The extension will add about $2 million to the $420 million cost of landing Phoenix on May 25 for what was a scheduled three-month mission, Meyer said. ... Click here to read on.
August 1, 200817 yr pretty wild stuff. Would be weird to find any life(organisms) and also really awesome.
August 1, 200817 yr This means that in the future Mars should be able to support a human settlement/colony, because at least it has water to support itself. Biggest space news in some time, I believe.
August 1, 200817 yr Great, now we gotta worry about Martians. Just when things couldn't get any worse.
August 1, 200817 yr Great, now we gotta worry about Martians. Just when things couldn't get any worse. Hahahaha thats great we have a back up plan for when the sun burns out i like 8 biliion years but ui will be able to expireience it all because i have discovered the fountain of youth and its all for me o i also heard there was water on saturn or 1 of its moons is that true
August 1, 200817 yr This means that in the future Mars should be able to support a human settlement/colony, because at least it has water to support itself. Biggest space news in some time, I believe. can move all our waste up there and create energy plants it will be fantastic
August 1, 200817 yr Maybe Sampson can bid for a stadium up there? hahaha i bet you thered be a lawsuit there to
August 1, 200817 yr Great, now we gotta worry about Martians. Just when things couldn't get any worse. Yeah, we already gotta worry about the Lochness Monster trying to trick us into giving him da tree fitty.
August 1, 200817 yr Great, now we gotta worry about Martians. Just when things couldn't get any worse. Yeah, we already gotta worry about the Lochness Monster trying to trick us into giving him da tree fitty. when we catch Nessy shamoo is outta buisness
August 1, 200817 yr Great, now we gotta worry about Martians. Just when things couldn't get any worse. Hahahaha thats great we have a back up plan for when the sun burns out i like 8 biliion years but ui will be able to expireience it all because i have discovered the fountain of youth and its all for me o i also heard there was water on saturn or 1 of its moons is that true Allegedly there is a subsurface (ice) ocean of water beneath Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter. MrMarlinPride probably was referring to the fact that the Cassini probe has found liquid on the surface of Titan. I read about that in today's PBP. Here is the story: NASA says liquid confirmed on Saturn's moon Titan PASADENA, Calif. ? At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday. Scientists positively identified the presence of ethane, according to a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which manages the Cassini mission exploring Saturn, its rings and moons. Liquid ethane is a component of crude oil. Cassini has made more than 40 close flybys of Titan, a giant planet-sized satellite of the ringed world. Scientists had theorized that Titan might have oceans of methane, ethane and other hydrocarbons, but Cassini found hundreds of dark, lake-like features instead, and it wasn't known at first whether they were liquid or dark, solid material, JPL's statement said. "This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid," Bob Brown, team leader of Cassini's visual and mapping instrument, said in the statement. The instrument was used during a December flyby to observe a feature dubbed Ontario Lacus, in the south polar region, that is about 7,800 square miles, slightly larger than North America's Lake Ontario. Cassini reached Saturn in mid-2004 and at the end of that year launched a probe named Huygens that parachuted to the surface of Titan the following January. The mission is a project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. link -- http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/conten...sini_Titan.html
August 1, 200817 yr Great, now we gotta worry about Martians. Just when things couldn't get any worse. Hahahaha thats great we have a back up plan for when the sun burns out i like 8 biliion years but ui will be able to expireience it all because i have discovered the fountain of youth and its all for me o i also heard there was water on saturn or 1 of its moons is that true Allegedly there is a subsurface (ice) ocean of water beneath Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter. MrMarlinPride probably was referring to the fact that the Cassini probe has found liquid on the surface of Titan. I read about that in today's PBP. Here is the story: NASA says liquid confirmed on Saturn's moon Titan PASADENA, Calif. ? At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday. Scientists positively identified the presence of ethane, according to a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which manages the Cassini mission exploring Saturn, its rings and moons. Liquid ethane is a component of crude oil. Cassini has made more than 40 close flybys of Titan, a giant planet-sized satellite of the ringed world. Scientists had theorized that Titan might have oceans of methane, ethane and other hydrocarbons, but Cassini found hundreds of dark, lake-like features instead, and it wasn't known at first whether they were liquid or dark, solid material, JPL's statement said. "This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid," Bob Brown, team leader of Cassini's visual and mapping instrument, said in the statement. The instrument was used during a December flyby to observe a feature dubbed Ontario Lacus, in the south polar region, that is about 7,800 square miles, slightly larger than North America's Lake Ontario. Cassini reached Saturn in mid-2004 and at the end of that year launched a probe named Huygens that parachuted to the surface of Titan the following January. The mission is a project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. link -- http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/conten...sini_Titan.html yea tahts it i saw it yesterday it was a headline on aol news
August 2, 200817 yr Great! Now we can send the Mets and the Phillies up there! Meh, we already know there's water there so there's a better chance they'll survive.
August 2, 200817 yr Maybe Sampson can bid for a stadium up there? hahaha i bet you thered be a lawsuit there to Norman Braman: "Wait a minute, I can maybe put a dealership there......Does Mars look like slum or blight to you?? Whaaaaaa. I'm old."
August 7, 200817 yr Maybe Sampson can bid for a stadium up there? hahaha i bet you thered be a lawsuit there to I'm sure J'onn J'onzz is just waiting to file it. :mischief They also found small amounts of perchlorate in some of the soil samples, a material that hadn't been detected on Mars before. They're not sure yet if it was there when Phoenix landed, or was the result of contamination from Phoenix (it's a solid fuel component on Earth; think aluminum perchlorate). If it's a Martian component, it could be counter-indicative of life.
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