Mars Global Surveyor Recap

ScottMaxwell writes: "Though the date passed with little notice, JPL's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft recently completed its primary mission, to study Mars for a full Martian year (about 687 Earth days). It's returned more mission data than all previous Mars missions combined, including some of the best evidence yet that water once flowed freely on the Martian surface. Check out the project's Web site for more info and images (including my personal favorite) as MGS moves into its extended mission."

Re:It's been said before...

[PhilHibbs]

The problem is, once Mars lost it's magnetic field, the solar wind just blew away most of it's atmosphere.

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[OmegaDan]

If its anything like a movie I saw recently some aliens live in that "face", and it has really cool special effects.

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[MorseKode]

Yep, i can't wait the moment too, that humans really decide to start terraforming, or at least colonizating mars. I hope it's before actual predictions. I mean, what do we have to loose? For ex. when America was discovered, lot of bad things happened after that, but much more good things happened too. I see it as a new chance for humanity to discover new places, advance as race and just think in the boom that this would cause to global economy, new work places, new industries, new careers, etc, lot of new things... it will be a new era. I know is not as easy as I say here, and that maybe the money should be used to solve global hunger.

But i think we can do both, we just need to make the Tobin Tax real (0,1% tax to all international transactions would be inverted to help 3rth world countries) and a USA, Japanese, Chinese, Russian or whatever other country president like Kennedy (i think it was him how was when we got the moon) that with a strong hand decides to invert on starting Mars colonization, and i don't care if USA or other string country takes the first place in this, bcuz after all i'm sure my country won't ever do it (Argentina) we are still trying to estabilize our economy and pay our international debt.

So to conclude... LET'S DO IT, MARS IS WAITING.
hehe sounds so easy. ;)

My $0,02 to it.

It's been said before...

[Karma Sink]

But it bears repeating.

If water once flowed, it suggests life like earth. That means it should be feasable to terraform the planet. Import/create water, bring plant species to make oxygen, so on and so forth.

What I really think will be more interesting than anything else will be the archaeological digs on Mars. I think the questions about life on other planets can be answered by digging down a few hundred million years on Mars.