Mud on Mars: Look for Life in Russell Crater 26
An anonymous reader writes "Mars Global Surveyor satellite images show mud may have flowed on Mars as recently as the last 100 years. The place is called Russell Crater, in the southern hemisphere. Water would exist during summer noon, long enough to carve out the embankments and dams that make these patterns different from rocky avalanches. The BBC has an interview."
The BBC has an interview. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The BBC has an interview. (Score:1)
BBC interview with the Mars Global Surveyor (Score:3, Funny)
MGS: "No, you may not call me Mars. That is a planet. My name is 'Mars Global Surveyor.' I have discovered mud. On Mars. The planet. A brain the size of a planet, and what do they have me doing? Out taking pictures of mud."
BBC: "Well, you certainly seem to know where your towel is!
That's it from the BBC, so long and thanks for all the fish!"
MGS: *groan*
Re:The BBC has an interview. (Score:2)
Re:The BBC has an interview. (Score:2)
Re:The BBC has an interview. (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything.
Full resolution pics (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Full resolution pics (Score:2)
Mud on Mars Smells like...Nirvana (Score:1)
Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria
An albino
A mosquito
My albedo
Yay!
A new MUD! Great! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A new MUD! Great! (Score:4, Funny)
Mud??? (Score:1)
seriously, though (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:seriously, though (Score:1)
I wonder if the spaceflight itself wouldn't sterilize many things already. Wasn't it only spores that could travel through space? Praps I am recalling incorrectly...
lunar surveyor (Score:4, Informative)
Saxifrage Russell (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Saxifrage Russell (Score:1, Funny)
Water on Mars... (Score:3, Interesting)
By that I mean, if all of our probes can't confirm this and in 10, 20, or 30 years we finally get Humans out there and they do confirm water on Mars, will that justify the expense and danger of manned space exploration?
It just seems to me that if there is any water on Mars, a probe will have a lot harder time finding definative proof of it than an intelligent human being.
Re:Water on Mars... (Score:2)
COLOR Please? (Score:2)
Re:COLOR Please? (Score:2, Interesting)
Where's the Evidence? (Score:1)
The picture looks like sand dunes to me. That's not some foot-wide mud puddle; Those things are huge.
I don't see any evidence of mud or liquid water.
Sublime! (Score:1)
New Dogs and New Tricks (Score:1)
Re:New Dogs and New Tricks (Score:1)
Re:New Dogs and New Tricks (Score:1)
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