Oh great. More places we won’t be able to send rovers then.
That is a very weird take for such amazing news
So… It’s not weird if you have ever worked to try to get funding to do mars exploratory missions with the approval of the planetary councils.
One of the big rules is we can’t go where we think there might be water and therefore life on Mars unless we can prove our device is 100% sanitized. To the point where a friend and colleague gave up and suggested we just shoot the surface with a copper ball and just collect the dust once it’s in upper atmosphere.
Also, I was already part of a group that was taking pictures of lava tubes and we discovered cracking and shifting soil like a decade ago letting us know we had found surface water. It’s kinda old news to me.
Edit: I guess the interesting part of this discovery is specifically that it’s frost since that is a unique form for the water to take especially there. Since we would expect it to sublimate pretty quickly.
Wait you work on Mars missions?! What the heck do you do man that’s awesome!
Not anymore. I couldn’t get funding for either of my projects and literally couldn’t figure out to do with my dual majors in theoretical astrophysics and xenobiology.
So now I work basically just IT support…
I helped build the infrared cameras for some satellites, nothing like getting a stack of diamond disks for lenses and just tossing half of them for impurity reasons to make you understand how the budgets end up so high.
And I was using the THEMIS camera for specifically work with mars atmospheric and habitability studies.
Edit: I dunno here is a fun side fact. Because of my past life, I have had direct interactions with Bill Nye (the science guy), that make me know he is an asshole, and I consider him to be a negative force on the scientific community. Just all around a self absorbed anti intellectual.
Another one for the books!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_discoveries_of_water_on_Mars
I was about to say; isn’t this about the dozenth time they’ve found water on Mars? It’s not news anymore.
It’s the location that’s surprising.
Yeah, you’d expect milk there
There’s an image on Wikipedia I can’t find showcasing water on Mars.
A glass of water on a Mars bar.
Never mind, it’s not close enough.
Because I found it.
Nice sleuthing!
The link now says “content no longer available”. Were you able to track down the original Wikipedia article as well?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Best_of_BJAODN
Section: ♥Water on Mars♥
I’ll try to find it.
Not the exact image but close enough
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Quick, send 200 billionaires to Mars to confirm this.
Don’t send Elon, though. I’d rather we not contaminate the planet.
I’d rather contaminate Mars with him than Earth.
Let’s just launch him into the Sun.
Sadly, it takes a shit ton of energy to get things to the sun. Everything is moving very quickly around the sun. You need the opposite amount of energy to fall in.
the frost patches cover a vast area of each of the volcanoes, and its water content could fill roughly 60 Olympic swimming pools, measuring close to 29.4 million gallons (111 million liters) of water.
Wow! That’s far more than I expected. I think it’s probably more than anyone expected!
