Evidence of water found on Mars :salute:

[Demon]

NASA says Curiosity rover finds evidence of water on Mars - Computerworld

Less than two months into its mission, NASA scientist say the Curiosity rover has found evidence of a "vigorous" thousand-year water flow on the surface of Mars.

This is exciting news for NASA scientists who sent the nuclear-powered, SUV-sized super rover to Mars with the hopes that it would find evidence of whether Mars was ever capable of supporting life.

On Thursday, scientists said they have found new evidence that water, one of the keys to sustaining life, once raced across an area not far from where Curiosity landed in August.

The evidence came in the form of an outcropping of rocks that appears to have been heaved up and covered with streambed gravel. The rover drove by the outcropping, which had earlier been spotted by one of NASA's Mars orbiters.

"We found interesting outcrops," said John Grotzinger, a project scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a geology professor at the California Institute of Technology. "It looks like someone came along with a jackhammer and lifted up a sidewalk... This is a rock that was formed in the presence of water... a vigorous flow in the surface of Mars. We are really excited about this because this is the reason we came to this site."

Scientists said they believe the water moved at about three feet per second, at a depth between ankle and hip deep. While they could not say when the water flow started or stopped, they estimated that it lasted more than 1,000 years.

This isn't the first time that NASA has reported discovering evidence of water on Mars.

Just over a year ago, NASA announced that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had taken images showing evidence of past water flows on the Martian surface. NASA scientist said the planet might hold frozen water just beneath its surface.

William Dietrich, Curiosity's science co-investigator, called this latest discovery a turning point.

"This is the first time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars," he said. "This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it."

Dietrich noted that scientists now have visual evidence of particle collisions during the transportation of water, a finding that shows there was a "vigorous" water flow and not a small amount of water seepage.

"Now that we're down on the ground with Curiosity we can see the textural evidence, the individual pebbles, the rounding that gives us a sense of that," he said. "It wasn't a single burst of water that ran down the canyon all in a day. There are too many things that point away from that. How long would it take? This is opening the door to answering that question."

Grotzinger said the discovery signifies the real beginning of the rover's science mission.

Now that scientists have proof that water once flowed across Mars, they can begin to look for signs of other elements, such as carbon, that are also needed to support life.

"Now we look at more rocks," said Grotzinger. "We get more context. We need to recreate the environment with even greater detail, with an understanding of the chemistry going on at that time, to understand if this was an area where an organism once lived. Was this an inhabitable environment? That is still to be determined."

NASA scientists said the Curiosity rover found evidence of an ancient flowing stream in this rock outcropping. (Photo: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Crazy, didn't Mowgli a few months ago post some article about how Mars wasn't ever like Earth? Mars' molten core "died" and they lost the magneto sphere that protects it like the one that protects our earth

 

[Demon]

Crazy, didn't Mowgli a few months ago post some article about how Mars wasn't ever like Earth? Mars' molten core "died" and they lost the magneto sphere that protects it like the one that protects our earth

I wouldn't know, I don't pay attention to delusional, irrational bible thumpers

 

[88m3]

I wonder what it's like to have sex on Mars

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

^^^Mars' gravity is only 38% of Earth's. That would mean I could fukk a fat bytch and it would feel like a skinny girl...

 

[Demon]

How did this shyt get buried?

this is the Higher Learning sub forum and this shyt is a HUGE breakthrough and noone is studying this shyt?

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Doesnt mars have icecaps?

 

[Demon]

Doesnt mars have icecaps?

Doesn't Jesus have the mannerisms of a complete fakkit

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Doesn't Jesus have the mannerisms of a complete fakkit

This is a forum where you leave trolling at the door. Please take that demonic trash to a place where it is appreciated like JBO Shame shame on you for this sickening post. You're better then this, friend.

That said, wouldnt they know theres water on the planet, if there is ice?

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

The emerald tablets say that we lived on mars there was a war and am atomic explosion ruined the planet.

I think a while back they fault evidence of nuclear debris within the depths of mars which suggest that a huge nuclear explosion had to have gone off that millions of years ago.

We then went to earth Bleh Bleh Bleh Atlantis etc etc etc.

 

[Bud Bundy]

Crazy, didn't Mowgli a few months ago post some article about how Mars wasn't ever like Earth? Mars' molten core "died" and they lost the magneto sphere that protects it like the one that protects our earth

lol @ magneto sphere

 

[Bud Bundy]

Doesnt mars have icecaps?

made out of carbon i believe.

 

[Demon]

This is a forum where you leave trolling at the door.

Yet you with shyt of worshiping some human man that existed that had alot of charisma and swag???

You want us to acknowledge and worship some human man that shyt and busted the same nut I did?

That is truly...........so demonic friend

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Yet you with shyt of worshiping some human man that existed that had alot of charisma and swag???

You want us to acknowledge and worship some human man that shyt and busted the same nut I did?

That is truly...........so demonic friend

This has nothing to do with mars. Please stay on topic and find something within yourself that is ready for the maturity that comes with age. Honestly, friend, at this juncture i dont have time for this demonic trash you spew. Please demon, be gone like your dismissed, friend.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

made out of carbon i believe.

I see. Just looking at the terrain, you can tell there was water there at one point. Hopefully demons didnt ruin mars like they're ruining earth.