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  • Skerik
    Living in this tube
    • Mar 2004
    • 5215

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    NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

    1pm EST press conference. For those interested, you can watch it live over the web here:

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    (CBS 5) WASHINGTON NASA is expected to make a major announcement Wednesday regarding a "significant find" on Mars.

    NASA said the finding was a result of the Mars Global Surveyor mission.

    According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, the space agency will talk about the discovery of "flowing water" on the surface of the Red Planet.
    If that's true....wow.

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  • HealyMonster
    Titans Era has begun.
    • Aug 2002
    • 5992

    #2
    Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

    actual flowing water? or evidence that there once was flowing water there.

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    • skitch
      Fear Ameer
      • Oct 2002
      • 12349

      #3
      Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

      Wow.

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      • rudyjuly2
        Cade Cunningham
        • Aug 2002
        • 14815

        #4
        Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

        Originally posted by Renegade44
        actual flowing water? or evidence that there once was flowing water there.
        Yeah. That's a huge difference. I think most people believed there was water on the planet and there is ice isn't there? If they just confirm water was once there, it won't be nearly as big a deal as if they actually find water on the planet which I think is doubtful.

        I always find this stuff neat. Its one reason I really liked Mission to Mars. The science behind it was really accurate from the stuff I had read in the past about how the trip would have to go (like using a Greenhouse on the planet, etc).

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        • LiquidCrash
          All Star
          • Jul 2002
          • 6066

          #5
          Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

          It would be pretty cool if it was actual running water. It would also be cool if it was Marvin the Martian.

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          • MassNole
            Banned
            • Mar 2006
            • 18848

            #6
            Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

            Originally posted by LiquidCrash
            It would be pretty cool if it was actual running water. It would also be cool if it was Marvin the Martian.

            That it would.......

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              yellow
              • Sep 2002
              • 66469

              #7
              Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

              Or a transformer..lol

              Flowing water at this day and age, that would be a surprise, but I somehow doubt it. Life on another planets makes no sense to me anyhow. It serves no purpose.

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              • MassNole
                Banned
                • Mar 2006
                • 18848

                #8
                Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                Originally posted by KDRE_OS
                Or a transformer..lol

                Flowing water at this day and age, that would be a surprise, but I somehow doubt it. Life on another planets makes no sense to me anyhow. It serves no purpose.
                Serves no purpose?

                Here is how I look at, when I look into the sky I remember every star is the sun for some galaxy. It seems impossible that there is no other life out there to me. We aren't that special on Earth.

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                • skitch
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                  • Oct 2002
                  • 12349

                  #9
                  Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                  Originally posted by MassNole
                  Serves no purpose?

                  Here is how I look at, when I look into the sky I remember every star is the sun for some galaxy. It seems impossible that there is no other life out there to me. We aren't that special on Earth.
                  That's how I see it, as well. God only knows how big the universe truly is... there's no way that NOTHING else is out there.

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                    yellow
                    • Sep 2002
                    • 66469

                    #10
                    Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                    Of course we're special. How many other planets can boast the things we have here?

                    Anyhow here are a couple of pics



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                    • Skerik
                      Living in this tube
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 5215

                      #11
                      Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                      Some text to accompany those pics....

                      Dramatic new photographs of Mars have revealed the possible existence of water on its surface.

                      The images - released for the first time on Wednesday by the US space agency NASA - were taken earlier this year in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the Red Planet.

                      ...

                      NASA researchers have documented the formation of new craters on the plant's surface and found bright, light-coloured deposits in gullies that were not present in previous photos.

                      They concluded the deposits - possibly mud, salt or frost - were left there when water recently cascaded through the channels.

                      In another photo a number of gullies on a crater wall can be clearly seen. The scientists believe that they may have been formed in relatively recent Martian history by erosion caused by flowing, liquid water.
                      I wonder what "recent" means in terms of Martian history....

                      Dramatic new photographs of Mars have raised hopes life could be found on Mars after all. Scientists say they have photographic evidence that suggests liquid water may have been on the planet as little as five years ago
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                      • p2xgamers
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                        • Jul 2002
                        • 4735

                        #12
                        Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                        Originally posted by Skerik
                        I wonder what "recent" means in terms of Martian history....
                        I can't remember now but I swore I saw on an article that it said "several years ago". I'll try and find that later on.
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                        • SPTO
                          binging
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 68046

                          #13
                          Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                          Originally posted by Skerik
                          Some text to accompany those pics....



                          I wonder what "recent" means in terms of Martian history....

                          http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
                          Probably a couple million years ago.

                          I'm sure Richard C. Hoagland is jumping for joy since he's had the idea that Mars was once very much like earth until very recently. Of course some of his ideas such as extradimensional physics definitely fall into the "kooky" category.
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                            yellow
                            • Sep 2002
                            • 66469

                            #14
                            Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                            What a crock of a story.

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                            • SPTO
                              binging
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 68046

                              #15
                              Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

                              Originally posted by KDRE_OS
                              What a crock of a story.
                              Eh?

                              Care to elaborate?
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