Water in Mars

[nerj]

Confirmed by ESA by an Spectometer

http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM8ZB474OD_0.html

 

[dawdler]

Err... We have known a long time there has been ice on mars. The planet does have pretty visible polar caps you know.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

this really isn't that new.. GRS on odessey did basically the same thing a year ago. FPs uses a different technique, but it's not the first instrument to find water ice on mars.

 

[mrchimp]

I thought that was just dandruff.

 

[nerj]

No, the Theory was that there were ICE on Mars

But ICE can be CH4, CO2, CO etc...

But H2O ICE was never confirmed

 

[Lil' Timmy]

Err... We have known a long time there has been ice on mars. The planet does have pretty visible polar caps you know.

yeah, but it was not known whether those caps were water ice or dry ice until MGS (some evidence) and then odessy (GRS neutron flux evidence, fairly definitive), and now express' PFS (maybe slightly more definitive).

 

[Sui]

good point. all of it.

 

[The Mullinator]

They had found alot of hydrogen and hypothesized that the most likely form that hydrogen is in is water ice. It could be hydrogen in another form but they are pretty sure its H2O

 

[Direwolf]

Thats some of the best news the space program's had in a long while.
That means that we could make oxygen, hydrogen, grow stuff, and many other things there with having to bring gigantic amounts of water with us.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

well, the only other likely thing GRS could have been picking up would have been a clathrate like CH4.. and not many people believed that the caps were clathrates. GRS basically gave us a 95% confidence of maritan water-ice. i guess PFS gives us more like 99% (i don't know anything more about PFS than what's in the press release). ESA is making a huge deal out of this of course, but i personally don't see anything particularly interesting in it. the stereo camara is much more interesting to me.

 

[alehm]

they just want to grow that dope on Mars without fear of being raided by the po po

 

[Pauly]

IN mars??? or ON mars??? lol Wheres the cream filling?? Hostess

 

[Lil' Timmy]

IN mars??? or ON mars??? lol Wheres the cream filling?? Hostess

both. subsurface ice = IN mars, caps = ON mars. a cream filling would by definition be IN mars, of course. :|

 

[nerj]

I don't know if it's IN or ON or AT, but it is there

No soup for u, 1 year

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

both. subsurface ice = IN mars, caps = ON mars. a cream filling would by definition be IN mars, of course. :|

Unless of course the planet was somehow squeezed, thereb forcing the cream filling out onto the surface....then i suppose it would become more of a cream cap.

 

[Maskirovka]

or just a messy broken twinky in your hand.

 

[AudioRage]

I cream cap? is that some sort of head covering?

 

[nerj]

Ok may teh mods modify the thread title to "water on mars" or these guys will just keep talkin about this ****in cream