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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows on Mars
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post Dec 6 2006, 05:57 PM
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"MARS
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post Dec 6 2006, 05:57 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 6 2006, 07:55 AM) *
It's typically more efficient for me to wait until you post a link here, Alex biggrin.gif

Your wish is my command. biggrin.gif MSSS link.

EDIT: And I believe the paper will be published in the December 8, 2006, issue of Science.

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post Dec 6 2006, 06:12 PM
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post Dec 6 2006, 06:15 PM
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very nice summaries on the msss page. Something else to look at with more detail with HiRISE perhaps? smile.gif

edit-downloads on: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index.html
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post Dec 6 2006, 06:23 PM
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QUOTE (remcook @ Dec 6 2006, 11:15 AM) *
very nice summaries on the msss page. Something else to look at with more detail with HiRISE perhaps? smile.gif

edit-downloads on: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index.html


I'd be willing to bet that it's far more likely to have CRISM follow up then HiRISE, although HiRISE will almost certainly photograph these areas quite soon (I have no idea when, so...)
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post Dec 6 2006, 07:09 PM
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A very good press confernce, good questions.

I have been a child during the Voyager encounters, but the discovery of frequent liquid water on mars is something I compare to volcanism on Io or gryovulcanism on Triton. Just great. The legacy of MGS continues. May she rest (or circle) in peace.

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post Dec 6 2006, 07:15 PM
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QUOTE (Analyst @ Dec 6 2006, 12:09 PM) *
frequent liquid water on mars is something I compare to volcanism on Io or gryovulcanism on Triton. Just great. The legacy of MGS continues. May she rest (or circle) in peace.

I wouldn't go THAT far. It is interesting, but the news that Mars gets hit by impact craters, and that gullies are present-day phenomena (given the crater counts on previously observed gullies) isn't that shocking. Interesting, but not shocking. I would put it on the level of the discovery of lakes on Titan, a discovery which just confirmed that we were at least on the right track with Titan.


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QUOTE (Analyst @ Dec 6 2006, 02:09 PM) *
... the discovery of frequent liquid water on mars...

You mean recent, not frequent, right?
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post Dec 6 2006, 07:21 PM
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QUOTE (tuvas @ Dec 6 2006, 01:23 PM) *
I'd be willing to bet that it's far more likely to have CRISM follow up then HiRISE, although HiRISE will almost certainly photograph these areas quite soon (I have no idea when, so...)
I'd be willing to bet that when CRISM focuses on these gullies they'll find salts of some kind. I'd even put a smaller wager on sulphate salts. As Steve Squyres mentioned in response to a question at Open University, the "water" on mars is acidic and inhospitable to life. That suggests that this AP article may be premature.
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Martian find raises chances of life
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"This underscores the importance of searching for life on Mars, either present or past," said Bruce Jakosky, an astrobiologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who had no role in the study. "It's one more reason to think that life could be there.''
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post Dec 6 2006, 07:29 PM
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QUOTE (Steve @ Dec 6 2006, 12:21 PM) *
I'd be willing to bet that when CRISM focuses on these gullies they'll find salts of some kind. I'd even put a smaller wager on sulphate salts. As Steve Squyres mentioned in response to a question at Open University, the "water" on mars is acidic and inhospitable to life. That suggests that this AP article may be premature.
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I agree. I would not be surprised if the bright deposits are some kind of sulphate salt.


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post Dec 6 2006, 07:39 PM
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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars
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Note: I'm going to change the name of this thread to the title above (or something close to it, depending on the space in the topic line).

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QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 6 2006, 09:29 AM) *
I agree. I would not be surprised if the bright deposits are some kind of sulphate salt.

Aside from HiRISE and CRISM, Malin mentioned SHARAD. I'm interested to see if the putative aquifers are detectable by GPR.
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post Dec 6 2006, 07:53 PM
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post Dec 6 2006, 07:56 PM
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QUOTE (Steve @ Dec 6 2006, 07:21 PM) *
I'd be willing to bet that when CRISM focuses on these gullies they'll find salts of some kind. I'd even put a smaller wager on sulphate salts. As Steve Squyres mentioned in response to a question at Open University, the "water" on mars is acidic and inhospitable to life. That suggests that this AP article may be premature.
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Well, we have evidence from two landing sites for acidic water in the form of sulfates. But don't forget that OMEGA has found plenty of evidence for gypsum and kieserite all over Mars, which are neutral salts and don't necessarily imply an acidic envrionment.
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