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Old December 6th 06, 08:42 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ma...-20061206.html
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Old December 7th 06, 04:39 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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James Nicoll wrote:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ma...-20061206.html


This is old news really. Nobody with any brains at all bought into the
'dry dust avalanche' explanation. Any avalanching would be related to
outgassing, dehydroxylation, decomposition and water discharge anyways.

The truly spectacular and eminently useful result is the cratering rate.

The 150 meter diameter fresh crater was absolutely spectacular. I'm also
convinced they were forced to play their hand by the demise of MGS and
the arrival of MRO. They just can't sit on this stuff anymore, now that
everyone can almost see what is happening in real time and small scale.

This is NASA science nepotism at its most bizarre.

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Old December 7th 06, 04:45 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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I REALLY believe we should build some more spirits and opportunities
and let them explore.

obviously the design is GREAT, imagine what they could be doing.

no design work just pull out the plans and start a assembly
line.........

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Old December 7th 06, 08:40 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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By all means, there should be at least a little water on Mars, perhaps
0.1% of what's otherwise mostly dry ice could be that of plain old h2o.

What's the Mars core temperature?

If it isn't so extra planetology old and thus frozen to the core,
chances are that sequested water or brines containing h2o should coexist
underground. There could even be a co2/h2o composite of icy dry ice,
just not situated upon the near vacuum of that Mars surface.

How much tonnage of dry ice is there to behold?

After all, 0.1% is still a great amount of potential h2o.
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