Scientists Search for Flowing Water on Mars!

"Thanks to a flotilla of Mars orbiters, there's been a steady flow of
information streaming in from that puzzling world. Scientists are
piecing together a far more coherent view of "real time" versus
"geological time" in dealing with the whole of Mars today.


One of the more perplexing finds on Mars are features that look like
the product of groundwater seeping to the surface. These gullies could
be formed by flowing water-perhaps fed by a groundwater supply.
Deposits of soil and rocks transported by these flows have been found
too.


More importantly, gully features appear to be young. So young, in fact,
they might be forming today. Clearly, gullies may well be areas of
astrobiologial interest-a niche for life that could be present and
accounted for on Mars."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...s_gullies.html


Double-A

Space.com has all the information but they didn't try to tell everyone. Here
is a better information in the pictures to tell the story.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/sc...erland&emc=rss


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"Thanks to a flotilla of Mars orbiters, there's been a steady flow of
information streaming in from that puzzling world. Scientists are
piecing together a far more coherent view of "real time" versus
"geological time" in dealing with the whole of Mars today.


One of the more perplexing finds on Mars are features that look like
the product of groundwater seeping to the surface. These gullies could
be formed by flowing water-perhaps fed by a groundwater supply.
Deposits of soil and rocks transported by these flows have been found
too.


More importantly, gully features appear to be young. So young, in fact,
they might be forming today. Clearly, gullies may well be areas of
astrobiologial interest-a niche for life that could be present and
accounted for on Mars."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...s_gullies.html


Double-A

Double-A The public is so gullable if the NASA Mafia showed Noah's Ark
floating in a large crater lake with Martian green men.ready to sail it
down all those man made canals.(most would believe it) Oh ya The
Mars Man bust was built as a light house. NASA would make a billion
bucks if it could come up with just one molecule of ice water on Mars
surface. Bert

String wrote:
Space.com has all the information but they didn't try to tell everyone. Here
is a better information in the pictures to tell the story.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/sc...erland&emc=rss




Amazing!

Martian water percing up right out of the ground!

Double-A

String wrote:
Space.com has all the information but they didn't try to tell everyone. Here
is a better information in the pictures to tell the story.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/sc...erland&emc=rss




These pictures of Martian water flow evidence just made the CBS Evening
News!

"Where there's water, there may be life," they said.

Double-A

Double-A Water coming up to the surface or liquid CO2 I'm going with
CO2 as you know I would Bert

If there was water on Mars, it would freeze into ice. There is a theory that
solar system is warm up that creats global warming on earth and mars warmin
on Mars. Someone points out that Pluto is also warming up at this moment.
All solar system must be warm more than usual.


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String wrote:
Space.com has all the information but they didn't try to tell everyone.
Here
is a better information in the pictures to tell the story.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/sc...erland&emc=rss




These pictures of Martian water flow evidence just made the CBS Evening
News!

"Where there's water, there may be life," they said.

Double-A

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
Double-A Water coming up to the surface or liquid CO2 I'm going with
CO2 as you know I would Bert

Liquid CO2 on Mars? Is that a joke?

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
Double-A Water coming up to the surface or liquid CO2 I'm going with
CO2 as you know I would Bert


If you think water wouldn't last long on the surface of Mars, liquid
CO2 would be a real "flash in the pan"!

When I was in college, a professor was doing a demonstration with some
liquid nitrogen that he had in an insulated beaker. When he had
finished, he just dumped out the liquid on the floor!

poof

Double-A

Bill Hudson wrote:
G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
Double-A Water coming up to the surface or liquid CO2 I'm going with
CO2 as you know I would Bert

Liquid CO2 on Mars? Is that a joke?

Since elsewhere you bemoan the lack of scientific counterarguments to
your statements, I'll provide a three:

Fact #1: "The average air pressure at the surface of Mars is 6
millibars (compared to 1013 millibars on Earth)." - Kieffer, H.H, &
B.M. Jakosky. Mars. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1992.
as cited in Basic Mars Facts. NASA.

Fact #2: "The average recorded temperature on Mars is -63° C (-81° F)
with a maximum temperature of 20° C (68° F) and a minimum of -140° C
(-220° F)." - http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm

Fact #3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid contains a
phase diagram of carbon dioxide.

Please note where (at what pressures and temperatures) liquid CO2 can
exist on the phase diagram. Note that the vertical scale is in 'Bars'
not 'millibars'. Fact #1 above dictates that the line for 6 millibars
would be below the "1 bar" mark at the bottom of the scale. There is
no temperature at which liquid CO2 can exist at 6 millibars of
pressure.

We think that from time to time CO2 "eruptions" occur as subsurface
solid CO2 sublimates directly into gas as the seasons change, but there
is no evidence of the kinds of pressure that would allow liquid CO2.

On the other hand, liquid water would have a 10 degree centigrade
temperature range in which it could exist in liquid form for short
periods of time before it evaporates.