Water in Mars Meteor ?

Well, we know there was/is water in Mars:).

Too bad they can't bring home lots of rocks from there!

Ed, that looks like a pearl:). And that's a fantastic heart!!

I find it ironic that we just spent 5 Billion to send a rover to Mars to find water and here this thing plops Martian water in our laps FOR FREE!
Bob

I like the irony
thumbs up


The Mars exploration is sold
to the public as the exploration
to look for water or life ect...
that gets the public interested
and secures funding

Yet ,if were honest with ourselves
space exploration
and especially the Mars trip
is thought up by handful of brainiacs
that talk the public into funding
for their own wishful nerdy ideas
because they can do it
because it there

which is fine
there is definitely worse things to do in the universe

But they already have excellent ideas --
high probability-- of what they are going find
before they even get off the ground
its that slim- not knowing -that makes great science

heck the universe is full of water
its abundant out there
they've known this for decades

mostly

How much water are you talking ?
certainly didn't expect to find Lake Superior !
evaporates & ice sure
but very unlikely that there is underground springs
they've known this for decades
mostly

They didn't know it was still there tho... rocks could have formed millions of years ago with water, then Mars could have been hit by a meteor (similar to the event that destroyed the dinosaurs here), and the water blew into the vaccum of space. You can tell what minerals are in a rock, you can tell it had water. It doesn't tell you that the origin of the rock still has water until you go look at it:).

How much water? Last I looked, the terraforming involved nukes into the core to melt the ice (if it's there). Not sure how they'd create the ozone layer, but maybe the sudden impact would do it. Great way to get rid of old nukes around the world... no idea if they thought of that. As I recall, in 1982, the US nuke arsenal alone was sufficient to knock the earth off its axis (nuclear winter), 110 times. The Soviets had roughly the same capability.

240x capacity to knock the earth off axis, properly placed, should be sufficient to start the terraforming process and melt the ice on Mars *I* would think (but I'm no rocket scientist).

If we had the funding, the planning was done 20+ years ago, we could just do it and have a new planet. Course, the Chinese have been doing it the last 10 years while our money went to do absolutely nothing in Iraq. It's possible to start it, is it probable? Not with this Congress.

Interesting Helen
The Terra forming is giant leap thinking
I haven’t thought that far

I’m more of small step explorer
Like the rock hounding scan to Mars
that really as me
out of the curiosity factor
what’s there chemically?
How did the forming of Mars differ from earth ?
small step questions

But I would temper that curiosity
to what’s important at home base
politically/economically
if that could only be determined Ha Ha

From home base scientists have already discovered
an incredible amount in the vast cosmos.
The universe is chemically active.
I’m sure, in human evolution; we’ll end up exploiting it.
For good & for ill…mostly


have good day
Ed

I struggle with all the grand plans for outer space when we don't have a dream of getting the money to spend on it. This country is BROKE+++++++
If we colonize the moon/mars it will only be a few years before we trash the place. What a view we will have from earth!
Bob