In my lifetime we've gone from 'there's no water on Mars' to 'there's tons of water all over the equator, evaporating into the atmosphere daily then freezing on the surface at night'. Which is pretty cool.
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Quick, send 200 billionaires to Mars to confirm this.
Just give first dibs to Nestle. They will find a way to get there.
I doubt it. There are no indigenous people there that rely on that water so nestle wouldn't be motivated enough to get it.
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But don't bring them back.
Careful! Iโm told those individuals are responsible for nearly all productive work on the planet.
Without their money
What would they do with their money on Mars?
Same thing they do here, hoard it
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Don't send Elon, though. I'd rather we not contaminate the planet.
Another one for the books!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_discoveries_of_water_on_Mars
I was about to say; isn't this about the dozenth time they've found water on Mars? It's not news anymore.
It's the location that's surprising.
Yeah, you'd expect milk there
There's an image on Wikipedia I can't find showcasing water on Mars.
A glass of water on a Mars bar.
Not the exact image but close enough
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I wonder: Is there any experiment done on Mars that uses Spectroscopy to detect water?
I'm thinking of something like this:
Due to Absorbance, wet air should absorb specific frequencies of light.
Wow that's incredible. We're still making such incredible discoveries despite Mars being so close to home.
Funny how we consider that "close" in terms of space. It's such a massive distance we can't really comprehend it and it's only the first planet out from us. Even at the speed of light it would take 3 minutes+ to get there! I'm no spacengineer but that's like 186k miles per sec. Or something. Space is big. Really big.
For comparison, you can travel around the Earth's equator several times per second at the speed of light.
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the frost patches cover a vast area of each of the volcanoes, and its water content could fill roughly 60 Olympic swimming pools, measuring close to 29.4 million gallons (111 million liters) of water.
Wow! That's far more than I expected. I think it's probably more than anyone expected!
Mars nipple
I've seen this dr.who episode
We should use the ice water to grow carrots and then look lovingly at the carrots and then hopefully we don't a zombies
Did you maybe a word?
wait til they find oil...
Oil discovered on Mars
US gov: So anyways, we've decided that we suddenly LOVE NASA and are going to divert 1T$ to it
Breaking news: terrorist operation discovered on Mars, potential of wmds.
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Isn't that Olympus Mons? 7 miles up?
Lemmy read the article for you. Yes.
The frost sits within the Tharsis area, the largest volcanic region on Mars, which hosts 12 large volcanoes. This includes Olympus Mons, which is not only the tallest volcano on Mars but is also the tallest peak in the solar system at the height of 18.6 miles (29.9 kilometers), making it around 2.5 times the height of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.
Had a hunch so I googled the size of Phobos just now: 27 by 22 by 18 kilometers. Olympus Mons is larger than the bigger of Mars' two satelites.
Though it's probably more that I severely underestimated just how tiny Phobos and Deimos are. They feel bigger in Doom...
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Is there any sign of bacterial life? Amazing find.
Pimple
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