"Water 'widespread' on early Mars " . . .I KNEW it!!

[annabanana]

The human race destroyed Mars First! We escaped to Earth just in time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7511523.stm
Water was once widespread on Mars, data from a Nasa spacecraft shows, raising the prospect that the Red Planet could have supported life.

Researchers found evidence of vast lakes, flowing rivers and deltas on early Mars, all of which were potential habitats for microbes.

They also discovered that wet conditions probably persisted for a long time on the Red Planet.

~snip~

"The big surprise from these new results is how pervasive and long-lasting Mars' water was, and how diverse the wet environments were," said Crism's chief scientist Scott Murchie, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.

[shadowknows69]

1. would not surprise me a bit anna

problem is we must have lost our space arks and we're running out of time to leave again before we turn this planet into Mars II.

[annabanana]

2. PLUS we don't have an arable destination anywhere in the neighborhood!

If we weren't destroying Earth so fast, we might be able to "regrow" an environment on Mars...

[Uncle Joe]

5. Wouldn't that be a trip if someday an archaeologist dug up

an ancient human space craft.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Carl Sagan...A True Genius

Several weeks ago, Discovery replayed the Cosmos series from the mid 80's...in it the late Carl Sagan all but predicted what we're learning from Pioneer.

Now the next question is the soil composition...digging down and seeing if there are microbes that has survived and adapted...then watch the fundies heads explode!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Ah, they'll just say that microbes don't count. You know they will