Posted on 04/14/2015 4:10:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
They found damp ground.
If there is abundant water in some form on Mars then we can send equipment that can convert it to drinking water, hydrogen fuel and oxygen.
With water we can grow food there, with hydrogen and oxygen we can power vehicles and will have fuel for returning spacecraft.
Water is the thing we need there that we cannot take with us.
Making electricity on Mars is easy, solar and nuclear...but water needs to be found there waiting for us.
If the ground is damp there must be mold there.
Long-term thinking: Find and divert an ice asteroid/moon into Mars atmosphere at the proper angle. Even tho most of it would “burn up” it would still add some necessary components to the Martian atmosphere. And some amount of water/ice as well.
I read there’s ice aplenty circling Saturn. There’s probably some in the asteroid belt, who knows that?
But i thought the science was settled about liquid water on Mars? :)
A few thousand of them possibly
Without a strong magnetic field (as Earth has), solar wind would just blow the additional atmospherics right off (over time)...
Our moon - and how our Earth-moon system came to be - is apparently quite unusual, and is responsible not only for our planet being so stable, but also for having such a rich atmosphere.
Even tho most of it would burn up it would still add some necessary components to the Martian atmosphere. And some amount of water/ice as well.
Without a strong magnetic field (as Earth has), solar wind would just blow the additional atmospherics right off (over time)...
Our moon - and how our Earth-moon system came to be - is apparently quite unusual, and is responsible not only for our planet being so stable, but also for having such a rich but complex-life-supporting atmosphere.
Once government is established Mars’ future is over.
Gene Hunt’s Cortina maybe leaking some coolant.
With the millions spent on this Mars rover, why didn’t it carry a microscope to examine anything it dug up?
That would be man made climate change therefore not possible for US to do it. The Russians or some other country could and it would be OK.
A clump of dehydrated water is proof positive of life. Yet, a baby, with a heartbeat, movement and all body parts can be dismembered with a vacuum cleaner, because after all, it’s not really viable life.
Uh huh.
There’s no life on Mars until Martin the Martian snaps a selfie with the rover
No, it isn't easy. In fact, power will be the key limiting factor preventing the early and/or easy (much less cheap) attainment of permanent presence on Mars. Solar flux is half that of Earth's, meaning that twice the mass of solar arrays have to be soft-landed on a planet with twice the gravity of the Moon, so evaluate that multiplicative factor of four by the rocket equation. It's ugly.
Nuclear could provide the requisite power levels, except that a space reactor of appropriate size (10 megawatt-class) does not exist -- and won't for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for the info.
It’s time to switch your bottles :)
I warned the poodles.. Dont pee there.
It does have some analyzing capability.
ON Mars?
Never mind
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