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2009-03-20 Science & Technology

Photos from Phoenix lander show liquid water on Mars!

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Posted by 3dc 2009-03-20 08:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander
Commander K-9 perhaps?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-03-20 10:02|| 2009-03-20 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Cool. Maybe one day they will check the ice caps,,,

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2009-03-20 10:04|| 2009-03-20 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Based on the photo, it's Gatorade.

Posted by Nero Grinegum3006 2009-03-20 11:10|| 2009-03-20 11:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I strongly suspect a coolant leak, "Water on the leg", would be fresh water if condensed from air, and noticed if "Stepped In"?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-03-20 13:07|| 2009-03-20 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 There is no coolant on the Lander. The droplet images were enhanced with false color.

Posted by ed 2009-03-20 14:06|| 2009-03-20 14:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Tomorrow's lottery numbers printed in today's newspaper. Sheesh...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-03-20 14:22|| 2009-03-20 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Thoat piss?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-20 14:27|| 2009-03-20 14:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Good one, grom!!

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-03-20 17:04|| 2009-03-20 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Too bad they didn't photo the Martian that left it...

If you'll do the research, you'll find that life exists everywhere on Earth where it can, from deep ocean trenches to the higher leves of most mountains. I wouldn't be surprised to find "life" just about everywhere in our universe where it could develope. That includes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and possibly even in the OORT cloud. It may not be life as we think of it, but it does what life does - absorbs energy in some form, grows, reproduces, and mutates. Some of it's going to be downright staggering when we finally acknowledge it.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-03-20 17:18|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-03-20 17:18|| Front Page Top

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