Water found on Mars - confirmed by NASA

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited August 2008 in The Clubhouse
From here
LOS ANGELES - The Phoenix spacecraft has tasted Martian water for the first time. The robot heated up ice in one of its instruments earlier this week. Scientists say the chemical test confirms the presence of ice near the Martian north pole.

Until now, the evidence for ice has been circumstantial. That was based on photos Phoenix took of a hard splotchy area near its landing site and changes it saw in a trench.

Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic on May 25 on a three-month digging mission. NASA on Thursday said it was extending the mission another two months.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited July 2008
    If they sprinkled some seamonkeys in there, they'd be Martians.
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  • jwhitakr
    jwhitakr Posts: 568
    edited July 2008
    Cool! That's gotta rank up there as one of the most important space discoveries of all time.

    NASA shoots ... and scores!
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited July 2008
    YEAPPY wow now how much of our tax dollars went to this discovery. And let me ask what did we get out of this. But its still cool. I still want a space rock.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited July 2008
    Lmao Now That's Funny Right There
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited July 2008
    This is huge right here folks! Mars having its own water makes it a ton easier for us to go there. It also increases the chances we'll find some life on there as well.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited July 2008
    I'm calling shotgun :)
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    edited July 2008
    Maybe someday they'll find intelligent life on Earth
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited July 2008
    Who wants to live in a world of red dirt?..............oh yeah, I guess I do.;)
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited July 2008
    How long would it take to get there..........no thanks.
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,907
    edited July 2008
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    If they sprinkled some seamonkeys in there, they'd be Martians.

    LOL! :D
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited July 2008
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    If they sprinkled some seamonkeys in there, they'd be Martians.

    I nearly spit beer on my keyboard! LOL!

    Big F'en deal, water on another planet. I'm sure there are thousands of planets with water on them.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,092
    edited August 2008
    We can't get along with with our own people on our own damn planet...so now we have to look for others to mess with!! I'd like to know the dollar figure for this "spectacular" find. How's about spending it to fix the mess we created here. Just a thought.
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited August 2008
    brettw22 wrote: »
    How long would it take to get there..........no thanks.

    Can you imagine if they sent families? The kids in the back saying "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?"
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited August 2008
    I think it takes a few months to get out there. Not horrible in the sense that you won't be 10 years older then when you left or something like that, but a few months in a spaceship might be a little rough lol.

    Unless of course they are like the space ships in WallE...
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited August 2008
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    Who wants to live in a world of red dirt?..............oh yeah, I guess I do.;)

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    I'll live here!!! :D

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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited August 2008
    Ron-P wrote: »
    I nearly spit beer on my keyboard! LOL!

    Big F'en deal, water on another planet. I'm sure there are thousands of planets with water on them.
    True, but given that it's right next door and is something they've been looking for it's kinda a big deal...
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited August 2008
    NASA might even have a colony on Mars....by 2100.:rolleyes:

    If I'm not mistaken, if launched at the correct time of the year, a ship can get to Mars in about 6 months, with current technology. If they get the new propulsion system up and running they should be able to cut that time in half.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited August 2008
    I think they said it's a 2.5 year trip, if the planets are aligned correctly. Then you have to stay long enough for the planets to re-align so you can get home.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited August 2008
    dkg999 wrote: »
    I think they said it's a 2.5 year trip, if the planets are aligned correctly. Then you have to stay long enough for the planets to re-align so you can get home.

    I saw on PBS(NOVA) it was a 18 month round trip, due to planetary alignment issues, iirc.

    Well it right in the middle.

    http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980419b.html

    90 day round trip with the new propulsion system:

    http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=5817
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited August 2008
    Well hell, with the current situation with the airlines, it could take me almost 90 days to fly from Chicago to Los Angeles :o
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited August 2008
    Erik Tracy wrote: »
    asgrdt02.jpg

    I'll live here!!! :D

    Red Dirt Shirts are awesome!

    I gotta find mine.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited August 2008
    Oh and as far as living on Mars, two words, DOOM 3.

    That is all.
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  • candyliquor35m
    candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
    edited August 2008
    If they have water and ice, then where are the boats and the fire to melt the ice. I'm not buying it.

    And no pilgrims there with a thanksgiving feast prepared. Highly suspicious.
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  • ahorvitz
    ahorvitz Posts: 235
    edited August 2008
    ND13 wrote: »
    NASA might even have a colony on Mars....by 2100.:rolleyes:

    If I'm not mistaken, if launched at the correct time of the year, a ship can get to Mars in about 6 months, with current technology. If they get the new propulsion system up and running they should be able to cut that time in half.

    You're correct. Six months is the minimum one way travel time for now (dependent upon planetary alignment) , powered by a chemical rocket, but there are many people working on faster ways to travel.

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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited August 2008
    ahorvitz wrote: »
    You're correct. Six months is the minimum one way travel time for now (dependent upon planetary alignment) , powered by a chemical rocket, but there are many people working on faster ways to travel.

    http://www.iirobotics.com/bot-news/robots-in-space/thruster-may-shorten-mars-trip-from-6-months-to-1-week-200709111219/

    Hell yeah!!! 1 week to Mars....sign me up, BABY!!!

    So what, to the Moon in less than a day, right???
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited August 2008
    ahorvitz wrote: »
    but there are many people working on faster ways to travel.

    Beam me up Scotty :p
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited August 2008
    That would be one hell of an experience. Cannot imagine.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited August 2008
    My wife and I had a discussion a while back. I told her that if I were ever given the chance to do some serious space travel, she'd have to get over it, because I'd jump all over the opportunity.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited August 2008
    I'd jump all over the opportunity.

    Yeah, and you wouldn't have to worry about falling. :p
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited August 2008
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    NASA? Pfft...do they think they're geniuses or something?
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