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And Where There’s Water…

Posted by John on December 6th, 2006 at 11:38 pm · 7 Comments

I got emotional when I saw this picture (and read the revelation in this press release):

Goodbye, Mars Global Surveyor, you served us well.

Does anyone else get weepy over science, or am I just crazy that way?

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7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 PodMonkeys // Dec 7, 2006 at 5:51 am

    Snazzy! I had read a some good articles on “possible” water flows on Mars not all that long ago, but this looks even more promissing! Yeay Science!

  • 2 nee // Dec 7, 2006 at 6:35 am

    Hey, that’s some interesting news and pics!

    I haven’t gotten weepy yet over science though I have over nature.

  • 3 Miko // Dec 7, 2006 at 8:09 am

    not weepy, no, but when they announced colonization, I got super excited :-D

  • 4 Elise // Dec 7, 2006 at 11:24 am

    Ok, guys, for the accountants on the board that never did very well in science classes, what are the logical benefits of this discovery?

    Other than the fact that it’s just kind of cool, that is.

    Is the idea that it will give us an insight as to how our own world was formed? Or is the idea that this means there is a bit of evidence that maybe life exists elsewhere?

  • 5 Mark G. // Dec 7, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    Wow, that was simply AMAZING! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING, JOHN!

  • 6 John // Dec 7, 2006 at 10:14 pm

    Elise, your second guess is spot on. :) Our best hopes for finding life (even really tiny life) is where there is liquid water. This includes Jupiter’s ice-covered moon of Europa (which may have liquid water underneath the surface, heated by Jupiter’s tidal forces) and perhaps in subsurface aquifers on Mars.

  • 7 John // Dec 7, 2006 at 10:24 pm

    Miko, I got excited about the moon colony, too, though part of me is praying, “please don’t f*** this up, please don’t…”

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