Lasker Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 fake image, is just publicity :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightsulpher var Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 :woot: Is that real?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted July 29, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2005 fake image, is just publicity :laugh: :laugh: 586292569[/snapback] and you know this because...? :huh: or it is a joke on your part? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonie Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Excuses my ignorance BUT....Isnt mars the place no astronaught can go because its too hot YET there is ice on it?....... :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted July 29, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2005 Excuses my ignorance BUT....Isnt mars the place no astronaught can go because its too hot YET there is ice on it?....... :huh: 586292595[/snapback] You are thinking about mercury or venus. Mars its farer away from the sun than earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonie Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 You are thinking about mercury or venus. Mars its farer away from the sun than earth. 586292599[/snapback] Venus is hotter than mercury but mercury is closer to the sun tho :huh: Ok forget i said anything... :D lol :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 I bet five bucks that this image will apear on ripgut's signature in four days or less :p 586292555[/snapback] Como ese buey, Carlos... something you predicted my plot :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten T Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 I bet five bucks that this image will apear on ripgut's signature in four days or less :p 586292555[/snapback] Allready has, he has rotating sigs now, i think at 30 sec intervals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Venus is hotter than mercury but mercury is closer to the sun tho?:huh:: Ok forget i said anything...:DD lol?:laugh:h: 586292623[/snapback] Venus is hotter because it's clouds trap in the Suns heats. Mercury's atmosphere is near non existant due to it's distance to the sun and its history of bombardment from asteroid and/or comets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AionXn_ Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Awesome! Soon...people might go there..and build facilitys...and soon it'll be like Doom3 :) Seriously, this is a great discovery, I hope they could go underground and see if there really is a "frozen sea". :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Wow those images are awesome! As AionXn said, this is a great discovery, maybe they have a whole species of alien living underground :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Veteran Posted July 29, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2005 I was watching the science channel yesterday and they were showing how life was found in Methane ice packs in the gulf of mexico some 2,000+ feet deep with no sunlight whatsoever, whoever says life can exist only on Earth is a total FOOL. 586292346[/snapback] I was watching that last night as well, very cool stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y0sh Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Wouldn't that ice be there from the comet that hit it? If it was a comet that struck Mars.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 I was watching that last night as well, very cool stuff... 586292751[/snapback] There trying to tap into to use as a energy source, problem is though with methane most experts believe it is a greenhouse gas, which is a :no: :no: for our planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriz Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Incredible (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Wouldn't that ice be there from the comet that hit it?If it was a comet that struck Mars.. 586292778[/snapback] who knows... the crater itself is more than likely a remnant of a comet impact. I could go into more detail on how the Entire solar system bodies are pocked marked (including earth) with craters from asteroids and comets. the frozen water in this one though is puzzling, i personally have no clue as to how it formed there. One thing about comets is that there are made of ice and currently (but not for long) other unknown elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Floyd Veteran Posted July 29, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2005 wow amazing picture that must be frozen this way for oh so many years.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfish Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 there is a theory that greenhouse gases used to heat up the surface will cause a melting of the polar ice caps and in turn produce an atmosphere. I was watching this on the science channel :wub: 586292261[/snapback] from what i know about mars, any attempt to build an atmosphere by this means would fail because the atmosphere would leak into space due to mars not having sufficient gravity. the belief was that mars was once an active planet, which would have made it more possible for an atmosphere to be maintained. the belief was that the atomsphere of mars thinned and water disappeared when the planet became dead. this is of course from my reading 10 or so years ago, new data may show differently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shining Arcanine Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) So much for the geniuses that discovered this a few years ago: http://home.aubg.bg/students/gsc040/images/uji_ne_mars.jpg all we need to do now is go there with a huge pollution machine and heat up the surface lol :) 586292232[/snapback] It is at the martian north pole. If we can find solid water there, we could probably find liquid water at the martian equator. from what i know about mars, any attempt to build an atmosphere by this means would fail because the atmosphere would leak into space due to mars not having sufficient gravity. the belief was that mars was once an active planet, which would have made it more possible for an atmosphere to be maintained. the belief was that the atomsphere of mars thinned and water disappeared when the planet became dead. this is of course from my reading 10 or so years ago, new data may show differently 586293370[/snapback] Mars has an atmosphere. Otherwise, Spirit and Opportunity would take pictures of space instead of the horizon. Edited July 29, 2005 by Shining Arcanine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 How do they know it's H2O and not some other liquid substance in solid form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnadog Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Whats the point of finding alien life forms? I mean, we find them, or we dont. If we dont, its a waste of money. If we do find them, they're less or more intelligent then us. If they are less intelligent, why should I care about them, and if they are more intelligent, they should have found us earlier then we found them, so what is the point of us searching for them? :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 How do they know it's H2O and not some other liquid substance in solid form. 586293448[/snapback] I thought they just made some spectral analysis on it. They can do that from space to at least analyse atmosphere composition, etc. And the rovers driving around do it all the time to check what mineral types they find. But on the NASA site, it said "it can't be frozen CO2" and I hope they just don't draw the conclusion from that? :p But maybe that's the only other possible thing that can be frozen and look like that according to current theories. It can't be too much after all, because a lot of stuff would evaporate too quickly. Methane can for example only be frozen up until -161 C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Yea, they can tell the composition of planets light years away doing spectrum analysis. I'm sure the same holds true for that little spot on Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonie Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Venus is hotter because it's clouds trap in the Suns heats. Mercury's atmosphere is near non existant due to it's distance to the sun and its history of bombardment from asteroid and/or comets 586292641[/snapback] Wow thanx u learn something every day ! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Holy **** this is detailed.http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsex...CraterIce_H.jpg 586292300[/snapback] Yeah, I was also surprised by this. :blink: I didn't know they had the equipment to do that stuff, but I guess they have since they launched the Mars Orbiter. I guess we know what that one is there for now. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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