NASA has confirmed the existence of ice on Mars, the first time water has been found on another planet confirming years of speculation as to the possiblity of water on the Red Planet. As the awful movie Semi-Pro says every four seconds, “Get excited!”
And, as Bloomberg so kindly reminds us, “Water in liquid form is an essential ingredient for life.” Thanks, Bloomberg. Pretty sure anyone with a grade school education knows that.
Yes, the Phoenix probe that landed on the red planet a few weeks ago did, in fact, turn up what it was looking for the whole time: ice.
NASA scientists believe that more than one-fourth of Mars has ice below the surface.
Tremendous, ice on Mars. Now we wait for little green men to attack us.
[via Drudge Report]
This is not “the first time water has been found on another planet”; water ice has been
known on Mars for some time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#cite_note-kostama-12)
This is the extent of this “article?” I go to read up on a fascinating discovery and I get a fifth graders homework assignment? I’m going back to print!
This actually could have been an interesting article of some sort if the author wasn’t such a negative and awful writer. How does he keep a job? I mean come on, anyone this bad should just keep their mouth shut at the very least. Wasn’t this supposed to be a news article?
Agreed…..how did this get linked on the front page of google’s news? Did the person linking articles not even look to see what it was? As someone above said…..5th grader work here. (no insult intended to the 5th graders!)
oh wow, an article more about how sarcastic and witty the author thinks he is, and less about ice on mars.
It’s a drudge report….journalism is not a job requirement there.
Congratulations NASA, pretty cool to fly up there and find ice.
First ice, then life.
Who is publishing this rubbish ? There’s no evidence. Who can say its not solid carbon dioxide warmed by the lander ? Cant remember its sublimation temp.
Wow Nicolas (author). Good job! BTW: Could it be that what we’re seeing here are the first indications of where the US educational system is going to take us?
The arrogance of the human race is impressive. In one camp, we cultivate this incredibly narrow assumption that because OUR form of life requires water, every other form must also require water. And then of course there is the camp that somehow has manufactured the delusion that we could possibly be the only life form in the Universe. Infinite number of stars. Infinite number of planets. We’re the only one with life. Yeah, uh huh.
If we have the imagination to create a way to travel to another planet, albeit in our own back yard, we probably should allow for the possibility that we don’t know everything about the nature of life. At this point, the makers of the average sci-fi film has a more open mind than the people doing the “real” science.
i think my 12 year old could have written a better article than this. and what did the movie plug have anthing to do with it? good you didnt like the movie get over it i could have told you it was trash bc WF is in it. but really….HOW DO 8 SENTENCES CONSTITUTE AS AN ARTICLE???
Congrats, NASA!
this blog is like so many others, its useless.
Why did you find it necessary to write a mocking comment about proverbial “little green men” merely because the Mars Rover has found evidence of ice on the surface of Mars?
What’s your problem?
There is little doubt that non-human life forms exist throughout the Cosmos. Some, including our antecedents, possibly, have probably visited Mars. We will visit the red planet (again) in the near future.
I hope the human species does encounter others soon. Her present selfish and suicidal trajectory is not to be admired. Something must shake to the foundations smug and ignorant people like you if Gaia is to survive the present human infestation.
The space program is one of the few good things to come of the American experience. Mockery is not in order. Nervous jokes about “little green men” are not in order.
“Tremendous, ice on Mars. Now we wait for little green men to attack us.”
You mean “Grey” men, of course.
–ted
Negativity evrywhere! c’mon folks get real. As intellegent humans (maybe)we should be ashamed of ourselves to even read this trash and consider the author anymore than ignorant. There is no doubt in my mind that our society has become so self serving and blind to others accomplishments that when it comes to congratulating others for their discoveries, their brain goes into free fall. Maybe it’s jealousy. Some feel there is a need to mock the discoveries of others. The author needs to report only the facts and not their snide opinion. It sounds to me that he never got to 5th grade in the first place. Forget about him!
What we have here is some guy who can make a webpage and has a domain name. This is a perfect example of the difference between journalists and bloggers. To be a blogger, you need no journalistic skills.
This is also a good example of google news being broken.
seriously, guys: you got your news, you got a little humor. if you want a dissertation go call nasa.
I’m really not sure why we are the primary link for this on Google News. We’re a technology and gadget blog, and cover random bits of news like this when they’re interesting.
The idea in a post like this is not to report the entire story (astrogeology isn’t anybody’s specialty here) but simply to make our readers aware of something they might not have seen yet and direct them towards the story.
So why did you refuse to publish my comment?
D. Grant Haynes
IIRC, you submitted the same comment twice? Sometimes the comment system holds onto duplicate comments and long comments for manual moderation. I thought you had hit submit twice, but if it was another comment I’m sorry.
Time and time again I read things like “Water in liquid form is an essential ingredient for life.” and wonder, how does anyone know this?
I mean seriously there are billions and billions of galaxies what makes you think another species galaxies away can thrive on a substance other than water, what makes people think there are not hundreds if not thousands of undiscovered elements out there.
I think water may be to our knowledge the most likely or most ideal ingredient for life, but I hardly find it neccassary.
How can we assume all life needs water, if we haven’t even traveled outside of own galaxy yet.
I’m disappointed in this article. There is no additional information inside the article than what is in the heading.
Do some research and certainly take some lessons on how to write an article.
Damn it Cohagen! Give the people the air!
The photo looks doctored. It look like they spread powdered salt (NaCl) and then scraped it around to make it look like it was there from the beginning. We should know how NASA operates. We are responsible for uncovering scientific misconduct by fabrication and falsification. I’ll tell you how desperate NASA is to get positive publicity. They are co-sponsors of a small time balloon and air show in Waxahachi and Midlothian Texas. Two dirt farming communities that barely even register on the scale for viable life forms.
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/NASAcert.html
SRD-BCCM
http://www.bccmeteorites.com
So it might just be “ice” on the surface… but what if I dig down 1000 feet… where the pressure/gavity of any planet… will cause heat… and it becomes underground LIQUID water…
… who know what will be growing in that.
How do they know it isn’t dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, which sublimes?
My hope is that Kuato can solve this problem.
If anyone cares to know, please read the Vedas. These ancient texts from India have all what the scientist are just now understanding. The vedas tell of life on every planet and universe. The whole material manifestation is made up of earth, water, air, fire, and ether. In addition to these gross elements there are two subtle elements. So according to the elemental constitution of a particular planet or universe, beings assume bodies in accordance. The vedas also stipulate that the whole material nature, made of uncountable bhramandas or universes have beings crawling on every available space. This may sound strange but recent findings by scientist confirm living entities being discovered in the deepest recess of the oceans and other unimaginable places. According to the Smithsonia Magazine, scientist have found germs alive in artificial diamonds manufactured under the highest pressure and heat imaginable to humankind.
There are beings operating on different frequencies and dimensions that gross elementals like us cannot see. The Vedas give 14 levels of dimensions of material existence. Our dear plane Earth, which is like a grain of sand on the beach of the universal creation, is located around the middle of this 14 level division. So there are beings in grosser bodies than us and beings in subtler bodies also. With our tiny brain faculty we are trying to understand what is beyond us. However with guidance from higher sources one can theoretically understand some workings of nature.
Mars is between 206,669,000 kms and 249,209,300 kms away from Earth. So question. What real meaning does the discovery of water have for us today?
Are we going to carve it up and bring back to earth?
Plant seedlings and watch them being torn out by the Martian winds?
Spend billions to create a small nursery protected by a perspex dome, and send a small party of people to eat the vegetables in order to justify the project?
Send a small group of collonists to set up base by diverting funds from helping the poor, cleaning the earth’s environment, etc.?
The unavoidable fact is that to set up base would be next to impossible. Firstly there is a hostile climate, the inability to relaunch from the Martian surface, the need for spares and supplies, the toll of space travel and reduced gravity on the human body, etc.
The impact of this find can only be nil.
Our excitement level should barely stir.
Maybe we are interested but this discovery has no importance for this generation or any other generation.
But the world is in a mess.
Correct. All the more reason for the Lord Jesus Christ to return.
The only real hope if only people would humbly read their Bibles.
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i think it is not ice. it was cover by earth after days
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i think it is not ice. it was covered by earth after days.does somebody noticed the picture of sol 24 is not sharp.why ?covered with earth by wind.
Come on guys, this isn’t an “article”, its a news snippit. It wasn’t meant to help you graduate from college, or give you every little detail. if you want more of a read, head over to Nasa’s website. Why so critical about this?
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