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Re: Curiosity Mission: One-Year Anniversary
« Reply #810 on: August 03, 2013, 01:12:35 pm »
Damn, it really has been that long, hasn't it? o.0
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Re: Curiosity Mission: One-Year Anniversary
« Reply #811 on: August 03, 2013, 02:03:48 pm »
One small tread for (a) robot.

One giant leap for SCIENCE!

And for one year, it has slowly crawled upon the surface of Mars.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: One-Year Anniversary
« Reply #812 on: August 03, 2013, 02:11:28 pm »
Happy birthday, Curiosity!
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Re: Curiosity Mission: One-Year Anniversary
« Reply #813 on: August 04, 2013, 09:18:37 am »
Race into more sunlight!
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #814 on: September 27, 2013, 04:48:42 pm »
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #815 on: September 27, 2013, 06:20:47 pm »
AMG WATER THAT IS SO AMAZING post to make it sound like a bigger thing than it seems. :)
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #816 on: September 27, 2013, 06:58:20 pm »
OK, I just had the best idea.

If sea levels rise on earth due to global warming, we should just ship the extra water to Mars, to make it habitable.

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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #817 on: September 27, 2013, 08:45:10 pm »
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #818 on: September 27, 2013, 10:16:35 pm »
....

But that would be collossally foolish..

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I mean, mars' habitability is more tied to the facts that 1) it isn't heavy enough to have the core dynamics needed to have a strong magnetosphere, and 2) even if you did fix that, it gets a very small fraction of the sunlight that the earth gets and 3) it wobbles and reels on its axis like crazy, so even if you somehow fixed the first two, your seasons are going to be all kinds of wrong!

A martian colonly could possibly be built there regardless, but terraforming mars is a very silly prospect, and doing it by shipping water from the earth to do it is radically nuts! :$
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #819 on: September 28, 2013, 02:51:46 am »
Also it'll cost so much.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #820 on: September 28, 2013, 03:12:39 am »
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #821 on: September 28, 2013, 06:01:55 am »
Quote from: LordBucket on September 28, 2013, 03:12:39 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on September 27, 2013, 04:48:42 pm
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/curiositys-sam-instrument-finds-water-and-more-in-surface-sample/

Meh.

They've been announcing ZOMG WATER ON MARS!!! since the 70s. They've "discovered" water so many times there's even a wiki page for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_discoveries_of_water_on_Mars
That's exactly what I was thinking. Well, minus the 'meh' perhaps :P.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #822 on: September 28, 2013, 07:22:35 am »
Quote from: LordBucket on September 28, 2013, 03:12:39 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on September 27, 2013, 04:48:42 pm
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/curiositys-sam-instrument-finds-water-and-more-in-surface-sample/

Meh.

They've been announcing ZOMG WATER ON MARS!!! since the 70s. They've "discovered" water so many times there's even a wiki page for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_discoveries_of_water_on_Mars

Most Past "discoveries" of water was all based on geographical/other features indicating there at least was water on mars once. This is I believe the first time actual water has been found.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #823 on: September 28, 2013, 07:33:02 am »
I'll prepare for an obvious answer (and/or I've just forgotten the reason at the moment) but there is ice on Mars right? Wouldn't it be a given that there's water then? I mean, I touch ice and my hand comes away wet, so I'd assume the dust around the polar caps are at least partially damp since they wouldn't be as cold as the ice itself.

Can ice have a surface with no moisture?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: WATER
« Reply #824 on: September 28, 2013, 07:34:46 am »
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In July 2003, at a conference in California, it was announced that the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) on board the Mars Odyssey had discovered huge amounts of water over vast areas of Mars. Mars has enough ice just beneath the surface to fill Lake Michigan twice.[34] In both hemispheres, from 55 degrees latitude to the poles, Mars has a high density of ice just under the surface; one kilogram of soil contains about 500 g of water ice. But, close to the equator, there is only 2 to 10% of water in the soil.[35][36] Scientists believe that much of this water is locked up in the chemical structure of minerals, such as clay and sulfates. Previous studies with infrared spectroscopes have provided evidence of small amounts of chemically or physically bound water.[37][38] The Viking landers detected low levels of chemically bound water in the Martian soil.
Actual water has been discovered quite a few times.

Quote from: Mech#4 on September 28, 2013, 07:33:02 am
Can ice have a surface with no moisture?
If the surface pressure is low enough, water goes straight from ice to vapour, and disappears into the atmosphere.
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