Space Sciences Liquid water on Mars?

[Second Summer]

NASA is doing a press conference later today headlined "NASA to announce Mars mystery solved". Based on the names scheduled to be on the press conference panel, the suspicion is that the announcement has to do with a discovery of liquid water on the planet. So it's a bit exciting, as liquid water could lead to a later discovery of microbial life, and so far we have no evidence of life beyond our own planet.

 

[beancounter]

Don't believe the lies of the Liberal media!

RUN! The Martians are coming!

But seriously...

Liquid water would be a terrific find, as it would that implies life could live, or had lived there.

If microbial life was found, they wouldn't announce it..at least not in the U.S., as that would cause a mass theological panic. "You mean Earth and humans aren't the center of the universe?"

 

[Blobbenstein]

microbes could have been thrown from Earth, by a meteor strike, and make their way to Mars, so it wouldn't prove that live had arisen off Earth.

 

[beancounter]

microbes could have been thrown from Earth, by a meteor strike, and make their way to Mars, so it wouldn't prove that live had arisen off Earth.

But if you're going to go down that road, I could use the meteor analogy to say that life originated elsewhere in the solar system and a piece of "insert planet name here" hit earth during it's early formation and started life from microbes traveling on it.

 

[Blobbenstein]

But if you're going to go down that road, I could use the meteor analogy to say that life originated elsewhere in the solar system and a piece of "insert planet name here" hit earth during it's early formation and started life from microbes traveling on it.

yes. I have read of ideas that life could have started on Venus.
And then there is the panspermia idea.

 

[Amy SF]

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