Mission to Mars

Auditor #9 wrote:Also in London Indo today

Martian soil 'good enough for asparagus'

Hmm, I'd love to see packets of that in my local Superquinn. Could you imagine the food miles on a product like that!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/World/mhqlcwaucwkf/

Water found on Mars!

It doesn't sound as though you could make a cup of tea with it.

Does this mean that we could plant asparagus? Or is it much too cold.

I highly recommend this short "Planets for Dummies" link which has some beautiful photographs and clearly describes how the different types of planets are formed, and of what elements.

http://www.ztn.net/mars/solarsystem/

Stunning photos on that website cactus - from the Voyager mission to the gas giants. The landscape of Mars above looks very bright doesn't it so you'd wonder if it ever gets warm enough to grow stuff... the bbc news page a month ago reported that 'Martian soil could support life' - i.e. the asparagus reference.

Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life - or, at least, asparagus - Nasa scientists believe.

Preliminary analysis by the $420m (£210m) Phoenix Mars Lander mission on the planet's soil found it to be much more alkaline than expected.

Scientists working on the spacecraft project said they were "flabbergasted" by the discovery.

The find has raised hopes conditions on Mars may be favourable for life.

"We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life, whether past, present or future," said Tufts University's Professor Sam Kounaves.

Have you any idea what the reference to soil alkalinity means? I guess plants don't much like acidic soils but where do these conditions derive from? Acids and alkalines are related to oxygen quantities if I remember right. Anyway, we won't have to bring a load of soil there when we go colonising in two decades time.

Here are the nighttime temperatures



http://tes.asu.edu/webdata/may_temps.html

Bit frosty for much to survive there at night and peculiarly it's warmer at the north pole because of the season that it is on Mars, which is tilted towards the Sun just like the earth and experiences similar physical seasons. The blue areas are colder because the fine dust loses its heat quickly.

The daytime temperatures seem to vary wildly from place to place too - have a look - very cold but not unusual here on parts of this planet during the day ...



And of course there's already a forum out there discussing the possibility of life on mars
http://www.newmars.com/forums/index.php

With the conditions above it's not out of the question that a Mission to Mars could see eventual colonisation of the planet using a lot of the resources there.

The weather on Mars doesn't seem that different to an Irish summer. We should adapt easily.

Forget all that science stuff, this guy and his friends have "conclusively demonstrated" that there is intelligent life on Mars. He uses the ESA Mars Express mission photos to show evidence of artificial constructions on the surface of Mars in the Hale Crater.

Note: He scrolls forward to page 21 but it's really on page 27 - they've moved the damning photo



I'm telling you Rockefeller is up there with his people, the bastid

They should build a huge wall on the moon so we can all see what the Great Wall of China looks like from space.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:They should build a huge wall on the moon so we can all see what the Great Wall of China looks like from space.

lol

If you watch that you'll see that he shows con clusively that there are not only walls up there on Mars but fields, buildings, churches, roads, greenhouses etc. etc. etc.

Unfortunately you are at work and aren't allowed to watch that amazing youtube video - it'll blow you away man. The Rockefellas are there I'm telling ya - youngdan was right.

I would not discount the possibility of there being life on Mars at some stage in the past. Is there going to be life on this planet one years from now is the question not to mention 1 billion years.

I'm dreaming of a Red Christmas



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http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=2sCEQB5hJf4

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080929-mars-snow.html

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug up new clues to the red planet's wet past and has witnessed what could be a current water cycle in the form of falling snow, scientists announced today.

From its landing site near Mars's north pole, the lander has collected and analyzed soil samples that show minerals on Mars that are associated with liquid water on Earth.