I've been hearing about water being found on Mars, so I did alittle research (I get bored easily, and love to read) and found some interesting things about Mars. There are skeptics or lunatics that are saying that NASA, JPL, and MSSS are covering up things about Mars, like images (MOC) and Rover and Spirit images. They are saying the images are tampered with, and what for? What is to hide? Anyways, I was looking at random Mars pictures and found some to be strange. Some things look like fungus, or trees or things that are not rock,sand or dunes. Anyone else here following the Mars bandwagon? Here's some interesting pics, I thought this looked like a giant tree top, people think its piled rocks or Cairn? Supposidly this tree is half a mile wide, which makes sense since Mars has weaker gravity, allowing things to grow taller. This looks like an animals intestine. Researchers say it has a shiny surface like glass.
I'm wondering how big a cannabis plant could get in a greenhouse on Mars, you know with the low gravity and all. Imagine a bud plant half a mile wide!
They recently have taken very high resolution pictures that almost inconclusively show frozen water on Mars, places where it used to flow around the frozen chunks, and even a few places where it looks like water may still be flowing, but on top of or through the other frozen water.
Yeah they found 'jets' that shoot out water or other liquid. There seems to be lakes with visible shorelines filled with liquid, could be water, and they find tree-like objects near it, just as tree on Earth would be near a lake.
why? they got no atmosphere, and I dont think it has magnetic fields protecting it from radiation like earth does. mars blows
That really doesn't matter, we could still live there. And check out the links. http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraforming.htm http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/background/terra.html *Shrugs* And I am sure we can learn a lot from Mars, even if it doesn't get Terraformed.
neither of those articles say anything about protecting from radiation today I watched a thing about the sun on the national geographic channel and they were talking about this time they were watching flares on the sun and there was one huge one directly in the center from our point of view which meant it was aimed right at us so they told this guy living in a space station go to get in the room with the most radiation protection. A large portion of canada lost electricity cuz of surges of power caused by the radiation storm and that guy in the space station is fine but they said that about as much radiation passed through his body as it normally does in week in only 2 days. even with our magnetic fields we get our ass kicked by radiation once in a while. Last year in physics class we had 2 nasa employees as guest speakers in the class and one of them talked about something that happened recently if I remember correctly he said that they monitored a certain type of radioactive particle projected from the sun at the speed of light almost and they were interested in this for two reasons. one it was proof you can accelerate mass to the speed of light almost and the type of radioactive particle or whatever it was would kill anyone in space that was in its path cuz our only radiation protection has no effect on it (they didnt say why)
They're planning a base on the moon, so if they are so helpless against radiation that you encounter in space why would they do that and why also would there be an international space station that is always manned and shuttle missions to space? Surely the radiation would kill them all? I've seen a piece of paper block some forms of radiation. Cool, no? Check out these links... http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/odyssey_radiation_030313.html http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_dangers_040120.html http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/17feb_radiation.htm
im not saying that radiation storms happen constantly when they do happen its extremely unlikely it will he towards earth or mars or whatever and even if it did it is unlikely it is a type of radiation that we cant block. I'm saying it can happen though, its like playing the lottery but you die if you win
I don't think living on other plants will be even remotely possible any time in the duration of my life, but I am still really interested in hearing about the possibilities
it's life jim! mars does have an atmosphere, its just pretty thin. havn't been to the moon since ninteen seventy what? ha, yeah right.
Anyone know why the GOVT is tampering with photos that NASA releases to the public (by tampering I mean they will blur certain spots that have geometrical patterns). What's to hide?
lookin at some of this stuff kinda makes me think "yeah, details, details. life abundant the universe over, and we shriek at finding suggestions and evidence on a neighbouring rock, when ours is so heavely populated!?" there are tonnes of clouds of alcohol and sugar and other substances that suggest the presence of biological life. the universe is so massive, that there litterally must be over 100 billion billion billion different species in it. there are millions of stars in our galazy and others that are stable enough, and in a quiet enough neighbourhood to harbour life long enough for it to evolve for far longer extremes than we have thus far. put it all together and you get some idea of what we could be dealing with. artist "aliens" flying around looking for a canvas?
When I was a child, I was fascinated by my neighbors pets, so I'd peer over to his yard to see weird animals. Maybe I still have this interest, cause it's interesting to hear that Mars has life, it's not big news or anything, just interesting. Some guy was talking about Waterbears (tiny bugs) that can survive below freezing and very very hot temperatures. It can even slow down it's metabolism so slow that it can't even be detected as alive, just dormant. He's saying that bugs like this can survive in rocks, ice, dust for who knows how long, they could have been on a meteor and landed here or mars, they would of survived the crash. He's not saying that these bugs are are alien life forms, no, he's saying that life will survive very extreme conditions, it's possible life could of moved around from place to place.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/107/1P137691267EFF2222P2363R1M1.HTML http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/123/1P139098156EFF2809P2267R2M1.HTML