Liquid water on Mars?

[schmenke]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mgs-20061206.html

Whattayall think? Intriguing, but personally, I think it's all a tad optimistic to think that liquid water can flow on Mars, even for a short period of time.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I blame global warming...........

[Eki]

I blame Bush. He's so evil that Mars is crying.

[BTCC Fan#1]

The Martian surface contains a high level of peroxides (i.e. bleach), so I wouldn't wanna drink any of this water if it does exist.. :p

Although i'd like it to be water I suspect the deposits might be made of something else, it'll be difficult to actually ascertain that without a lander or even a manned mission.

[AndySpeed]

I don't doubt at all the probability that water has, and maybe even is, still flowing on Mars. But I find it hard to get excited as the quantities are tiny, infrequent, and the planet is pretty much geographically dead.

[oily oaf]

Send up a couple of Oatabix with the next martian probe.
That'll get rid of it.

[Curryhead]

could be interesting, just wait till someone reckons theres OIL up there.......I said OIL, not OILY :)

[Powered by Cosworth]

Is there some law that everything on Mars other than Mars itself is water :S

It could be a rock for all we know

[schmenke]

That's what I figure. What looks like water in those NASA images could just as easily be a rock slide :s

[sonic_roadhog]

Sort of on the same subject, you know those sites that offer you a chance to buy a piece of lunar land? If NASA do go ahead and build a moon base, will they have to pay me rent if they happen to choose my 1 acre of land?? ;) :p

Sonic :)

[ian959]

Its just the Martians having some fun with NASA - they really know how to get those NASA boffins excited and then terribly disappoint them. :D

[harvick#1]

I wish I worked for NASA, easiest job in the US, stare at Mars and find any little difference. also debating whether Pluto is or isn't a planet

[Thor]

Why water? Maybe it's a brewfactory

[viper_man]

Apparently some scientists are saying that the gulleys could have been created by strong winds rather than water. But I did also read that the water could have flowed only a few years ago, if so, how did we miss it?

Maybe they can send the new planet finding probe into Mars orbit to have a look.

[tony_yeboah]

i think its a waste of money, concentrate are securing our own planets future before messing around with space programmes

[LeonBrooke]

I always thought it was way too cold for liquid water on Mars... maybe they are being a bit too optimistic. However, it is always possible.....

[veeten]

That's what I figure. What looks like water in those NASA images could just as easily be a rock slide :s

or maybe it's a waterslide. ;)

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!! :D

[Mark in Oshawa]

Tony, it is simple. By learning more about Mars, we can use data there to learn about our planet ya yob. If Martian temps have gone up about 1 degree C on average in the same time it did here, we know damned well it wasn't man's CO2 output causing global warming. OH yes, I forgot, people like you don't want the real answer to global warming, you just want socialist programs to tell everyone how to modify their life to a common code as set out by the political elites. Cant have hard science getting in the way of the common good can we?