Wow.
Opportunity, the Mars Rover that the geek community hasn’t turned into a Woobie, was poking around the other day and just let NASA know, “Hey, I, like, totally found some gypsum deposits that were obviously placed there by water. But, like, no big.”
Of course, that’s actually a pretty big deal, for two reasons: one, it means we might be able to put that water back, which means we’ll be more able to terraform it, which means we can do Red Faction cosplay on Mars. The second is that it’s a clue to the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, or at least what’s left of it. Also, this proves definitively that there was water on Mars, which will help us understand more about the Red Planet.
Come on, NASA, let’s stop screwing around and start putting a Mars mission together. It’ll be fun!
[ via, well, NASA ]
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Bullshit. That’s part of an ancient wall of a Martian house and we all know it.
Oh, please.
Martian society had advanced well beyond drywall.
I did a little thing on this over at my (very amateurish blog) — more exciting than this is some news from back in August that there might actually BE water on Mars right now. So check it out if you’re interested (excuse the random ad (I need to upgrade) and self-plug).
[theindelible.wordpress.com]
/self-plug
//shows self out