Ice lake found on the Red Planet * PIC *

[brigden]

Someone's going to start bottling it.

"Mars Water"

"Vodka, distilled with water from Mars."

 

[Wag]

Martian Slurpees! And I can save money on the red food coloring to boot!

 

[eLiu]

Was this some recent formation or something? If it's highly visible how come we've never seen it before? lol

 

[IamElectro]

Of course its cool its ice.

 

[brikis98]

that's pretty sweet.

i wonder if the rovers are anywhere near there.

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: MoobyTheGoldenCalf

Originally posted by: ScoobMaster

Originally posted by: sonz70
Is that picture in the article real? or artist impression

Appears to be the real deal!

Real Deal

Wow..thats an awsome picture

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: eLiu
Was this some recent formation or something? If it's highly visible how come we've never seen it before? lol

visibile based on the technology being used.

Previously were never had close in observations of the planet.

What observations that existed were either to far away and/or not looking in the proper area.

Example:
Driving along the street, do you see what is in the bottom of every pothole or just know that it is a pothole.

Now walk the same path looking down instead of forward. Entirely different perspective.

 

[ScottyB]

I got into a discussion the other day with my roommate about alien life. He stated that he doesn't believe that life exists outside of earth and that he is "one of those people that needs to see something before [he] believe it." He is also an extremely conservative christian, which I thought was ironically humorous.

 

[NakaNaka]

Wow what a pic. It looks so fake even though it's real.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: brikis98
that's pretty sweet.

i wonder if the rovers are anywhere near there.

They would never be able to climb into the crater, and the move only a couple feet every day.

 

[thegimp03]

that's awesome...

 

[conjur]

Sweet pic!

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: brikis98
that's pretty sweet.

i wonder if the rovers are anywhere near there.

They would never be able to climb into the crater, and the move only a couple feet every day.

Yup.

In addition, the entire distance the rovers have moved so far is less than that crater's width.

 

[madworm]

Remember that movie total recall?

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: brikis98
that's pretty sweet.

i wonder if the rovers are anywhere near there.

They would never be able to climb into the crater, and the move only a couple feet every day.

those rovers are tougher than people originally gave them credit for... they expected them to be dead after a few months (sand would cover their solar panels) but they are still going strong and gathering more and more useful data. If they were close, i wouldn't be surprised if they could reach (slowly) that water, but for all I know, they may be on the other side of the planet.

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
I got into a discussion the other day with my roommate about alien life. He stated that he doesn't believe that life exists outside of earth and that he is "one of those people that needs to see something before [he] believe it." He is also an extremely conservative christian, which I thought was ironically humorous.

Even if there is other life, we are still special. Just take a look at boobs. If there is a God he loves us. Oh yeah, beer is great too. Beer and boobs!

 

[Toasthead]

sweet pic!

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: brikis98

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: brikis98
that's pretty sweet.

i wonder if the rovers are anywhere near there.

They would never be able to climb into the crater, and the move only a couple feet every day.

those rovers are tougher than people originally gave them credit for... they expected them to be dead after a few months (sand would cover their solar panels) but they are still going strong and gathering more and more useful data. If they were close, i wouldn't be surprised if they could reach (slowly) that water, but for all I know, they may be on the other side of the planet.

The rovers have traveled about a mile since they've been on Mars. This crater is probably hundreds if not thousands of miles away. They'd never reach it.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: eLiu
Was this some recent formation or something? If it's highly visible how come we've never seen it before? lol

visibile based on the technology being used.

Previously were never had close in observations of the planet.

What observations that existed were either to far away and/or not looking in the proper area.

Example:
Driving along the street, do you see what is in the bottom of every pothole or just know that it is a pothole.

Now walk the same path looking down instead of forward. Entirely different perspective.

Oh I thought they meant we've always seen it but just misinterpreted the image or something along those lines :/

But yeah...very cool

 

[Analog]

hi res