Comments on: Lots of Water on Mars http://wanderingspace.net/2007/03/lots-of-water-on-mars/ Imaging the bodies of our Solar Sysytem Thu, 17 May 2012 13:35:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: thomas http://wanderingspace.net/2007/03/lots-of-water-on-mars/#comment-916 thomas Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:23:13 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=272#comment-916 i couldn’t agree more… part of my inspiration for doing this blog was to make a more “everyman” place for people to be inspired by current and past missions. they have discovered AMAZING things in our very own solar system and yet the average person doesn’t have any ideas that there are active volcanos anywhere other than Earth… and that we have photographed them! most people have no idea that water has been found in vast quantities in numerous places. my own wife was unsure of the answer when i asked how many other worlds have we landed astronauts so far. she knew we were on the moon but was also under the impression that at some point we got to mars as well. when i show people images of Io… they are shocked. i couldn’t agree more… part of my inspiration for doing this blog was to make a more “everyman” place for people to be inspired by current and past missions. they have discovered AMAZING things in our very own solar system and yet the average person doesn’t have any ideas that there are active volcanos anywhere other than Earth… and that we have photographed them! most people have no idea that water has been found in vast quantities in numerous places.

my own wife was unsure of the answer when i asked how many other worlds have we landed astronauts so far. she knew we were on the moon but was also under the impression that at some point we got to mars as well.

when i show people images of Io… they are shocked.

]]> By: Sir Charles W. Shults III http://wanderingspace.net/2007/03/lots-of-water-on-mars/#comment-914 Sir Charles W. Shults III Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:25:01 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=272#comment-914 It seems unconscionable that NASA has not yet made this clear- there should have been headlines proclaiming "Mars Had Oceans", yet to a man, everyone I have spoken with still thinks that it was always a dry, dusty, barren place. NASA has the absolute worst PR of any organization. So now we see that there is in fact a huge amount of water on the planet and that we will be able to live indefinitely without importing it. Will this see headlines? No, you can bet on that. It completely pulls the rug out from under 40 years of erroneous data and destroys the foundations of many papers and doctorates. So where does it go from here? It seems unconscionable that NASA has not yet made this clear- there should have been headlines proclaiming “Mars Had Oceans”, yet to a man, everyone I have spoken with still thinks that it was always a dry, dusty, barren place. NASA has the absolute worst PR of any organization.

So now we see that there is in fact a huge amount of water on the planet and that we will be able to live indefinitely without importing it. Will this see headlines? No, you can bet on that. It completely pulls the rug out from under 40 years of erroneous data and destroys the foundations of many papers and doctorates. So where does it go from here?

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