Water on Mars

[Ray?]

Scientists confirm evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars:

http://io9.com/5827462/scientists-confirm-there-is-liquid-water-on-the-surface-of-mars

Who'd a thunk it?

Cheers

Ray

[renormalised]

Damn, I was wondering where I left my bottle of Perrier:):P:P

[CraigS]

Its interesting that the abstract of the paper of the research cited in the article, seems somewhat at odds with the journo spin of:



From the research paper extract:



The HiRise website also quotes the same above abstract.

Spectrographic confirmation would establish the evidence more firmly.

There is firm evidence of trace amounts of solid water on Mars, but to date I don't believe direct confirmation of liquid water has been obtained.

If they've found this evidence then that's a terrific discovery. The problem is that if exists in a liquid state, it probably doesn't hang around long enough in that form to obtain the exact culprit in action.

Much has been written about this, but there are many other plausible alternatives for the gullies on Mars including fluidisation of dry material (water ice and solid CO2).

Cheers

[renormalised]

What do you expect...have you ever known a journo to get it right, or actually write what they had read or were told:):P