The Phoenix Mars Lander has dug up some sort of white substance.
From Nasa.
“Two scoops into the soil we see there’s a white layer becoming visible in the wall of the trench,” said Carol Stoker of NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., a member of the Phoenix science team.
Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith said, “We’ve had an impassioned discussion of whether that may be salts or ice or some other material even more exotic.”
Concentrations of salts can be indicators of formerly wet conditions. One goal for the Phoenix mission is to determine whether the ice beneath the surface of far-northern Mars ever thaws during long-term climate cycles.
See it there, on the upper part of the hole? Definitely a white substance.
What do you think;
Salt?
Ice?
Some other material even more exotic?
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Tags: ames research center, Mars, NASA, peter smith, phoenix mars lander, two scoops
Kenski wrote,
My guess it’s down to some enterprising Columbians.
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Link | June 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Pribek wrote,
Maybe, the Crosby, Stills and Nash tour bus broke down on that spot at some point.
Link | June 5th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Pat Darnell and Tweezers wrote,
You know what I think?
For those of us on the lam hiding in theaters, Pretty soon we will have to suffer through more Brit dry humor, it will be: “Martini, two scrapes of Martian ice, stirred not shaken.” ..or some such crazy shyte and John Lydon will roll n it, or Paul McCartney will try to snort it up his ample nostril… Jeeesh!
The three most important things to happen in last fifty-three years is: [according to me]
1) mapping the human genome
2) Hubble Telescope [fixed and working] discovering new galaxies
3) And further development of Bucky Balls
..so my answer is three, something [wishful thinking] new and exotic, so when I’m 88 I can tell little ones about the great big Bucky Balls of Mars.
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Pat Darnell and the Rhyming Quatros wrote,
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle
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Link | June 6th, 2008 at 2:37 am
Pat Darnell and the Rhyming Quatros wrote,
I say three cheers for us straight guys:
sorry, I can’t seem to control myself tonight… err this morn.
Pat Darnell and the Rhyming Quatros’s last blog post..A Ticket, and P J for Obama, a mamma, and a tasket too…
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Pribek wrote,
I never knew that Dan Quayle was so galactic.
Link | June 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am