Tag: Mars

Seeking for life in all the wrong places

[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/06/Seeking-for-LIfe-in-all-the-Wrong-Places.mp3[/podcast] “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it,” was never actually said in the original series of Star Trek (in fact, it’s from The Firm’s popular parody song “Star Trekkin’”), but it still sums up the notion that we might not recognize extraterrestrial life when first we encounter it because it’s so different …

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Paging all those "Face on Mars" believers…

…there’s a new formation for you to sink your conspiritorially minded teeth into: a “doorway” in an unusually shaped mountain on the Red Planet. (That’s it at left.) (Via Futurismic.)

Paging all those "Face on Mars" believers…

…there’s a new formation for you to sink your conspiritorially minded teeth into: a “doorway” in an unusually shaped mountain on the Red Planet. (That’s it at left.) (Via Futurismic.)

Science fiction writers heading to Mars!

Well, sort of. Actually, it’s their words that are heading to Mars, as part of a DVD compiled by The Planetary Society and launched with the Phoenix lander, due to touch down next May.

No puddles now…

…but Mars may once have been covered by ocean.

No puddles on Mars

That story I blogged about postulating possible puddles on Mars? Fuhgeddaboutit. Turns out the photo in question comes from the side of a crater–on terrain too steeply sloped for puddles to be possible. So neither the depressions in the photo, nor the startling hypothesis put forward concerning them, hold water. Too bad!

Puddles on Mars?

Is this a picture of puddles on Mars? UPDATE: No, it isn’t. Turns out the terrain in question is on a slope too steep to hold water…something the researchers somehow failed to notice.

Mars…

…as art. Gorgeous! (Via Instapundit.)

New flag for a remade planet

Popular Science ran a contest and has come up with New Glory: A Flag for a Terraformed Mars. It’s red, of course…although, if it’s for a terraformed Mars, shouldn’t it have at least a little blue and green in it?

Vast caverns on Mars…

…if they exist, would be a great place to look for life and water. Now some researchers think they may have spotted them.

Huge water reservoirs hidden beneath the Martian surface?

The possibility has suddenly become far more likely. If…if…it pans out, a round trip to Mars just become both much more appealing and much easier. And the likelihood of life on the fourth planet much greater. (As an aside, note that the Mars atmosphere expert quoted at the end of the story is named David …

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The Viking probes 30 years ago may have found life on Mars..

…and then promptly killed it.