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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Gwendolyn Bart has been my friend since the age of two.

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/060321_mars_water.html

AJ
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
Very cool! Way to go, Gwendolyn!
 
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Oh this IS cool!
 
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Interesting, certainly, but cool? If Mars has no water, that's not a good thing; that's bad.
 
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Well, but researchers are supposed to be looking at the data and questioning everything in search of the scientific truth. They still do have water in the polar ice caps, and there's certainly water elsewhere in the solar system like on that moon of Saturn.

It's just a case where, if people *want* to see something (like water) they will see it and look for all possible ways to make it be what they want it to be and not necessarily what the data always indicates. And the atmospheric conditions on mars are such that those gullies being formed by "liquid water" are questionable.

AJ
 
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051221_mars_dry.html

a related story...
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
That is very cool, AJ! I have astronomy envy! [Smile]
 
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
More from Gwen herself
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/032006a5_marswater
 


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