Okay, the liquid water is beneath 1.5 km of solid ice at the South Pole, but it is there!
It’s also incredibly salty [one reason why it isn’t frozen], but its discovery opens up huge new areas of research because it means that Mars really was much wetter in the past. I’m no geologist or climatologist, but I can’t help wondering what happened to Mars to turn it into the barren rock it is now. If there’s any chance that our own Earth can go the same way, we need to know.
Please visit the New Atlas website to read the whole story.
And finally, from me, an apology. I’m racing a July 31 deadline so this blog, and social media in general, have taken a huge back seat. I’ll be more sociable again once I. Get.This. Job. Done!
cheers
Meeks
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July 28th, 2018 at 5:47 am
This really is exciting news!
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July 28th, 2018 at 11:24 am
lmao – this is more sci-fi than sci-fi!
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July 27th, 2018 at 8:59 am
Lack of atmosphere and low gravity on a small planet, I suspect. 🙂
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July 27th, 2018 at 7:40 pm
lol – you’re probably right about the gravity, but the lack of atmosphere could be a chicken and egg story. 🙂
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July 27th, 2018 at 5:02 am
go go go (at your jobs) x
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July 27th, 2018 at 7:44 pm
lol – thanks. Had a dental appointment today so had some time off. Would have preferred to work!
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July 28th, 2018 at 5:58 pm
God, don’t i feel your pain. This year (hurrah for middle age!) I experienced my first ‘routine’ root canal (apparently gritting one’s teeth in meetings is not to be recommended, and creates trouble further down the line) which developed into my first abscess whilst I waited for my appt – then my first crown. It’s been an ongoing saga that only completed last week, having started in earnest in February. hugely expensive, and rather unpleasant. Sending hugs.
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July 29th, 2018 at 9:13 am
Commiserations my friend. The tooth I finally had extracted a month? ago was a root canal+abscess that didn’t work. My fault for procrastinating too long but miserable nonetheless. Friday’s appt was ‘just’ a filling. lol
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