Nasa scientists find evidence of flowing water on Mars

[Dexter]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars

Liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars, according to researchers who say the discovery raises the odds of the planet being home to some form of life. The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian terrain that can reach hundreds of metres downhill in the warmer months, before they dry up in the autumn as surface temperatures drop. Images taken from the Mars orbit show cliffs, and the steep walls of valleys and craters, streaked with summertime flows that in the most active spots combine to form intricate fan-like patterns. Scientists are unsure where the water comes from, but it may rise up from underground ice or salty aquifers, or condense out of the thin Martian atmosphere.

[EC]

Well - Mars IS going to have life.

Us.

Liquid water, enough of an atmosphere to be of some use? We can live there. Not easily, no, but it is now definitely possible and a sight easier than it was a few days ago.

[kevindavis007]

Time to get our ass to Mars

[aligncare]

Well - Mars IS going to have life.

Us.

Liquid water, enough of an atmosphere to be of some use? We can live there. Not easily, no, but it is now definitely possible and a sight easier than it was a few days ago.

I hope I'm around (quite likely) for the first manned landing on Mars. What a day that will be. Surely there are microbes on Mars. A whole new way of looking at the universe and our place in it.