Life finally found on Mars

[DBT]

Apparently speculation has been mounting and an announcement has now been scheduled;

''Speculation is mounting among space watchers that NASA is about to announce it has found life on Mars.

The US space agency is to host an urgent press conference at its Washington headquarters where it will announce that is has solved a major mystery about the Red Planet.''

Jim Green, Nasa's director of planetary science and Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, will be among the experts present at Monday's event.

''It is believed the agency could announce that it has discovered microbial life on Earth's near neighbour or alternatively that it has found evidence of flowing water.

The latter theory is due in part to the fact that Lujendra Ojha, of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, will also be present at next week's press conference.''

 

[Malintent]

It was water... they knew that there was a process by which water moved on the surface of Mars for over 4 years... but now they have sufficiently evidenced the mechanics of it to state it as a 'discovery'. Salt water flows on Mars, under certain conditions.

 

[DBT]

Rock farms irrigated by sand streams, Mars style:

 

[DBT]

The hunt for signs of life on Mars has been on for decades, and so far scientists have found only barren dirt and rocks. Now a pair of astronomers thinks that strangely shaped minerals inside a Martian crater could be the clue everyone has been waiting for.

In 2008, scientists announced that NASA’s Spirit rover had discovered deposits of a mineral called opaline silica inside Mars's Gusev crater. That on its own is not as noteworthy as the silica’s shape: Its outer layers are covered in tiny nodules that look like heads of cauliflower sprouting from the red dirt.

No one knows for sure how those shapes—affectionately called “micro-digitate silica protrusions”—formed. But based on recent discoveries in a Chilean desert, Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer, both of Arizona State University in Tempe, think the silica might have been sculpted by microbes. At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December, they made the case that these weird minerals might be our best targets for identifying evidence of past life on Mars.

If the logic holds, the silica cauliflower could go down in history as arguably the biggest discovery ever in astronomy. But biology is hard to prove, especially from millions of miles away, and Ruff and Farmer aren’t claiming victory yet. All they’re saying is that maybe these enigmatic growths are mineral greetings from ancient aliens, and someone should investigate.

 

[DBT]

Interesting rock formations:

 

[Angry Floof]

Clearly the remains of a crashed star destroyer.

 

[DBT]

Clearly the remains of a crashed star destroyer.

Yes, indeed. Her name is Mother Nature.

 

[SLD]

The original pic looks to me more like a set of twigs and berries. But hey that's just me!

SLD

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Rock formation or a crystal formation on sands? And why does the sand look moist?

 

[DBT]

And why does the sand look moist?

Low gravity physics, probably. Sand that would slide freely under Earth gravity binds on Mars and forms ridges and mounds that would not on hold on Earth, plus extremely low temperatures, including the presence of ice.

 

[DrZoidberg]

"Cover me. I'm going in....to the vagina"

 

[DBT]

Rock,wind art, spires and arches garden, Mars style;

 

[DBT]

Warped corrugated rock.

 

[fromderinside]

Warped corrugated rock.

Probably evidence of realtor activity. Looks like its been flipped.

 

[DBT]

Corrugated sheet rocks in the making;

 

[blastula]

Rock farms irrigated by sand streams, Mars style:

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The Mars women probably do their laundry along the sand streams.

 

[DBT]

I'm sure they do, using their upper four arms for rinsing while sorting out sand fleas with their mandibles.

 

[fromderinside]

I thought Martians have a suction based physiognomy (appearance).

 

[DBT]

I thought Martians have a suction based physiognomy (appearance).

The suckers practically got wiped out by the Sand Worms during the building of the canals, but some suckers did make it to Earth as refugees. Suckers have thrived on Earth ever since...you may have heard the old saying; 'there's one borne every minute''

 

[DBT]

Network of boxwork polygons;